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
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