Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Cluj)
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Senior Software Engineer focused on building and improving the Cresta platform, collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing features with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and scalability.
About this role
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 your role:
As a Software Engineer, you will:
- Play a substantial role in the Cresta engineering team, focusing on building and continuously improving the Cresta platform to support new product requirements.
- Collaborate with Cresta's product and engineering teams to develop high-quality, well-designed, reusable, and well-tested system components.
- Stay closely aligned with customers and their requirements, analyzing technical trade-offs and owning customer-facing deliverables.
- Optimize platform design and implementation for lower latency, higher throughput, better reliability, and cost reduction.
- Demonstrate engineering best practices and uphold your team to the same high standards.
- Grow into technical ownership of significant parts of Cresta's product and platform.
- Contribute to building a best-in-class product and company.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in relevant domains.
- Proficiency in designing and maintaining clear and robust APIs based on strong understanding of various protocols including gRPC, REST, WebSocket, etc.
- Experience handling real-time streaming data (audio or video) with high throughput and low latency.
- Familiarity with high-performance database schema design and query optimization.
- Experience with containerized application deployment using Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Conclusion:
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.
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 recruiting@cresta.ai
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