Senior Backend Engineer (remote from EU)

IMPORTANT: This is a remote job position for someone located in the European Economic Zone. All applicants from outside this area will be discarded.

At SIROC we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our worldwide team. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a necessary role in our team, focusing on building web applications and working together with our engineers, project managers, designers, and venture investors. Your ability to learn and stay up-to-date with the latest frameworks and community updates will play a key role in the success of our experimental SaaS and B2B products and the digital AI transformation of our customers.

What You'll Do

• Design custom REST API services.
• Design backend application infrastructures in coordination with DevOps engineers.
• Design and implement custom SQL and nonSQL database schemas.
• Optimize database queries for a performant backend application.
• Implement custom application business logic and negotiate with front-end and data engineers' data schemas.
• Build deployment and CLI pipelines.
• Ensure scalability, flexibility, and maintainability of the implemented applications.
• Proactively assess and ensure code quality by using appropriate tools and principles.
• Proactively communicating with colleagues to refine application design.
• Writing meaningful, clean code and doing code reviews.
• Assisting your colleagues to achieve their goals.

What We Expect From You

• Fluent in English with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• University degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar is highly desirable.
• Proficiency in working with Git, defining pipelines, GitHub actions, and continuous integration.
• Proficiency in working on Python, pyenv, PIP, and its IDE environment (PyCharm or equivalent).
• Expertise in building APIs using FastAPI or similar.
• Expertise with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, TimescaleDB, ...).
• Expertise with non-SQL databases (MongoDB).
• Experience with frameworks such as Redis, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Celery, or others.
• Experience in Docker, Docker-Compose, and DevOps is highly valued.
• Experience in Kotlin or Java is valued (Spring Boot) but not required.
• Ability to motivate, encourage, persuade, increase cooperation, and reduce tension among team members.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, and execute within a high-pressure environment.
• Fully remote position in a fully distributed team.
• Flexible schedule (you define when you want to work).
• A competitive salary in the industry based on your experience and skillset.
• A brand new MacBook Pro (or equivalent) as a working laptop.