Required:

• 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
• Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
• A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.

Preferred / Bonus:

• Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
• Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
• Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
• Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
• Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

What we offer

• A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
• A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
• Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
• Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
• A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.                  

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 
Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 
Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its Design award winner for inclusivity for 2025.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

With the growth of our Android app, being the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, we find the need for a Senior Android Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push us forward.   

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and become responsible of delivering high quality features
• Shape the future of our Android team
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering
• Review pull requests, and support other teammates
• Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges 
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Familiarity with Android components
• Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app
• Product design intuition and user empathy
• Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX
• Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase above and beyond what's outlined in the spec
• Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests
• Excellent communication skills
• User oriented problem solving approach
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

Bonus:

• Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
• Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS

Technologies we use:

• Kotlin
• Kotlin Coroutines
• Kotlin Flow
• Jetpack Navigation
• Dagger 2
• Room
• Custom Views, Canvas & Paint
• Jetpack Compose
• JUnit

What We offer:

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Actively ship production code to the web products
• Work closely with your dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Have the opportunity to work on new and exciting features that will impact millions of lives

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Experience. You've built and ship products that have scaled to thousands or millions of users
• Customer obsession. You are passionate about the field and have the desire to build high quality product that serves customer needs
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Tech Stack: Vanilla JS, ReactJS, Redux, Firebase, Typescript

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the culture
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• A hands-off approach so you can focus and do your best work
• The opportunity to make an impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The position is in the Enterprise Business Intelligence Department (Romanian team), responsible for developing company-wide solutions for measuring, evaluating, and managing operational and strategic business objectives, part of our sister’s companies in Germany, 1&1 Telecommunications SE.

Main responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes using MS SQL Server, and Python, ensuring reliable data movement from source systems to the data warehouse and analytical layers.
• Build and operate real-time and near-real-time data ingestion pipelines using Apache Kafka — designing topics, building producers and consumers, and managing stream processing workflows.
• Develop and optimize stored procedures, views, and data transformation logic for both backend processing and frontend consumption (SSAS, Power BI).
• Write and maintain Python-based data services and integrations, leveraging libraries such as sqlalchemy, pyodbc, confluent_kafka, json, and FastAPI to connect, transform, and expose data across systems.
• Perform requirements analysis and effort estimation within projects and implement solutions as part of an international, cross-functional team.
• Collaborate closely with BI analysts and architects to translate business requirements into robust, scalable data solutions.
• Support Business Analysts with ad-hoc analyses on large data volumes, complex data models, and data extraction from operational systems.
• Design, code, test, debug, document, and support all types of data flows and transformation procedures consistent with established specifications and business requirements to deliver maximum business value.
• Support, enhance, and modify existing applications, pipelines, and codebases.

What we're looking for:

Core skills:

• Well-rounded knowledge of data warehousing and Business Intelligence concepts, including physical data modeling techniques specific to data warehouse requirements.
• Strong experience with MS SQL Server — database implementation, performance tuning, and writing efficient queries on large data volumes.
• Solid Python programming skills, with hands-on experience building data pipelines, REST APIs, and integration scripts using libraries such as sqlalchemy, pyodbc, confluent_kafka, json, and FastAPI.
• Experience with Apache Kafka — designing and managing topics, building producers and consumers, and working with Kafka Streams or similar stream-processing patterns.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with team members and cross-functional stakeholders in an international environment.

Nice to have:

• Mastery of SQL on large data volumes (complex joins, window functions, query optimization).
• Experience building and exposing REST APIs for data services (FastAPI or similar frameworks).
• Previous working experience in telecommunications (4G/5G).
• Familiarity with Microsoft BI tools (SSAS, Power BI).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queue patterns beyond Kafka.

What we offer:

• Access to local/international trainings, development and growth opportunities, including access to e-learning platforms, covering both technical and soft skills areas;
• Modern technologies, product responsibility;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Hybrid work option;
• Medical services package from one of two private providers;
• 25 vacation days per year;
• Substitute days off for public holidays that occur on the weekend;
• Meal tickets;
• Internal referral program;
• Team events, networking events organized to promote a passionate, creative and diverse culture;
• Summerfest and Winterfest parties;
• Of course, coffee, soft drinks and fresh fruits are on us in the office.

The position is in the Enterprise Business Intelligence Department (Romanian team), responsible for developing company-wide solutions for measuring, evaluating, and managing operational and strategic business objectives, part of our sister’s companies in Germany, 1&1 Telecommunications SE.

Main responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable data pipelines and workflows using Azure Databricks and the broader Azure data platform (Data Factory, Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL), ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Develop and optimize data transformation logic using PySpark and SQL within Databricks, handling large-scale datasets across batch and streaming workloads
• Build and maintain data movement procedures, views, and flows for both frontend and backend systems, leveraging MS SQL Server, SSAS, Power BI, and Azure cloud services
• Collaborate closely with BI analysts and architects to translate business requirements into robust data engineering solutions; implement new ideas and improvements driven by that collaboration
• Perform requirement analyses and effort estimations within projects and deliver solutions as part of an international team
• Support Business Analysts with ad-hoc analyses on large data volumes, complex data models, and data extraction from operational systems
• Design, code, test, debug, document, and support all types of data flows and transformation procedures consistent with established specifications and business requirements to deliver maximum business value
• Support, enhance, and modify existing applications, codebases, and data pipelines

What we're looking for:

Core Skills:

• Solid experience with Azure Databricks — notebook development, job orchestration, cluster management, Delta Lake
• Experience with the Azure cloud platform — Data Factory, Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure SQL, Key Vault, and related services
• Strong proficiency in SQL and PySpark, with the ability to write performant, production-grade code against large data volumes
• Well-rounded knowledge of data warehousing and Business Intelligence concepts, physical data modeling techniques, and the specific requirements of data warehouse architectures
• Knowledge of physical database implementation and performance tuning based on logical data models
• Ability to collaborate effectively with team members and cross-functional stakeholders

Nice to have:

• Mastery of SQL performance optimization on very large datasets
• Previous working experience in telecommunications (4G/5G)
• Experience with MS SQL Server tooling (SSAS, Power BI)
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices for data pipelines (e.g., Databricks Asset Bundles, Azure DevOps)

What we offer:

• Access to local/international trainings, development and growth opportunities, including access to e-learning platforms, covering both technical and soft skills areas;
• Modern technologies, product responsibility;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Hybrid work option;
• Medical services package from one of two private providers;
• 25 vacation days per year;
• Substitute days off for public holidays that occur on the weekend;
• Meal tickets;
• Internal referral program;
• Team events, networking events organized to promote a passionate, creative and diverse culture;
• Summerfest and Winterfest parties;
• Of course, coffee, soft drinks and fresh fruits are on us in the office.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)
• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing forward.   

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions
• Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app
• Work within a dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base
• Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product
• Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience
• Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI

Technical Requirements:

• Swift Programming Language
• SwiftUI experience
• Experience in Multithreading Programming
• Working with CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience with Fastlane
• SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID
• Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies

What We offer:

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives
• Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

About us:

At IONOS, the leading European provider of cloud infrastructure, cloud services and hosting services, you will work together with a wide range of teams. We are characterized by open structures, a friendly working culture and flat hierarchies with a strong team spirit. We firmly believe that work and fun are compatible, and offer you the right environment for this. Our constant growth means that we are always looking for new colleagues. Become part of IONOS and grow with us.

We strive to deliver quality above anything else. 

About the project:

Help us build the future of web hosting while mastering the complexity of the present. We orchestrate the full spectrum of hosting services starting from provisioning, integration, customer interaction - across both legacy and next-gen platforms.
The challenge? Contribute to our future vision while learning from battle-tested systems as we migrate our entire shared hosting customer base to a modern platform, without missing a beat.
The opportunity? Shape the architecture that powers it all.

What you'll get in:

• AI-powered development: Leverage Gemini, Copilot, and Claude Code to accelerate test design, test automation, and defect analysis, then apply your expertise through rigorous test reviews and quality validation;
• Agile engineering culture: Scrum practices, continuous integration, and fast iteration cycles;
• Collaborative environment: Friendly, open team culture where ideas flow freely;
• Deep Cloud & Infrastructure Exposure: Gain hands-on experience with industry-leading platform technologies, including OKD (OpenShift), Kubernetes, and Docker. You won't just be testing; you’ll be working within a modern containerized ecosystem;
• Modern Java Ecosystem: Work closely with the Spring framework, giving you a deep understanding of how enterprise-level microservices are built and orchestrated.

What you'll do:

• Participate in testing and delivery of high quality software;
• Manage the testing process through all phases of the project lifecycle;
• Define, implement and execute:
• Middleware automated functional tests
• Frontend automated tests
• Manual tests, when suitable scenarios demand them
• Non-functional tests
• Integrate the automated test cases into the Continuous Delivery pipeline;
• Maintain both the test suites and the test frameworks;
• Promotion of best practice testing within the team using any other frameworks and tools;
• Investigate, report, document and check bugs resulting from different types of tests;
• Work with colleagues and peer teams, both local and abroad;
• Be a part of our young and dynamic team.

We appreciate:

• Good understanding of software development lifecycle and methodology;
• Java and OOP knowledge;
• Nice to have knowledge of / User experience with behavior-driven development tool Cucumber;
• Background in REST API test automation;
• Knowledge of Playwright / Selenium or any other UI automation tool / framework;
• Knowledge of a build automation tool (i.e. Maven, Gradle);
• Knowledge of relational and / or non-relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc);
• Experience with version-control systems, such as Git;
• Basic Linux skills;
• A proactive mindset, who shares his/her ideas and brings them to life;
• Highly motivated, self-driven, good analytical skills with an eye for details and interested in Quality Assurance;
• Good written and verbal English language skills;
• Very good communication skills;
• Nice to have user-level experience with tools like: Jira, Confluence;
• Nice to have knowledge of automation testing tools like: Jmeter;
• Nice to have usage of tools and technologies like: Postman/Insomnia/Bruno, Swagger, Docker, Kubernetes, OKD;
• Nice to have hands-on experience with Continuous Integration platforms (eg. Jenkins);
• Nice to have ISTQB Foundation Level;

What we offer:

• Access to local/international trainings, development and growth opportunities, including access to e-learning platforms, covering both technical and soft skills areas;
• Modern technologies, product responsibility;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Hybrid work option;
• Medical services package from one of two private providers;
• 25 vacation days per year;
• Substitute days off for public holidays that occur on the weekend;
• Meal tickets;
• Internal referral program;
• Team events, networking events organized to promote a passionate, creative and diverse culture;
• Summerfest and Winterfest parties;
• Of course, coffee, soft drinks and fresh fruits are on us in the office.

Our Partner 

Our partner (listed on NASDAQ) is the leading expert in 5G ready cloud-native, network intelligence solutions for telecom operators transitioning to 5G. Their Network Intelligence consists of Network Visibility, Service Assurance, and Network Insights. The Network Intelligence suite offers intelligent, container-based, on-demand solutions to deliver network analysis from the RAN to the Core for 5G assurance. Utilizing automated and dynamic solutions with smart minimal data collection and on-demand troubleshooting and cutting-edge techniques based on machine learning, these solutions work in harmony to provide operators an understanding of the entire customer experience and allow them to troubleshoot network performance from a high to granular level while reducing storage costs and cloud resource utilization.

Role Overview

We are looking for a proactive and experienced Fullstack Java Developer to help migrate existing Node.js backend services to a robust Java-based architecture. This role is ideal for someone with a strong backend focus on Java, while also being comfortable working across the stack with modern frontend technologies like React or Angular. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring seamless integration across systems. You will be part of the Infra team within the Infra & Orch Group, which focuses on developing tools and processes for installing, configuring, and managing our Partner’s products. The Infra team is responsible for both in-house applications that support product infrastructure (such as user management, authentication integrations, and system configurations) as well as third-party open-source solutions, including databases (MongoDB, Vertica), monitoring tools (Prometheus, EFK), and other technologies like Kafka and MinIO. 

Responsibilities 

• Migrate backend components from Node.js to Java, using frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. 
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable backend services and APIs. 
• Design data models and queries with Spring Data, optimizing for performance and scalability. 
• Work with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Couchbase). 
• Services with Apache Kafka for message streaming. 
• Maintain and improve existing frontend components using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like React or Angular. 
• Collaborate with the product owner, architect, frontend developers, DevOps, and other team members on end-to-end product delivery. 
• Take end-to-end responsibility for backend features – from requirements gathering to production support. 
• Identify bottlenecks, bugs, and devise elegant solutions to mitigate and address them. 
• Implement best practices for code quality, testing, and performance optimization. 
• Write unit and integration tests for critical components. 
• Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions. 
• Deploy and manage microservices in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes. 

Requirements 

Must Have: 

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering. 
• 5+ years overall Java developer experience.  
• Experience working with frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, REST API. 
• Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB or Couchbase. 
• Strong understanding of JavaScript (ES6+) and asynchronous programming. 
• Experience implementing OAuth2, JWT and SSO mechanism. 
• Experience with authentication, authorization protocols and API security practices. 
• Familiarity with Git and version control workflows. 
• Basic understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and microservices. 
• Good understanding of software development principles and lifecycles. 
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git, Jenkins). 
• Experience in NodeJs. 
• Fluent English. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Highly independent and self-motivated. 
• Good communication skills and the ability to work closely with frontend teams. 
• Proactive communicator, comfortable raising concerns and proposing improvements. 

Nice to Have: 

• Experience with TypeScript in Node.js applications. 
• Comfortable with frontend technologies like React, Angular (React preferred). 
• Familiar working with Vertica DB or other relational databases. 
• Familiarity with 3rd party tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK). 
• Understanding of message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ). 
• Familiarity with Swagger or similar tools for API documentation. 
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch for search capabilities and log analytics. 

Reasons to Work with Us 

• Competitive financial conditions. 
• Opportunity to work on internationally recognized projects. 
• Flexible schedule and a hybrid work model, prioritizing remote work as much as possible to support work-life balance. 
• An exciting career path within a friendly, dynamic, and growing organization. 
• Professional development opportunities in a multicultural environment. 
• Private medical coverage with Medlife or Regina Maria. 
• Meal vouchers. 
• Gift vouchers for special occasions such as birthdays, weddings, or childbirth. 
• Wellbeing programs, including sick days, 7Card subscriptions, and relaxation facilities in the office. 
• Team-building events and other social experiences. 
• Budget allocated for certifications relevant to your project. 
• Workshops, internal training sessions, and knowledge-sharing opportunities. 
• Convenient city-center office location. 
• Shared parking spaces. 

As a global digital transformation company, Orion values creating a productive, diverse work environment. We are committed to maintaining a positive work environment where our people value traits that make each one of us different from one another. We all bring a diverse set of perspectives, work and life experiences, and our differences make us more valuable both internally and for our clients. 

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is the German Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

We’ve assembled a world-class team of AI and ML experts, go-to-market leaders, and top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sequoia, and former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Our valued customers include brands like Intuit, Cox Communications, Hilton, and Carmax and we’ve been recognized by Forbes and Bain Consulting as one of the top private AI companies in the world.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the contact center workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

The Knowledge Assist (KA) team at Cresta builds AI solutions that help contact center agents access the right knowledge at the right time. Our projects include real-time generative assistance (GenKA), knowledge search (KS), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities, and knowledge connectors to integrate with customer systems.

We are looking for a software engineer who enjoys working across the stack and thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. While this role leans toward backend development, a full stack skill set is highly valued.

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, reliable backend services that power real-time AI assistance and search.
• Design APIs and data flows to support integrations with knowledge bases and customer systems.
• Work across the stack when needed, including backend, frontend, and infrastructure layers.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, machine learning engineers, and fellow software engineers.
• Take ownership of projects end-to-end, from design through implementation and operation in production.
• Contribute to technical discussions, architecture reviews, and continuous improvement efforts.

Qualifications We Value:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering roles.
• Strong backend development skills, preferably with Python, Go, Node.js, or similar languages.
• Proficiency in designing clear, maintainable APIs (e.g., REST, gRPC).
• Familiarity with frontend development (e.g., React or similar frameworks) is a plus.
• Experience working with databases (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, or equivalents).
• Solid understanding of system design, distributed systems, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative working style.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the product manager to define and detail the product requirements
• Define software architecture and design matching the requirements
• Write and push high-quality code efficiently for both the frontend and backend
• Apply synchronous and asynchronous design patterns
• Scale distributed applications
• Identify and leverage opportunities to improve general engineering productivity
• Integrate with various tools for CI/CD, test automation, monitoring, logging, documentation
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7

Qualifications We Value:

About us

We're an independent European digital product studio with a strong track record of delivering market-defining strategies and products for enterprises and governments. With about 200 talented people across three countries, premium AI capabilities and a diverse portfolio of international clients, we define, design and ship high-quality digital products, strategies and software. From global cloud-based platforms and large-scale apps to medical devices, banking software and augmented reality experiences. In a nutshell: if it lives and breathes digital, it’s what we do best.

Become a part of our team

At In The Pocket, you join a multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers, strategists and data specialists who care about the work as much as the people they work with. We work in small, autonomous teams that stay close to our clients and their users, and we give everyone the space to take ownership, speak up and grow. You’ll learn from colleagues across our studios, ship products that reach thousands or even millions of people and help shape what digital can do for leading organisations in Europe.

What you’ll do 

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend services that power our applications. You will work closely with frontend engineers, DevOps professionals, and cloud architects to ensure a seamless and efficient development process. You should also be a strong technical mentor, supporting and guiding colleagues to help the team grow.

• Design, develop, and implement backend APIs using secure and efficient programming languages and frameworks.
• Migrate and manage cloud infrastructure on platforms like AWS.
• Automate backend deployments and infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization for cost-effectiveness and scalability.
• Implement robust security measures to protect applications and data in the cloud (OWASP).
• Troubleshoot and debug complex backend issues.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and innovations in cloud technologies.
• Effectively integrate AI tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT) into the development workflow to enhance code writing, code reviews, and overall productivity.
• Act as a mentor for colleagues, providing guidance, support, and knowledge sharing to help the team grow.

Who you are 

• Excellent knowledge of TypeScript (5+ years of experience).
• Proven experience working with cloud platforms like AWS.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good knowledge of authentication technologies, including OAuth, OpenID Connect, and SAML.
• Strong knowledge of database technologies, both relational and NoSQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Good understanding of messaging and broker systems (Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS, SQS).
• Solid understanding of security concepts and best practices (OWASP).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, including infrastructure-as-code, observability, and CI/CD.
• Good understanding of quality engineering practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Passion for building high-quality, scalable, and secure software.
• Advanced use of AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate software delivery, refine algorithmic solutions, and critically validate AI-generated output.
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an asset.

What we offer  

Joining In The Pocket means becoming part of a team that shapes the future of our clients’ businesses across Europe. Here’s what you can look forward to:

• You’ll start with a permanent contract in a role that comes with responsibility and the opportunity to make a real impact from day one.
• We offer a competitive salary that reflects your experience and the value you bring.
• Our benefits package has you covered with medical insurance, meal vouchers, and more.
• You’ll have a mobility budget that lets you decide how to get around, your way. 
• Life at In The Pocket isn’t just about work, we host team events throughout the year to celebrate, connect, and have fun together.
• Learning never stops here, so after six months, you’ll receive a dedicated learning and development budget to keep growing your skills and exploring new horizons.

We are seeking for a talented Full Stack Developer to join our growing development team.

The ideal candidate is experienced in both frontend and backend technologies and is passionate about building high-quality, scalable applications.

You’ll collaborate with designers, product managers, and fellow engineers to create innovative software solutions that drive value for our users.

Responsibilities:

Principal Engineer & CMS Platform Lead 

Location: [Remote / Europe / Israel/ Cyprus] 

Technology: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, CMS (Open-Source), AI Localization. 

About Kape Technologies 

Kape (LSE: KAPE, privatized 2023) is a global leader in the "Privacy-First" digital security era. We are the powerhouse behind the world’s most trusted consumer privacy brands. 

With over 7 million paying subscribers and a global team of 1,000+ experts across 10 locations, our mission is to provide complete digital autonomy. We believe that a free and open internet starts with state-of-the-art technology. As we scale toward the next 10 million users, we are consolidating our web infrastructure into a unified, next-generation content platform that matches the world-class engineering of our core VPN products. 

The Challenge 

You will lead the engineering squad responsible for retiring our legacy WordPress instances across brands. You aren't just building a website; you are building a Content Operating System powered by an open-source headless CMS at its core. This platform must support high-velocity PPC landing pages, complex multi-language blogs, and technical support hubs—all while maintaining the extreme performance and security standards expected of global privacy leaders. 

A key part of this role is evaluating and adopting an open-source CMS solution (such as Strapi, Payload CMS, Directus, or KeystoneJS) as the foundation of the new platform. You will assess these solutions against our requirements for extensibility, multi-tenancy, and API-first content delivery, and lead the customization and integration effort to make the chosen platform fit our multi-brand ecosystem. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Open-Source CMS Selection & Integration: Evaluate and lead the adoption of an open-source headless CMS (e.g., Strapi, Payload CMS, Directus, KeystoneJS) as the content backbone. Define selection criteria around extensibility, plugin ecosystem, multi-tenancy support, role-based access, and API performance. Own the customization roadmap to tailor the chosen solution to our multi-brand needs.
• Unified Architecture: Design a multi-brand, component-based headless system built on the selected open-source CMS. You will architect the "Core Engine" that allows all three brands to share high-performance components while maintaining unique visual identities. 
• Inheritance & Customization: Solve the "Parent-Child" challenge. Build a system where a global campaign (Parent) can be instantly deployed across dozens of regional versions (Children) with localized overrides and inherited SEO logic. 
• Infrastructure & Security Governance: Partner with DevOps to define the global delivery strategy. You will oversee requirements for Edge Computing (ISR/Edge Functions), WAF, and multi-layered caching (Redis/CDN) to ensure sub-second LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) globally. 
• AI-Powered Localization: Architect a native-feeling translation pipeline. Integrate LLMs to handle context-aware translations and build an AI "Quality Gate" that automatically checks pages for SEO health and UI regressions before they go live. 
• Visual Editor Implementation: Bridge the gap between engineering and marketing by leveraging the chosen open-source CMS's admin panel and extending it with a high-performance visual editing experience that doesn't bloat the frontend code. 

Technical Requirements (Hard Skills) 

• Next.js & React Mastery: Expert-level experience with the App Router, Server Components, and performance optimization for massive traffic (millions of monthly uniques). 
• Node.js/TypeScript Ecosystem: Deep experience building robust, type-safe APIs and microservices. Hands-on experience with open-source headless CMS platforms (Strapi, Payload CMS, Directus, or similar) is a strong advantage. 
• Multi-layered Caching: Professional-grade understanding of browser, server-side, and edge caching strategies. 
• Infrastructure Fluency: Ability to set precise tasks for DevOps and verify the integrity of deployments, proxying, and firewalling. 
• Technical SEO: Deep knowledge of how headless architectures impact crawlability, schema, and dynamic sitemaps. 

Why Join Kape? 

This is a rare opportunity to own the web platform for one of the biggest names in cybersecurity. You will have the budget and the mandate to move away from legacy debt and build a "Golden Path" for web development using the best of the JavaScript and open-source ecosystem—starting with a best-in-class headless CMS as the foundation.

About Kape Technologies 

Kape (LSE: KAPE, privatized 2023) is a global leader in the "Privacy-First" digital security era. We are the powerhouse behind the world’s most trusted consumer privacy brands. With over 7 million paying subscribers and a global team of 1,000+ experts across 10 locations, our mission is to provide complete digital autonomy. We believe that a free and open internet starts with state-of-the-art technology. As we scale toward the next 10 million users, we are consolidating our web infrastructure into a unified, next-generation content platform that matches the world-class engineering of our core VPN products. 

Software Engineering Lead

Location:  Bucharest, Romania

Technology: PHP/Laravel, React, NextJS, TypeScript

The Challenge 

You will lead an operational engineering squad responsible for both frontend and backend systems across three distinct brands, ensuring reliability, scalability, and continuous delivery of customer-facing experiences. You will drive the evolution of our platforms by building new product elements and executing high-impact design and revenue experiments to optimize user engagement and conversion.

A core part of your mission will be consolidating and modernizing our overall technology stack. You will oversee the migration of legacy tools and blog platforms into a unified internal CMS built on Laravel and React, shaping it into a flexible, extensible system that supports multiple brands and use cases. This includes defining content structures, streamlining editorial workflows, and enabling rapid iteration across marketing and product teams.

In parallel, you will lead the development of new features within our customer-facing dashboards, including CLP areas, performance, SEO, and personalization. You will also take ownership of integrating and customizing multiple payment providers, ensuring seamless, secure, and regionally optimized transaction flows. Throughout, you are expected to balance experimentation with operational excellence, maintaining system stability while enabling fast-paced product innovation.

Key Responsibilities 

• Multi-Brand Platform Ownership: Lead the engineering squad responsible for the end-to-end operation of frontend and backend systems across three brands. Ensure system reliability, scalability, and continuous delivery while balancing experimentation with production stability.
• Experimentation & Growth Engineering: Drive the development of new UI components and backend capabilities to support rapid design, UX, and revenue experiments. Establish frameworks for A/B testing, feature flagging, and data-driven iteration across all brands.
• Internal CMS Evolution (Laravel + React): Own the architecture, extension, and adoption of the internal CMS platform built on Laravel and React. Lead the migration of legacy tools into this unified system, ensuring consistency, maintainability, and extensibility across use cases.
• Blog & Content Platform Consolidation: Oversee the migration of multiple blog platforms into the internal CMS. Standardize content models, improve editorial workflows, and enable scalable multi-brand publishing with strong SEO and performance foundations.
• Customer Dashboard Development: Drive the continuous improvement of customer-facing areas such as CLP dashboards. Deliver new features that enhance usability, personalization, and overall product value while maintaining high performance and stability.
• Payments Integration & Optimization: Lead the integration and customization of multiple payment providers. Ensure seamless, secure, and regionally optimized payment flows, while enabling flexibility for experimentation and business-driven adjustments.
• Operational Excellence & Delivery: Establish engineering best practices for code quality, deployment, monitoring, and incident management. Ensure the squad can operate efficiently in a high-velocity environment with clear ownership and accountability. 
• Develop new software and participate in the maintenance and enhancement of existing software applications;
• Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations for various components of infrastructure;
• Focus on continuous integration and continuous delivery of the company's core products;
• Contribute with innovative ideas and methods to continuously improve quality and development efficiency;
• Oversees the activity of the other developers, coordinating and coaching the web development team;

Technical Requirements (Hard Skills) 

• Next.js & React Mastery: Strong experience with the App Router, Server Components, and performance optimization for massive traffic (millions of monthly uniques). 
• PHP Ecosystem: Main focus will be on Laravel, but also on legacy applications built with CakePHP or WordPress. Hands-on experience with open-source headless CMS platforms (WordPress, Strapi, or similar) is a plus. 
• Infrastructure Knowledge: Ability to set precise tasks for DevOps and verify the integrity of deployments, proxying, and firewalling (AWS is a plus). 
• Technical SEO (optional): Deep knowledge of how headless architectures impact crawlability, schema, and dynamic sitemaps. 

Why Join Kape? 

This is a rare opportunity to own the web platform for one of the biggest names in cybersecurity. You will have the budget and the mandate to move away from legacy debt and build a "Golden Path" for web development using the best of the JavaScript and open-source ecosystem—starting with a best-in-class headless CMS as the foundation.

Java Backend Engineer

Hybrid, Bucharest, Romania

JOB OVERVIEW

The Legion application is a high-performance data-driven Java enterprise application that implements sophisticated scheduling and optimization algorithms. It also provides the necessary endpoints for our Web and mobile frontend applications. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a member of the team responsible for the implementation and evolution of this application. You will need to be able to write secure, efficient, enterprise-quality Java code, and have a deep understanding of the techniques and technologies that are necessary for scalability and performance. You will also need knowledge and experience with data modeling and relational databases. Our application runs on AWS, so experience with containerization and cloud deployments is desirable. We're using Springboot, Hibernate, MySQL, and JSON, so familiarity with these technologies will be helpful. Frontend experience in JavaScript and Angular and/or React is a big plus.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Develop features with high quality and on-time
• Thorough understanding of product area 
• Assist with feature design along with CTO/Architect
• Develop features keeping in mind best coding practices including performance and user experience
• Own product quality
• Test features before asking QA engineers to test
• Write unit tests
• Work with QA engineers to test the product end-to-end
• Fix incoming bugs daily: Adhere to bug resolution goals and SLA
• Be able to demo the Legion product end-to-end
• Devise robust solutions that enable product engineering teams to rapidly deliver features in a scalable and performant manner
• Design, build, and support applications from End to End.
• Make data-driven technical decisions
• Use your deep technical knowledge to debug and solve complex technical problems
• Identify and resolve ambiguities in requirements in consultation with the various stakeholders
• Contribute to the long-term team charter and quarterly planning
• Mentor others on the team, and hold a high bar for code quality and standards by conducting design reviews, code reviews, and providing feedback
• Work with QA team to make the feature as Production ready.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• Strong individual contributor with the ability to research
• 3-5 years with backend technologies (Java, Spring Boot, MySQL)
• 3-5 years working on building multi-tenant SaaS applications
• 3-5 years experience with designing and building APIs
• 3+ years delivering software in a cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Professional software development experience
• Proficiency in Java or C++, and object-oriented design skills
• Application architecture and design patterns
• Experience serving as technical lead throughout the full software development lifecycle, from conception, architecture definition, detailed design, scoping, planning, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance is preferred
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in the development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications
• Proven ability to lead projects from inception to production
• Strong mastery in communication skills, software architecture design, writing technical documents
• Strong personal work ethic focused on prioritization, being action-oriented, and being driven to achieve positive results

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES

• Proactive and able to command respect through intelligence, hard work, and persistence
• Personal passion and fervor for industry-leading next-generation technology
• Ability to operate in an environment with limited resources
• A great communicator who can distill powerful messages that resonate with customers 
• Track record of building positive relationships with peers 
• Continuous and thoughtful listener, able to learn from others and leverage input
• Strong personal work ethic focused on high-priority issues; action and results-oriented
• Unquestionable integrity, credibility, and character; demonstrated high moral and ethical behavior
• Proficiency with AWS products and services
• Experience in managing frameworks/systems for ensuring code quality such as Coverity, SonarQub, etc.

ABOUT LEGION

Join Legion's mission to turn hourly jobs into good jobs. We're a mission-driven team seeking exceptional talent to propel this vision. Embrace a culture that's collaborative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial. With us, you'll grow your skills, work closely with experienced executives, and contribute significantly to our mission. Our award-winning AI-native workforce management platform is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric and proven to deliver 13x ROI. We help labor-intensive organizations maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. Legion has earned recognition for its innovation, including spots on the Inc. 5000 list, Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, and awards for our AI technology. Backed by leading investors such as Norwest Venture Partners, Stripes, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, we're making real change. If you're ready to make an impact and grow your career, Legion is where you belong. Join us in making hourly work rewarding and fulfilling.

BACKGROUND AND OPPORTUNITY

There are almost 75 million hourly workers in the United States, representing more than half of the entire workforce. Historically, managing hourly employees has been difficult due to high attrition (average of 60%) and high replacement costs (average of $3,200 per employee in retail). The ongoing labor shortage and competition from the gig economy, make it more difficult to attract and retain hourly employees. The top reasons hourly employees leave their jobs are a lack of schedule empowerment, poor communication with employers, and an inability to get paid early. Gen Z and the millennial workforce demand gig-like flexibility, modern technology, and compelling work options. Legion’s mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs, serving the hourly workers who make up the majority of the US workforce. We believe in empowering employees and helping employers be efficient and innovative by enabling intelligent automation powered by Legion’s Workforce Management platform to optimize labor efficiency and enhance the employee experience simultaneously. 

Legion WFM was built for the cloud with AI at the core and is designed to handle the complexity of modern businesses and meet the needs of today’s hourly employees. Our team is composed of dedicated individuals from all backgrounds and experiences, globally distributed across all time zones. For more information, visit https://legion.co 

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

At Legion, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. As a hybrid employer in Bucharest, Romania, pay for positions is determined using local, national, and industry-specific survey data. We strive to make competitive offers allowing employees room for future growth. Salaries will be based on the applicant’s location, level of experience, education, and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally, we consider the external market rate, the amount we have budgeted internally, and internal equity within the company for the same position. 

Benefits include, but are not limited to: 

• Health Benefits
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Meal Vouchers

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Legion Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.

DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION

For individuals with disabilities who need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email recruiting@legion.co 

Java Backend Engineer

Hybrid, Bucharest, Romania

JOB OVERVIEW

The Legion application is a high-performance data-driven Java enterprise application that implements sophisticated scheduling and optimization algorithms. It also provides the necessary endpoints for our Web and mobile frontend applications. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a member of the team responsible for the implementation and evolution of this application. You will need to be able to write secure, efficient, enterprise-quality Java code, and have a deep understanding of the techniques and technologies that are necessary for scalability and performance. You will also need knowledge and experience with data modeling and relational databases. Our application runs on AWS, so experience with containerization and cloud deployments is desirable. We're using Springboot, Hibernate, MySQL, and JSON, so familiarity with these technologies will be helpful. Frontend experience in JavaScript and Angular and/or React is a big plus.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Design and implement: Build scalable, high-performance, and secure features for our Time & Attendance engine, including time-tracking, scheduling rules, overtime logic, and labor compliance calculations.
• Leverage AI tooling daily: Use AI coding assistants and LLM-powered tools throughout your workflow — code generation, test scaffolding, code review acceleration, documentation, and debugging — and share learnings with your team.
• Own quality: Write comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and collaborate on automated test suites. AI-generated code still needs rigorous human review and validation.
• Drive technical decisions: Participate actively in architecture discussions, propose solutions, and document trade-offs with clarity.
• Mentor and review: Give substantive code reviews, pair with junior engineers, and model best practices including responsible AI-assisted development.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product Management, UX, and QA to translate business requirements into robust technical specifications and BDD scenarios.
• Troubleshoot production issues: Diagnose and resolve complex bugs in distributed, high-volume environments with urgency and care.
• Continuously improve: Identify and drive performance, scalability, and reliability improvements across the platform.
• Uphold security standards: Participate in security reviews and ensure implementations comply with industry standards and internal policies.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience: 5-10+ years of professional software development with deep expertise in Java (or C++) in enterprise or SaaS environments.
• AI tooling proficiency: Demonstrated, habitual use of AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Tabnine) in daily development - you should be able to describe specific workflows where AI tooling materially changed how you work.
• Backend depth: Strong command of Spring Boot, REST API design, Hibernate/JPA, and relational databases (MySQL or equivalent), including query optimization and indexing strategies.
• Distributed systems: Solid understanding of microservices architecture, asynchronous patterns, and high-volume transaction handling.
• Cloud & containerization: Hands-on experience with AWS and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Software craftsmanship: Deep familiarity with coding standards, code review practices, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps principles.
• Testing discipline: Proven ability to write and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and automated test suites - including for AI-generated code.
• Problem-solving: Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and debug complex, multi-layered systems independently.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to document technical decisions clearly for both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES

• AI-native workflow: You've gone beyond autocomplete — you use AI for architecture brainstorming, test generation, spec drafting, PR summaries, and are actively experimenting with agentic coding tools.
• Workforce management or HCM domain experience: Familiarity with time-and-attendance, payroll, scheduling, or labor compliance systems is a significant advantage.
• Frontend exposure: Working knowledge of JavaScript and either Angular or React.
• Leadership track record: Experience informally leading feature teams, running design reviews, or serving as a technical point of contact for a product area.
• Performance engineering: Prior work on query optimization, caching strategies, or throughput/latency improvements in high-volume applications.
• Agile fluency: Comfortable operating in fast-paced sprint cycles with evolving requirements.
• Integrity and judgment: Demonstrated ethical behavior and sound judgment, including when evaluating AI-generated outputs for correctness, bias, and security implications.

In your interviews, we'll ask you to describe:

• Which AI coding tools you use and how frequently.
• A specific example where an AI tool helped you design, refactor, or debug something non-trivially.
• How you validate and review AI-generated code to catch errors, security issues, or performance problems.
• Your view on the limits of current AI coding assistants and where human judgment remains essential.

We are not looking for performative AI enthusiasm. We are looking for engineers who have genuinely integrated these tools into their craft and can think critically about their strengths and failure modes.

ABOUT LEGION

Join Legion's mission to turn hourly jobs into good jobs. We're a mission-driven team seeking exceptional talent to propel this vision. Embrace a culture that's collaborative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial. With us, you'll grow your skills, work closely with experienced executives, and contribute significantly to our mission. Our award-winning AI-native workforce management platform is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric and proven to deliver 13x ROI. We help labor-intensive organizations maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. Legion has earned recognition for its innovation, including spots on the Inc. 5000 list, Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, and awards for our AI technology. Backed by leading investors such as Norwest Venture Partners, Stripes, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, we're making real change. If you're ready to make an impact and grow your career, Legion is where you belong. Join us in making hourly work rewarding and fulfilling.

BACKGROUND AND OPPORTUNITY

There are almost 75 million hourly workers in the United States, representing more than half of the entire workforce. Historically, managing hourly employees has been difficult due to high attrition (average of 60%) and high replacement costs (average of $3,200 per employee in retail). The ongoing labor shortage and competition from the gig economy, make it more difficult to attract and retain hourly employees. The top reasons hourly employees leave their jobs are a lack of schedule empowerment, poor communication with employers, and an inability to get paid early. Gen Z and the millennial workforce demand gig-like flexibility, modern technology, and compelling work options. Legion’s mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs, serving the hourly workers who make up the majority of the US workforce. We believe in empowering employees and helping employers be efficient and innovative by enabling intelligent automation powered by Legion’s Workforce Management platform to optimize labor efficiency and enhance the employee experience simultaneously. 

Legion WFM was built for the cloud with AI at the core and is designed to handle the complexity of modern businesses and meet the needs of today’s hourly employees. Our team is composed of dedicated individuals from all backgrounds and experiences, globally distributed across all time zones. For more information, visit https://legion.co 

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

At Legion, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. As a hybrid employer in Bucharest, Romania, pay for positions is determined using local, national, and industry-specific survey data. We strive to make competitive offers allowing employees room for future growth. Salaries will be based on the applicant’s location, level of experience, education, and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally, we consider the external market rate, the amount we have budgeted internally, and internal equity within the company for the same position. 

Benefits include, but are not limited to: 

• Health Benefits
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Meal Vouchers

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Legion Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.

DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION

For individuals with disabilities who need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email recruiting@legion.co