Senior Go Developer (Payments) at Aghanim (Lisbon, Portugal)
Aghanim· Lisbon, Portugal·
Role details
Summary
Design and build reliable backend services in Golang for billing and payment processing systems. Integrate with payment providers, ensure transaction reliability, and maintain high standards for financial operations.
Job description
Aghanim is an integrated commerce, liveops automation, community engagement, and payments platform for video games.
Mobile games have traditionally depended on app stores for distribution, payments, and player relationships. We believe there is a better way. Aghanim helps game studios build direct relationships with players, sell directly, and build their future on their own terms. Today, more than 100 games worldwide are already building this future with Aghanim.
Our team brings together people across Los Angeles, New York, Seoul, Beijing, London, Lisbon, Belgrade and other locations around the globe, with deep expertise in gaming, fintech and technology. We move quickly, keep communication direct, and focus on getting things done. We believe the best people thrive when they have autonomy, ownership, and a stake in the company's success.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Go Developer to design and build reliable backend services for billing and payment processing systems. This role requires strong hands-on experience in Go and proven ability integrating with payment providers and financial infrastructure. You will work on systems responsible for payment processing, billing logic, provider integrations and transaction workflows, ensuring reliability, scalability and correctness of financial operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services for billing, payments, and transaction processing
- Integrate with external payment providers and financial APIs
- Develop reliable transaction workflows, including retries, reconciliation, idempotency, and failure handling
- Write maintainable, well-tested production code
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve payment and transaction flows
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend development experience in Go, including concurrency and production service development
- Hands-on experience with payment or billing systems, including provider integrations, subscription billing, or reconciliation workflows
- Experience with REST APIs, asynchronous processing, and event-driven systems
- Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
- Strong understanding of transactional systems, consistency, idempotency, and failure handling
- Ability to own and debug production code in live payment environments
Important: Hands-on experience with payment or billing systems is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with multiple payment providers
- Experience with subscription billing systems
- Experience working with high-load backend systems
- Knowledge of distributed systems architecture
- Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Experience with observability tools (metrics, tracing, logging)
Why Join Us
- World-class team – work alongside experienced professionals from around the globe who have built products used by millions of players
- High growth, high impact – be part of a fast-growing company where ideas turn into products and reach customers in days, not months
- Autonomy and ownership – we trust people to make decisions, take initiative, and drive results
- Modern tools and technology – use AI, automation, and modern tools as part of your everyday work
- Equity – participate in the company's growth and long-term success
Why work at Aghanim
- Culture: Fast-moving, lean startup with flat structure; founders are hands-on and previously built a global company (Xsolla).
- Remote/Hybrid: Headquarters in Los Angeles (Woodland Hills area) with additional offices in New York City and Lisbon. Roles likely hybrid/remote-friendly depending on function.
- Engineering Culture: Heavy focus on payments infrastructure, data engineering, and platform scalability. Team includes engineers from Xsolla, Microsoft, and Liftoff.
- Growth Trajectory: Joining at very early stage (Seed) with significant funding from top VCs – high potential for ownership and impact.
- Notable Perks: Not explicitly stated, but typical for seed-stage fintech/gaming startups – equity, flexible hours, and direct exposure to founders.