Senior Backend Engineer, Node.js - Remote

About us

Our advisors handle retirement planning, investment management and estate coordination for about 900 households. Most of the day-to-day work involves portfolio rebalancing, tax-loss harvesting and quarterly reviews.

About the role

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer, Node.js - Remote. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Remote position. Most of the team is in Bucharest, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

What you'll be doing

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.

Required qualifications

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

Pay and benefits

Rate: RON 21,000 - RON 28,000/month

• Private medical care.
• Training budget.
• Meal vouchers.
• Flexible hours.
• Remote work allowance.

Applications are reviewed weekly.

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

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Ene Consultanță.