Staff Software Engineer, Backend (iasi)

Cresta Cresta · Vertical AI · Romania · Remote · Engineering

Staff Backend Engineer role focused on building and optimizing backend services, APIs, and data storage solutions (Postgres, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch) for a Customer Data Platform. The role involves collaborating with data scientists and ML engineers, monitoring distributed systems, and ensuring security, scalability, and reliability. Experience with large-scale analytical queries and real-time data is crucial.

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

Nice to have

  • Postgres

What the JD emphasized

  • managing large-scale, real-time analytical queries