Staff Software Engineer, Backend (bucharest)

Cresta Cresta · Vertical AI · Romania · Remote · Engineering

Staff Backend Engineer focused on building and optimizing data storage solutions (Postgres, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch) and backend services for a Customer Data Platform that provides insights and guides customer engagement. The role involves designing APIs, collaborating with data scientists and ML engineers, and ensuring system scalability and reliability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs to support applications.
  2. Build and optimize data storage solutions using Postgres, ClickHouse and Elasticsearch to ensure high performance and scalability.
  3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers, to deliver end-to-end solutions.
  4. Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in distributed systems and databases.
  5. Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices for backend development.

Skills

Required

  • Backend Engineer
  • database design
  • system architecture
  • ClickHouse
  • Elasticsearch
  • Python
  • Go
  • RESTful API design
  • distributed systems
  • microservices architecture
  • cloud infrastructure
  • performance tuning
  • data modeling
  • query optimization

What the JD emphasized

  • backend services and APIs
  • data storage solutions
  • Postgres
  • ClickHouse
  • Elasticsearch
  • distributed systems
  • databases
  • backend development
  • system architecture
  • performance bottlenecks
  • scaling
  • security