(Senior) Backend engineer (data platform)

The Company

Databox, a fast-growing SaaS company that helps other companies monitor and improve their business performance, is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join our data team and be responsible for developing and continuously improving our data platform and the data solutions that power our analytics products.

The Team

Our Product and Engineering team has 50 members with extensive experience in UI/UX design, frontend/backend development, product growth, and analytics. Under the hood, our backend is built as a set of focused services - handling everything from heavy data crunching and real-time rendering to core application logic.

Within the Data team, we build primarily with Node.js/TypeScript, alongside supporting services in other programming languages. PostgreSQL serves as our primary operational database and also acts as the backbone of our distributed warehouse solution. Our analytics engine and storage layer operate on billions of data points in a highly reliable, multi-tenant architecture designed for performance at scale, leveraging modern data technologies such as DuckDB, Kafka, Apache Iceberg, and object storage.  As our needs evolve, we keep exploring new tools and ideas and love working alongside people who are willing to try new things. Mentoring, code reviews, writing tests, and engaging in blameless postmortems are only some of our core engineering principles. We celebrate achievements, encourage personal growth, structure knowledge sharing, and have fun doing it all.

The Work

• Be actively involved in planning, implementing, and maintaining modern container-based backend solutions 
• Write, review and maintain code primarily in Node.js/TypeScript and related technologies
• Leverage AI-driven development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and development velocity
• Collaborate closely with our product managers and engineers on the best user experience possible
• Cooperate with other teams to come up with the best technical solutions
• Help triage and resolve issues, bugs, and security vulnerabilities
• Develop as an individual and directly contribute to a growing team
• Participate in our on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 reliability and availability of our data systems.

The Skills

• 3+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer
• Experience with  Node.js/TypeScript. Since new programming languages can be learned quickly, we care much more about your general engineering skills than knowledge of a particular language or framework
• Experience working with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
• A solid understanding of OOP, functional programming and SOLID principles, RESTful APIs, caching concepts, the HTTP protocol, and general web architecture
• Have a good understanding of software development fundamentals (architectures, design, processes)
• Ability to write a clear and efficient code that performs at scale
• Ability to learn quickly, take initiative, work independently and handle the pressures of an increasing level of responsibility
• Enjoy data pipelines, infrastructure, and/or distributed systems work
• Enjoy working across layers of the stack and doing all it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally
• Research, share, and recommend new technologies and trends

The Benefits

We encourage our employees to challenge themselves, learn from each other, grow in their roles, and balance their work with life. We offer competitive compensation, an opportunity for personal and professional development, and a positive team atmosphere.

Databox is a remote-friendly company with over 80 team members working across the globe. This position, however, is best suitable for a candidate located near Ptuj, Slovenia, with the possibility of working from home a few times per week.

If you think we might be a match, send us your CV and a short explanation of why you think you are the right person for this position.