Backend Developer

About us

Our website and apps help renters search listings, schedule tours and submit applications. Revenue comes from a mix of advertising, affiliate commissions and a premium tier. Founded in 2003, we now have 70 employees.

The role

Croft Media is looking for a Backend Developer to join a small, steady team. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Romania, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. You will need at least 3 hours of overlap with US Pacific time.

Day to day

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

About you

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

What we offer

Salary range: RON 11,500 to RON 14,000/month

• Wellness allowance.
• Flexible hours.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Annual team retreat.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Croft Media, LLC.