Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Emplifi, a company empowering leading brands to enhance their digital customer experience, as a Backend Engineer. You will maintain and extend the platform, monitor system performance, write clean code, review code, contribute to the Scrum process, and continuously grow your skills. The role involves collaboration with a supportive team, focusing on building a reliable and scalable system. Emplifi offers a collaborative and friendly work environment that values creativity and a good sense of humor. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience with Node.js, a solid understanding of clean code principles, and familiarity with database systems. The company provides various benefits, including unlimited vacation, sick days, home office options, professional development opportunities, and a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with Node.js
• Solid understanding of clean code and testing principles
• Familiarity with database systems
• Experience using Git and modern development workflows

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend our platform with new features
• Monitor system performance and logs, address issues, and build tools for observability
• Write clean, well-tested code
• Review code to uphold our quality standards
• Actively contribute to our Scrum process
• Continuously grow your skills to advance your career and move the platform forward
• Optional: Contribute to frontend tasks if you’re interested
• Collaborate with a team of supportive professionals
• Have fun, explore, and experiment

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with distributed systems or high-throughput environments

Benefits

• Unlimited Vacation, 3 sick days, home office
• Internal tech talks, Udemy courses, and workshops
• Maternity and Parental Benefit
• Meetups & conferences
• Multisport card
• Agile and open-minded culture, with high levels of trust and flexibility
• Possibility to learn new and cutting-edge technologies in an environment that encourages new ideas
• Possibility to work from offices in Prague (Karlin), Brno (Impact Hub), Pilsen (Roudná)
• Chance to compete in a ping-pong tournament or to enjoy table football, PlayStation , Ergonomic exercise, or run with colleagues, and nearly all year-round grilling parties and other team-building opportunities