
Senior Backend Engineer
Cheerz.com
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Barcelona • 🇫🇷 France
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformNode.js
About the role
- Take ownership of products, especially ads bidding and user segmentation
- Collaborate with Backend, Frontend & Data Engineers, SREs, and Product Managers to enhance the platform
- Improve performance and migrate or redesign outdated services
- Ensure high-quality, maintainable code with strong test coverage
- Promote development best practices: peer code review, continuous integration, rapid deployment
- Select appropriate tools and technologies for reliability and efficiency
- Manage technical debt while addressing daily scaling challenges
- Keep a focus on technical and business scalability to minimize technical debt
Requirements
- Strong experience with NodeJS or Go
- Worked on large-scale systems, service-oriented architecture, or caching systems (in-memory, distributed)
- Experience with high-performance and/or low-latency systems
- Understand stream processing architectures
- Experience maintaining or operating production systems
- Knowledge of at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Ability to write code that is easy to test and consistent
- Focus on scalability and reducing technical debt
- Skilled at diagnosing and resolving production issues
- Thrive in collaborative environments and communicate technical vision
- Applicants must maintain residency and be legally authorized to work in France or the European Union
- Position not open to B2B/freelance collaboration; expects permanent/full-time contract
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Performance-based Quarterly bonus with transparent KPIs
- Longevity bonus every 2 years
- 4 1/2 days work week (Fridays afternoon off)
- “RTT”
- Mental Health support
- Flexible remote working policy
- Regular team-life event / activity
- Inclusive parental leave Policy
- Most benefits available to all employees; remote team members outside France receive benefits aligned with local laws
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
NodeJSGoservice-oriented architecturecaching systemshigh-performance systemslow-latency systemsstream processing architecturesproduction systemspublic cloud platformsscalability
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingdiagnosing issuesresolving production issuesfocus on technical visionownershipadaptabilityteamworkattention to detail