Lead Full Stack Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Serbia.

📋 Description

• Establish the technical vision for Cloud Signals systems, encompassing architecture, design documentation, and phased technical strategies.

• Oversee the integration of Fivetran and dbt for billing, including the creation of data models, usage pipelines, reconciliation, and migration planning.

• Transform Vortex into a reliable, cost-effective, and scalable event platform.

• Develop the Notification System into a trustworthy shared service.

• Work in partnership with Product, Finance, RevOps, Data, and engineering teams from both companies.

• Prototype solutions and address specification gaps prior to making definitive decisions.

• Establish Service Level Objectives (SLOs), enhance alerting and runbooks, engage in on-call duties, and lead incident responses and blameless postmortems.

• Mentor engineers across various levels and conduct code and design evaluations.

• Advocate for the effective and responsible integration of AI tools within the software development lifecycle.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership on roadmap planning, staffing, and making build-versus-buy decisions across teams, departments, and time zones.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in building and managing production software, demonstrating technical leadership on extensive cross-team initiatives.

• Extensive background in designing distributed systems and backend services, with a strong emphasis on correctness, idempotency, and data integrity.

• Practical experience with event-driven architectures and high-volume streaming or messaging systems like Kafka.

• In-depth knowledge of relational databases and data modeling, along with experience in cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake.

• Proven capability to design, build, and utilize APIs while integrating with third-party systems.

• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider, preferably AWS.

• Practical experience with containerization and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code practices, including Terraform.

• Strong operational mindset that encompasses observability, SLOs, on-call responsibilities, incident management, and zero-downtime migrations.

• Ability to identify design deficiencies and lead progressive enhancements while continuing to deliver products.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including clear design documentation and the ability to convey technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

• Proficiency with AI coding assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI in the context of software development and SDLC artifacts.

• Bonus: Experience in billing, metering, usage-based pricing, telemetry or analytics pipelines, notification platforms, ETL/ELT, dbt, modern data stack tools, or post-merger system integration.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% employer-covered medical insurance (may vary by country and worker type).

• Generous paid time off, including vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on the role and country.

• Paid sick leave.

• Inclusive parental leave policy.

• Paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest.

• Volunteer days off.

• RSU stock grants (may vary by country and worker type).

• Opportunities for professional growth and training.

• Company virtual happy hours, complimentary food, and enjoyable team-building activities.

• Monthly cell phone allowance.

• Access to an innovative mental health support platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for eligible employees and their dependents.