Senior Software Engineer, Go/Laravel Lisboa

Senior Software Engineer, Go/Laravel
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Title: Senior Software Engineer (Go, Laravel)

Department: Engineering

Location: Remote within EU/UK

About Block Labs

Block Labs is a leading force in the Web3 space, incubating, investing in, and accelerating
- tier fintech, crypto and i
Gaming projects. With a mission to shape the future of decentralized technology, we partner with visionary startups to raise funding, refine
- market fit, and grow their audiences. Our diverse team drives innovation, using deep industry expertise and an extensive network to empower the next wave of
- driven companies. At Block Labs, we’re passionate about turning bold ideas into breakthrough success.

About The Role

We are building a distributed,
- oriented i
Gaming platform from the ground up using a modern tech stack led by Go and supported by Laravel. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield services at the core of a scalable, resilient, and performant system and help define the backbone of a next generation digital gaming experience. You will join a senior team working on challenging problems with modern tools in an environment that values autonomy, quality, and
- term thinking.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build distributed backend services that form the foundation of our platform.
• Develop core platform features and integrations with third party providers such as games, payments, and wallets.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code in Go as the primary language supported by Laravel.
• Participate in architectural design and technical decision making.
• Collaborate closely with product, frontend, and QA teams to deliver full end to end solutions.
• Work in a cloud native environment using modern Dev
  Ops practices and containerization technologies.
• Ensure high levels of reliability, scalability, and performance across services.

About You:

• You have 6 or more years of experience in backend development, preferably in high traffic or distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in
  Goas a primary backend language. Experience withg
  RPCis highly valued.
• Experience with
  Laravelis a plus, but not required.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and
  - oriented architecture.
• Experience integrating and working with third party APIs and services.
• Comfortable working with cloud platforms, containerization and CI/CD.
• Commitment to software quality and engineering best practices.
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills.
• i
  Gaming experience is a strong advantage but not required.