Senior Backend Engineer (Platform Team)

At Rossum, we’re driven by a mission: to leverage cutting-edge AI technology and an intuitive UI to eliminate needless paperwork, ultimately contributing to a better world. By revolutionizing document processing through innovative AI and technology, we stand at the forefront of transformative change. Already, hundreds of companies rely on our product to automate data extraction and streamline communication processes.

If you are a senior software engineer looking to join a company with a strong sense of purpose, and committed to tackling real-world challenges, then this is the ideal opportunity for you. 

Interested in learning more? Keep reading!

About the team: 

At Rossum, we are building a product-oriented engineering team that works closely with a dedicated Tech Lead and Product Manager to ensure our work delivers maximum value to users. We follow an agile Kanban workflow, focusing on iterative development, continuous improvement, and technical excellence. Our engineers take end-to-end ownership of their work, with the freedom to experiment, innovate, and contribute to shaping the product.

The engineering department is made up of around 60 members, led by our CTO and one of the founders, Petr Baudiš.. We have different teams dedicated to different aspects of the product: Data Capture Team, Platform Teams, Integrations and Custom Solutions Teams.

Our Tech Stack:

Rossum is a highly tech-savvy product; therefore, experience or at least familiarity with the following stack is a significant advantage, you will eventually touch all of it.

• Most of our services are written in Django and Django REST framework.

• Our public API is mostly RESTful.

• For communication between components we are using RabbitMQ, for asynchronous task processing we make use of Dramatiq library.

• We use PostgreSQL as our database of choice. For advanced search functionality, we operate an Elasticsearch cluster.

• Everything we run is deployed in Kubernetes clusters to ensure reliability and scalability. Currently, we use AWS in three regions, but we are mostly cloud agnostic.

• We operate quite a few lambda functions, our customers are able to customize the behaviour of the product with just a few lines of code (Javascript or Python).

• All configuration is persisted in Git and synchronized with all environments using GitOps tooling (flux). Terraform is our tool for managing infrastructure.

• Prometheus and Grafana are used for monitoring, EFK stack for logs.

• We use a GitLab to host our repositories and run various pipelines.

About you  

We are seeking senior software engineers with extensive experience and a willingness to apply their engineering knowledge to transform the way the world operates through technology.
You should be able to design simple solutions to complex problems and help drive them forward, keeping in mind the impact on our customers and the company.

Successful candidates typically possess: 

• Strong experience in designing and building backend systems and APIs.

• Product-oriented mindset always looking for understanding of customer needs.

• Hands-on experience working with Django, Django Rest Framework, relational databases, AWS, and Kubernetes to create scalable solutions.

• Experience in overseeing services throughout their lifecycle, including monitoring, issue resolution, CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling, and automated tests. 

• Experience working in an agile environment to deliver impactful results. 

• Experience in architectural versatility embracing both monolithic and microservices architectures to tackle diverse challenges.

What we offer:  

We are building a hyper-growth SaaS startup following the best Silicon Valley practices, in Prague.

• Stock options plan

• 5 weeks of vacation

• 5 sick days

• Flexible working hours, hybrid regime of work

• Extra two weeks for paternity leave

• High-end laptop & other necessary tech

• English & Czech language lessons on all levels

• Multisports card to access sports facilities at any of 2,700 places in Czechia.