Alex Staff Agency

Staff Engineer, Product Owner

Alex Staff Agency

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇧🇬 Bulgaria

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

GoJavaLinuxPython

About the role

  • Own architecture and write production code daily (Python, Go)
  • Building & improving CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub)
  • Modernizing and refactoring legacy systems safely
  • Leading technical decisions, setting engineering standards, mentoring the team
  • Defining product vision, roadmap, priorities and managing stakeholder expectations
  • Acting as main interface for teams relying on our automation tools
  • Leading a small engineering team (4–5 engineers)

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering
  • 3+ years of experience at senior/staff level
  • Strong hands-on experience in Python
  • Practical experience with another language (Go, Java, etc.)
  • Solid background with GitLab CI/GitHub workflows
  • Strong Linux fundamentals: processes, permissions, shell, networking, packaging
  • Proven experience refactoring legacy systems
  • Experience owning a product/tool end-to-end, defining roadmaps, managing trade-offs
  • Strong ownership mindset, comfortable in ambiguity and fast-moving environments
  • English B2+
  • Will be an advantage:
  • Vulnerability management, CVE/CVSS, or backporting experience
  • Experience with Linux packaging (RPM/DEB) or Java/Python/Go ecosystems
  • Practical use of LLM/AI in development workflows
  • Background in platform/enablement teams
Benefits
  • Competitive salary according to your experience and skills
  • Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves
  • Compensation for private medical insurance
  • Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement
  • Budget for education
  • The opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent
  • Interesting and challenging projects
  • This position is offered under a B2B contract, which involves setting up an individual entrepreneur (self-employment) registration in the employee's name

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
PythonGoJavaCI/CDGitLabGitHubLinuxVulnerability managementCVECVE/CVSS
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringstakeholder managementownership mindsetcomfortable in ambiguityfast-moving environments