Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join a top-rated AI-powered customer engagement platform as a staff backend software engineer to work on strategic projects, drive technical design, and up-level the team. You'll have opportunities to collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide direction for your team, and contribute to code review.

Requirements

• 8+ years of previous software engineering work experience
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (ideally Scala and/or Java)
• Experience leading multi-person projects that have high complexity in terms of deep technical or product challenges, uncertainty, concurrent work streams, or cross-team and cross-functional dependencies
• Extensive experience with Elasticsearch and/or other relevant technologies like Postgres
• Desire to work in a highly remote/distributed but collaborative environment
• A track record of delivering highly valued features, focusing on operational excellence, and mentoring engineers up to senior level
• Willingness to take on-call responsibilities
• Fluency in English (verbal and written)
• Legally authorized to work in the EU

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop solutions to scale a complex platform that reaches millions of users
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, product, and design to conceptualize and build new product features
• Provide direction for your team and guide standards across the Engineering organization
• Improve the engineering processes, tooling, and efficiency
• Contribute to the code review process by offering suggestions for improvement, helping to define and enforce coding standards

Benefits

• Competitive salaries & meaningful equity
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life/Risk Assurance
• Meal Allowance: 8.55€ per day
• Balance Days (additional paid holidays)
• Paid Annual Leave (22 days)
• Public Holidays (14 days)
• Paid Sabbatical
• Complete laptop workstation