Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Cluj)
Salary not listed • Cluj, Romania (Hybrid) • Full-time
Posted 2y ago
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Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
Full-time
Categories
Machine Learning Engineer
About the job
Cresta is expanding its operations to Romania and building a tech hub, with early joiners playing a key role in establishing the engineering team and shaping the future of the site. This role is part of a remote-first environment, offering opportunities to work with a global team across Europe, the US, and Canada. Over time, the company aims to create a co-working space in Romania, moving towards a hybrid environment. As a Software Engineer, you will play a substantial role in the Cresta engineering team, focusing on building and continuously improving the Cresta platform to support new product requirements. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop high-quality, well-designed, reusable, and well-tested system components, while staying closely aligned with customers and their requirements, analyzing technical trade-offs and owning customer-facing deliverables. The role also involves optimizing platform design and implementation for lower latency, higher throughput, better reliability, and cost reduction, demonstrating engineering best practices, and growing into technical ownership of significant parts of Cresta's product and platform.
Responsibilities
- Build and continuously improve the Cresta platform to support new product requirements.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop high-quality, well-designed, reusable, and well-tested system components.
- Stay aligned with customers and their requirements, analyzing technical trade-offs and owning customer-facing deliverables.
- Optimize platform design and implementation for lower latency, higher throughput, better reliability, and cost reduction.
- Demonstrate engineering best practices and uphold high standards within the team.
- Grow into technical ownership of significant parts of Cresta's product and platform.
- Contribute to building a best-in-class product and company.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in relevant domains.
- Proficiency in designing and maintaining clear and robust APIs based on strong understanding of various protocols including gRPC, REST, WebSocket, etc.
- Experience handling real-time streaming data (audio or video) with high throughput and low latency.
- Familiarity with high-performance database schema design and query optimization.
- Experience with containerized application deployment using Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Benefits
- Base salary
- Equity