Staff Engineer

Department: Core Business Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Belgrade, /, Remote, Remote

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape the technical direction and roadmap of Core Backend, building shared services, libraries, and developer tools used by engineering teams across Tabby.
• Identify common challenges across teams and turn them into reusable solutions that improve developer productivity, system reliability, and security.
• Lead the design and evolution of shared backend capabilities, including event-driven communication, application-level encryption, and sensitive data protection.
• Develop internal engineering tools such as our Service Catalog, API Registry, SLO platform, and AI-assisted development tools, making them useful and easy to adopt.
• Drive complex initiatives from problem discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and production validation, coordinating work across engineers and teams.
• Work closely with teams using our tools to understand their needs, support integrations and migrations, and use feedback to guide further improvements.
• Stay hands-on with Go, validate performance and failure scenarios, and build observability and recovery mechanisms into systems that other teams depend on.
• Raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, clear technical decisions, mentoring, and documentation that enables others to own and extend shared systems.

What you’ll bring:

• 7+ years of backend engineering, including building and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong Go experience and a track record of staying hands-on in senior technical roles.
• Deep expertise in distributed, high-load systems. Our stack includes PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP, GitLab and microservices.
• Proven ownership of complex initiatives from design through production, including architecture and technology decisions with lasting impact.
• A strong grasp of quality, security, observability and operational excellence.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and contributing to product development.
• The ability to influence decisions across teams and explain technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team or organization.
• Strong English and a proactive, autonomous approach to ambiguous problems.

What we offer:

• Full-time B2B contract
• Fully remote setup
• Up to 20% tax allowance
• 22 paid leave days annually
• Stock options (ESOP) in a fast-scaling, pre-IPO company
• Flexi benefits you can use for wellness, travel, or learning
• Work alongside a high-performing, international engineering team in a global fintech unicorn