🎯 What You’ll Actually Do
Architect, refactor, and scale high-load distributed systems where failure is expensive and latency matters.
Lead by example - code when it counts, review relentlessly, debug production issues, and mentor through action, not meetings.
Tune performance until it screams: reduce latency, increase throughput, eliminate bottlenecks.
Make hard calls: architecture trade-offs, rewrites, tech debt prioritization - and own the consequences.
Work side-by-side with Product Owners and Solution Architect. No handoffs. No silos. One goal.
Jump into incidents, own RCA end-to-end, and make sure the same issue never happens twice.
Push a PoC-first mindset: test fast, fail smart, scale what proves value.
Build systems that survive growth, pressure, and time - resilient, observable, and clean.
🧠 What You Bring
5+ years of backend experience. You’ve built and operated real systems, not just shipped features.
Deep in Node.js / TypeScript. Comfortable with async flows, gRPC, Kafka, and distributed systems pain.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS - you know how things break in production.
You can sketch a microservice architecture from memory - and explain where it will fail.
Obsessed with performance, observability, and efficiency. You measure before you argue.
You think like an engineer, decide like an architect, and act like an owner.
You’ve led engineers - not by title, but by competence, example and trust.
Bonus: experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
🔧 How We Work
Speed > perfection. Ship, measure, iterate.
Impact > output. One scalable fix beats ten “good enough” ones.
Depth > talk. We respect people who know their stack.
Direct > polite. Call out problems. Fix them. Move on.
No heroes, no silos. We win as a team or not at all.
🔥 What We Offer
Fully remote. Work from anywhere in Europe.
Unlimited vacation + paid sick leave. We trust adults.
Quarterly bonuses. Real impact, real money.
Learning budget for courses, certifications.
Ownership and autonomy. You decide how to make things faster, cleaner, better.
No bureaucracy. No filler. Just meaningful engineering work.
👉 Apply if you’re a deeply technical engineer growing into leadership - someone who doesn’t want to stop coding, but wants their impact to go beyond just commits.
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Salary: $135,000 - $170,000
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