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Senior Backend Engineer - PerfectScale by DoiT (Romania)

DoiT International

South Africa

Remote

USD 60,000 - 100,000

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

An innovative technology company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their remote EMEA team. In this role, you'll work on core backend solutions for a pioneering Kubernetes optimization platform. You'll collaborate with product managers and developers to implement features and maintain high-quality code. This position offers the chance to influence product decisions while working with cutting-edge technology in a flexible environment that values professional growth and inclusivity. Join a diverse team that celebrates innovation and creativity, making a real impact in the cloud-driven industry.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO
Flexible Working Options
Health Insurance
Employee Stock Option Plan
Professional Development Stipend

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of backend development experience with Go, Java, Rust, or Python.
  • Experience with high traffic distributed systems and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with teams to deliver elegant solutions for complex problems.
  • Write clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices.

Skills

Backend Development
Golang
Java
Rust
Python
Distributed Systems
Data Pipelines
Database Optimization
Microservices
DevOps Best Practices

Tools

Docker
Kubernetes
GitOps
CI/CD

Job description

Remote EMEA

Location

Our Senior Backend Engineer will be an integral part of our EMEA engineering teams. This role is based remotely as a full-time employee in the UK, Ireland, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden and Spain. We are also open to contractors in East Europe and Portugal.

Who We Are
DoiT is a global technology company that works with cloud-driven organizations to leverage the cloud to drive business growth and innovation. We combine data, technology, and human expertise to ensure our customers operate in a well-architected and scalable state - from planning to production.

Delivering DoiT Cloud Intelligence, the only solution that integrates advanced technology with human intelligence, we help our customers solve complex multicloud problems and drive efficiency.

With decades of multicloud experience, we have specializations in Kubernetes, GenAI, CloudOps, and more. An award-winning strategic partner of AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, we work alongside more than 4,000 customers worldwide.

About DoiT's PerfectScale Platform

DoiT offers PerfectScale, a pioneering Kubernetes optimization and management solution that empowers DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering teams to optimize cloud performance while minimizing costs. We combine advanced AI technology with SME-human expertise to help organizations achieve peak Kubernetes efficiency.

The solution delivers a seamless onboarding experience, an intuitive UI, and a powerful autonomous optimization engine that ensures Kubernetes environments run efficiently with minimal human intervention.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working on the core backend solutions, powering PerfectScale data pipeline and business logic. You'll be collaborating with product managers, and developers from other teams and also participate in product-making decisions.

Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems.
  • Implement features from the proposal through design and implementation to maintenance. You're expected to propose things that you think can be an excellent addition to the products.
  • Write clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices, you will also ensure clean code and best practices while performing code reviews for your peers.
  • Improve the health of the codebase. We’re mindful of accumulating technical debt. We dedicate one day per week to housekeeping.
  • Provide feedback. The team plans and discusses the upcoming work. We provide feedback to each other, trying to find challenges and unknowns as early as possible.
Qualifications
  • Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
  • 6+ years of backend development experience (Go/Java/Rust/Python).
  • 3+ years of commercial Golang experience.
  • 2+ years of experience with high traffic / high load distributed systems and data pipelines.
  • Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance / schema / query optimization. ClickHouse and Postgress are a big advantage.
  • Experience developing enterprise-grade SaaS products, microservices and containers.
  • Experienced working with microservices and containers (Docker).
  • Experience and passion for distributed systems design and infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with modern Devops frameworks and best practices - Docker, K8s, GitOps, CI/CD.
  • A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
  • Ability to effectively operate with flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment.
  • Self-organized, goal-oriented, self-motivated individual who is confident, thorough and tenacious.
Bonus Points
  • Hands-on, production experience with K8S.
  • Hands-on, production experience with cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Experience with data engineering - streaming and batch processing, spark, tryno, iceberg, clickhouse, parquet.

Be your truest self. Work on your terms. Make a difference.

We are home to a global team of incredible talent who work remotely and have the flexibility to have a schedule that balances your work and home life. We embrace and support leveling up your skills professionally and personally.

What does being a Do’er mean? We’re all about being entrepreneurial, pursuing knowledge, and having fun!

  • Unlimited PTO
  • Flexible Working Options
  • Health Insurance
  • Employee Stock Option Plan
  • Professional Development Stipend
Many Do'ers, One Team

DoiT unites as Many Do'ers, One Team, where diversity is more than a goal—it's our strength. We actively cultivate an inclusive, equitable workplace, recognizing that each unique perspective enhances our innovation. By celebrating differences, we create an environment where every individual feels valued, contributing to our collective success.

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