Staff Backend Engineer

Team: Engineering

Location: Serbia, South Africa, Romania, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Ukraine, Greece, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Portugal

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

What hats will you wear:

• As a hands-on leader from the IC track you will design, develop, and maintain backend services using our core stack (Java/Python/SpringBoot/FastAPI/Postgres/Kafka) alongside the rest of the engineers on the squads
• As the lead engineer you will be working closely with the broader cross-functional team (Product, Design, Operations, Sales) to build reliable and delightful products that address the real pain points of businesses operating in the growing remote talent market. You need to feel comfortable working with both technical and non-technical audience, within and outside of the company
• As an architect you will be in charge of making pragmatic yet sustainable architectural discussions, choose when and how to strangle functionalities off of our legacy monolith, establish domain boundaries, and choose the appropriate distributed system patterns
• As a leader in our Engineering Community of Practice, you will play a pivotal role in our adoption of modern engineering practices - TDD, real continuous delivery, SRE culture, API-first design to enable externally available dev APIs - and master the art of refactoring to gradually introduce them without stop-the-world year-long migrations
• As a mentor you will upskill less senior engineers by writing quality code yourself, leading our weekly learning sessions, conduct quality code reviews, encourage best practices by automatic trivial controls

What You Bring:

• 8+ years of backend software development experience
• Strong professional experience with Python (Django, FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks)
• Strong professional experience with Java, preferably using Spring Boot
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL); exposure to NoSQL databases is a plusFamiliarity with unit testing, integration testing, and test-driven development (TDD)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and modern development workflows
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to performance and scalability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Why Remofirst:

• Fully remote role
• Opportunity to work on global-scale systems and products
• Exposure to international teams and modern engineering practices
• High ownership and autonomy in a fast-growing startup environment
• A strong culture grounded in speed, ownership, trust, transparency, customer obsession, and excellence.
• Real problems, global impact, and the chance to help redefine how the world works