Cresta
Senior Backend Software Engineer, Insights (Romania)
Job Summary
The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining backend services and APIs for a customer data platform aimed at delivering actionable insights to support business growth. Candidates should have proven experience with database systems such as Postgres, ClickHouse, and Elasticsearch, and possess strong backend programming skills in Python or Go. Collaboration with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and front-end engineers, is essential to build scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions. The position offers compensation that includes salary, equity, and various benefits, with hiring taking place in Romania, the US, and Canada.
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Job Description
Cresta is excited to expand our operations to Romania and build a tech hub in the region. These early joiners will play a key role in establishing our engineering team in Romania, helping to shape the future of the site. We are a remote-first environment, offering opportunities to work with a global team across Europe, the US, and Canada. Over time, we aim to create a co-working space in Romania, moving towards a hybrid environment.
Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.
About the role:
Cresta Insights: As a Senior full-stack engineer, with a backend focus, you will be at the forefront of shaping the future of customer engagement! As we work towards our vision, you'll be instrumental in delivering timely, actionable insights that drive business growth from day one. We're building a state-of-the-art Customer Data Platform, visualizing relevant insights for businesses post-onboarding and guiding customer engagement across all touch-points. Be part of the team that's redefining the way businesses connect with their customers!
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs to support applications.
- Build and optimize data storage solutions using Postgres, ClickHouse and Elasticsearch to ensure high performance and scalability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers, to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in distributed systems and databases.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices for backend development.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous integration efforts.
- Ensure security, scalability, and reliability of backend services.
- Analyze and improve system architecture, focusing on performance bottlenecks, scaling, and security.
Qualifications We Value:
- Proven experience as a Backend Engineer with a focus on database design and system architecture.
- Strong expertise in ClickHouse or similar columnar databases for managing large-scale, real-time analytical queries.
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch for indexing and searching large datasets.
- Proficient in backend programming languages such as Python, Go.
- Experience with RESTful API design and development.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with performance tuning, data modeling, and query optimization.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, as well as applicable local pay requirements. We are actively hiring for this role in Romania, the US, and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.
We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored. If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to [email protected]
Cresta
Cresta was founded with the goal of using AI to help people learn high-value skills and in doing so, make business radically more productive. Cresta’s team of world-renowned AI thought leaders, industry experts, and top-tier investors lean on experience from scaling companies like Google, Facebook, and Open AI on our march towards helping professionals become experts on day one.
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