Backend Engineer

About us:

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

About the role:

We need a Backend Engineer. This is a full-time position based in Bucharest, Bucharest. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. The work is on site and cannot be done remotely.

In your first few months you will:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.

About you:

• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Pluses:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Why work with us:

Salary range: RON 17,500 - RON 21,000/month

• Private medical care.
• Life insurance.
• Annual bonus.
• Flexible hours.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Romania.

Start: Immediately.

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