Senior Backend Engineer
Gorgias
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Belgrade • Serbia
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About the role
- Design features, API, and models for 16000 merchants and 12M shoppers across the world.
- Work closely with an engineering manager, a product manager, and a designer, and alongside a team of seasoned senior engineers
- Collaborate with other teams within an engineering team of 100 and counting engineers
- Grow and strengthen your skills and expertise by working with teams in charge of frontend, backend, and data pipeline components
- Participate in solving today’s technical challenges to make Gorgias’s platform and systems scale to an always-increasing customer and data traffic
- Ship your features in production by yourself; we empower engineers to be as autonomous as possible
- Monitor the success of your deployment in accordance to Gorgias’ monitoring strategy and success criteria
- Help our customers by debugging, correcting, or providing an incident response by participating in a support and on-call rotation with other engineers
Requirements
- Tech Stack Proficiency: You have **6+ years of experience** in software development, with a strong foundation in backend engineering.
- Ideally Python or Java.
- You're comfortable working with complex product architectures and have a deep understanding of modern software design principles.
- You have experience shipping user-facing products at scale and take full ownership of your work, beyond the code.
- You think in terms of systems and are pragmatic when solving problems under real-world constraints.
- You write clean, testable code and care about building high-quality software that lasts.
- You thrive in collaborative environments, communicate effectively, and bring clarity to ambiguous situations.
- You value feedback, learning, and continuous improvement for yourself and the team.
Benefits
- 🏖️ 5-week vacation plus 2 weeks RTT
- 🤕 Paid sick leave
- 🌏 6 weeks full remote/year
- 🧸 Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- 🚊50% of public transportation reimbursed
- 💻 MacBook Pro
- 🍽️ Personal credit card to buy lunches (we use Swile)
- 🏥 We provide private health insurance (we use GAN)
- 💆🏻♀️ Get up to €700 to set up your workstation at home (working from home should feel breezy)
- 📚 Get up to €2000 of learning material and wellness support per year! This includes €1500 for learning material (such as books, courses, and individual coaching sessions) directly linked to your job scope, as well as a €500 wellness budget. Take advantage of these resources to grow in your role and prioritize your personal development and wellness.
- 🥰 Every quarter, we organize an online company-wide summit to discuss where we’re going and strengthen social bonds. Once per year we organize offsite team retreats and company retreats!
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