Backend Engineer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

Job summary:

Kvarner Digital is hiring for the Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This role is fully remote within Croatia. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

Day to day:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources

Requirements:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Compensation and benefits:

• Private medical care
• Extra annual leave days
• Meal vouchers
• Flexible hours
• Annual bonus

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Croatia.

Start: Immediately.

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