Senior Backend Engineer - Budapest
Budapest, Hungary
R&D /
Full-time /
As a Falcon Senior Backend Engineer, you will help build, scale and improve the backend of a fast growing Customer Experience platform. You will aid us in building a real time, scalable, stable platform serving thousands of clients in a reliable and performant manner. You will be using new technologies, to solve hard problems in a friendly and encouraging work environment. You will also be encouraged to share your experience and knowledge, sparring with your colleagues to grow together!
Your colleagues:
You will be joining the Budapest office and the larger backend team at Falcon.io. You will also work along with frontend engineers and designers in an informal, positive, and respectful environment. We are a small but motivated team of engineers and designers; therefore, you can feel the ethos and coziness of a start-up while being a part of a fast-paced mid-sized scale-up. Shortly put, this is a team where everyone collaborates to decide on tech stacks and the best coding practices.
What you’ll do:
You will act as a mentor and take significant part in designing and building microservice solution stacks for different business use cases.
How you'll do it:
- Define accurate domain models
- Store data efficiently in a matching storage engine
- Build highly parallel data processing pipelines, and fluent APIs
- Help design, implement and improve our services while helping us adopt best practices
- Write elegant, self testing, well documented code
- Mentor and guide a diverse group of engineers
- Be mindful of the business - by communicating with your colleagues and management, help us ensure that we’re building the right thing at the right time
Who you are
- Well experienced marksman who is self-confident in building cutting edge microservice solutions for real life problems.
- Hands-on and proactive, with a wealth of experience handling cross-department stakeholders
- Enjoy sparring with team members, while at the same time making decisions that fit the overarching goals and deadlines
What you have:
- Good knowledge of Java, we are using Java 11
- Good knowledge of functional programming, experience with Akka framework is a plus
- Good knowledge of Spring ecosystem
- Experience with relational (e.g. PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis) databases
- Good knowledge of RESTful APIs, their design and implementation
- Experience with messaging technologies, Kafka is a plus
- Experience with building and/or running large-scale applications on a PaaS/SaaS cloud, preferably AWS
- Knowledge of Docker and containerization a big plus
- English language fluency
What we can offer:
- An open and informal work environment.
- Flexible working hours:- work-life balance is essential for us.
- High level of responsibility & autonomy.
- Encourage self-development via attending leading European IT conferences
- Internal tech talks, skills-building resources and technical people leads who help you achieve mastery
- Newest technologies, room for experimentation.
- Social Events such as Friday bars and Company outings.
- Healthy and not so healthy snacks. We take our candy seriously!
About Falcon.io
Falcon.io provides a unified SaaS platform for social media listening, engaging, publishing and managing customer data. We enable our clients to explore the full potential of digital marketing by managing multiple customer touch points from one platform. Our platform has already achieved great international traction in the market, with its technology endorsed by partnerships with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Founded as Falcon Social in Copenhagen in 2010, we now also have offices in New York City, Berlin, Budapest and Sofia. We’re a highly diverse team, and we’re always looking for passionate and curious people who want to be part of a fast-paced, high-energy environment.
For any questions regarding this position, please write us on jobs@falcon.io.
