Senior Backend Engineer (Java, PHP) – Romania

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the project team of our Client, a fast-growing company from Silicon Valley, that develops a mobile app that provides millions of families in over 150 countries with services such as private location sharing, location history, drive details, crash detection, roadside assistance and help alerts through our free and paid membership subscription. Their customer base currently exceeds 66 million monthly active users. The company is at the forefront of a broad range of technologies (mobile, location services, hardware sensors, machine learning, big data, etc) in pioneering its family-centric platform.

Role Overview:

You’ll be working with a close-knit backend team of Cloud, Java, Python, and PHP engineers, all working closely to ensure our internal platform and systems are up to date in terms of technology, upgrades and security patching. This team will work closely with our Staff Engineers and other company Engineers to ensure we’re working on the most important and critical projects to help the company on its journey to 150 million users.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar quantitative field or the equivalent industry experience
• 5+ years experience with Java (bonus for Spring Framework experience), Python, PHP, CakePHP, and queuing/stream technologies such as Kafka and NSQ
• 3+ years experience with relational or non-relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc
• Experience working with AWS products (EC2, EKS, DynamoDb, Kinesis, SQS)
• Proficient in microservices and horizontally scalable architectures
• Practical understanding of how to deploy and maintain systems, ideally with Kubernetes
• Adaptive to working across programming languages regularly
• Experience decoupling large monoliths into discrete services
• Experience with high-scale, low-latency systems
• Previous experience effectively working with a US-based team asynchronously
• Good interpersonal skills with a highly collaborative working style. Good verbal and excellent written communication skills.
• Proficiency in the English language

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with our distributed teams across North America on Cloud and Software projects
• Work with our Platforms team to decouple PHP services into new Java microservices Fix bugs in our Java and PHP services
• Work on projects that ensure our Platform and Services remain scalable, reliable, and resilient for our users and internal customers
• Enable company-wide adoption of new technologies, frameworks, libraries, and internal tools
• Propose upgrades and updates to ensure scalability, reliability, and resilience
• Help our Test Engineering team to automate services and component validation further

We offer:

• Competitive salary with the regular review
• Vacation (up to 20 working days)
• Paid sick leaves (10 working days)
• National Holidays as paid time off
• Flexible working schedule, remote format
• Direct cooperation with the customer
• Dynamic environment with low level of bureaucracy and great team spirit
• Challenging projects in diverse business domains and a variety of tech stacks
• Communication with Top/Senior level specialists to strengthen your hard skills
• Online teambuildings