Staff Software Developer (back-end)

Team: Global Cloud Platform - Dev

Location: Cluj, Romania, Bucharest,Romania

Commitment: Full Time - Permanent

Workplace Type: remote

What you will do:

• Define and evolve technical architecture and engineering standards that enable safe, scalable, secure, and reusable capabilities across teams. 

• Influence architectural decisions through design reviews, RFCs, proof-of-concepts, and hands-on collaboration. 

• Own key platform features and architectural improvements end-to-end, from design through delivery. 

• Partner with QA, Product, Security, Domain SMEs, and DevOps to strengthen observability, reliability, quality, CI/CD, deployment strategies, and production safeguards. 

• Drive operational excellence by identifying systemic risks, leading root cause analysis, and implementing preventative improvements. 

• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and practical technical guidance. 

• Solve complex, business-critical challenges, including third-party extensibility and real-time multi-user synchronization. 

• Champion responsible AI-assisted development by defining guardrails, piloting tools and agentic workflows, mentoring teams, and measuring impact on velocity and quality. 

What you wll bring:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 8 years with core Java and demonstrated impact beyond a single team. 

• Deep expertise in server-side Java, with the ability to serve as a subject matter expert. 

• Proven experience designing and evolving shared platforms or infrastructure used by multiple teams. 

• Experience delivering cloud-native systems on AWS, with a strong understanding of scalability, reliability, security, and cost management. 

• Experience working with monolithic applications and microservices. 

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. 

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to balance delivery speed with long-term platform health. 

• Proven ownership of significant architectural decisions and strong communication and influence skills across technical teams. 

• Experience working in an agile team alongside developers, testers, and a product owner. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with cloud providers beyond AWS, including Azure or Google Cloud. 

• Contributions to open-source projects or a strong GitHub portfolio. 

 

Technical Stack:

• Languages & Frameworks: Java 

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (S3, Secrets Manager, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, EKS), CloudFormation, Terraform 

• Data: SQL Server, AWS RDS for SQL Server 

• Testing & Observability: New Relic, AWS CloudWatch 

• Tooling: Jira, Visual Studio, GitHub, Devin, Claude Code