🎯 What You’ll Actually Do
Architect, refactor, and scale a platform with dozens of services and high transaction volume.
Be the technical backbone of the squad: code, review, debug, mentor — daily.
Tune performance until it screams: latency, throughput, bottlenecks, efficiency.
Make tough calls: design trade-offs, rewrites, tech debt that actually matters.
Own incident response and RCA: fix the root cause and prevent repeats.
Push PoC-first thinking: test fast, scale what works, kill what doesn’t.
Work side-by-side with Product and Architecture: one team, one goal.
🧠 What You Bring
5+ years backend experience building and operating production systems.
Strong in Node.js / TypeScript, async flows, service-to-service communication (gRPC/HTTP), Kafka.
Real production exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, AWS.
You understand distributed systems in practice: retries, idempotency, backpressure, failure isolation.
You lead engineers by competence and example (even if your title wasn’t “lead”).
Bonus: ClickHouse / PostgreSQL / MongoDB / DynamoDB.
🔧 How We Work
Depth > talk. Competence wins.
Reliability is a feature. Observability is non-negotiable.
Direct feedback, low ego, high standards.
No heroes, no silos.
🔥 What We Offer
Fully remote (Europe).
Unlimited vacation + paid sick leave.
Quarterly bonuses.
Medical insurance for you + partner.
Learning budget.
Autonomy, ownership, meaningful platform work.
👉 Apply if you’re the kind of engineer who runs toward complexity - and wants leadership without losing hands-on sharpness.
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