Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer

Category: Software Development

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Referral Reward: € 1,500

Employment Type: Employment contract

Time Allocation: Full Time

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Remaining positions: 1

Who is this role for

You will work closely with our Marketing team led by Stefan (Head of Growth) to develop products that support our growth efforts.

What you'll do:

  • Design, build, and scale server-side applications that support ambitious growth initiatives, particularly in handling high volumes of data and user traffic.
  • Develop visually appealing and highly functional data-heavy web applications.
  • Optimize backend systems for performance and scalability, ensuring robust infrastructure and efficient data management.
  • Integrate third-party APIs and external services to extend and enhance application functionalities, ensuring seamless data synchronization and system integration.
  • Deploy applications on Linux servers, with a strong emphasis on AWS for cloud services.
  • Monitor and optimize server performance to maintain high uptime and quick load times, addressing any issues proactively.
  • Rapidly prototype MVPs and lightweight PoCs to validate ideas based on growth hacking strategies and data-driven hypotheses before committing to full-scale development.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Designers, Product Managers, Developers, Analysts and Marketers.
  • Provide technical expertise and guidance to non-technical team members.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices.
  • Suggest and implement improvements to our web development processes.

Your qualifications:

  • At least 3 years of experience in JavaScript development.
  • Strong proficiency with modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries.
  • Proficient in server-side development with a strong preference for Node.js.
  • Proven experience in scaling projects, including:
  • Handling high volumes of users or data.
  • Expanding infrastructure.
  • Developing and scaling online marketplaces.
  • Implementing a wide range of features and business enhancements.
  • Strong ability in Linux server setup, configuration, and maintenance.
  • Experience with cloud services, particularly AWS, is required.
  • Ideally, candidates will have a comprehensive full stack background. Applicants with primary strength in backend development and some front-end skills are also considered.

What's in it for you:

  • Pioneering work at the forefront of Big Data, Infrastructure and Machine Learning that sometimes means relying on academic papers as our only formal guiding tools in moving onwards.
  • The chance to shape an original product in a fast growing company, backed by VC investors
  • A merit-based, no BS, value-oriented and particularly collaborative work environment
  • Fair compensation, the possibility of ESOP and upward salary growth based on performance.
  • Groundbreaking professional challenges and the autonomy to try stuff for the very first time, no matter how experienced you are.
  • The promise to use the right tool for the job to be able to channel your efforts on what can’t be compensated for — the best use of your skills and abilities.
  • The space to try new things out (your way) paired with the freedom to make reasoned decisions and own them.

What we expect from you in return:

  • High speed and uncompromising quality in your work
  • A growth mindset, able to capitalize on unprecedented contexts through your skills and abilities
  • An appetite to grapple with a variety of technical challenges
  • The ability to quickly and effectively evaluate technical tradeoffs and translate them into relevant scenarios
  • Consistent performance over time coordinated with a matching set of values
  • Strong problem solving skills that enhance the way you deal with the tension between brief and shipping
  • Aversion to the idea of any customer or colleague struggling with what you delivered
  • High tolerance for ambiguity, marked by your ambition to push forward with incomplete information
  • Resilience, especially in front of failure, that is always paired with pioneering work