Staff Backend Engineer- Core Platform

Were looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.
As a Staff SW Engineer on the Customer Lifecycle Management team, you will be tasked with joining our dedicated platform team committed to providing essential services that support the success of other developer teams. Your primary customers will be fellow our company developers who rely on our department's key services, including identity and user management, metering, and license management; in this role, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth functioning of these critical components and empower our users to achieve their goals.
We are seeking a seasoned colleague with the ability to lead epics, features, and inspire others, while participating extensively in the architecture of the new solutions we're building to elevate the entire journey of our customers-creating new features and scalable systems, rebuilding existing ones from scratch, and providing comprehensive, robust APIs that help both S1 and our customers/partners manage customer-centric interactions within our flagship SaaS platform.
Join our international team of 9 (with colleagues across Brno, Prague, Slovakia, and Israel) and become an integral part of a friendly, collaborative, pragmatic, professional, and diverse group of individuals who are ready to tackle major SW engineering challenges!
Your stack: Java (v21), Spring framework family (Boot, Web, Web-Flux, Cloud), Gradle, Jooq; Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP across multiple cloudregions, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana. To enable you in your work, we provide company access Claude Code
What will you do?
Primary responsibilities include:
Collaborate across teams - to shape and define system requirements, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
Design and drive projects - lead execution of high-priority, high-visibility platform projects, ensuring timely delivery and exceptional quality.
Own feature development - take full ownership of the feature development lifecycle, from refining requirements through to successful production deployment, ensuring seamless integration and functionality.
Build and maintain secure and scalable backend - infrastructure that serves as the backbone for other development teams, supporting their needs and enhancing overall system performance.
Ensure efficiency and performance - develop solutions that guarantee reliability, scalability, and optimal performance, leveraging best practices and modern technologies.
Conduct code reviews - provide constructive feedback, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high-quality code standards.
Troubleshoot complex issues - quickly identify, diagnose, and resolve, minimize downtime and ensuring smooth operations; be part of rotating on-call duty to respond/troubleshoot to the outage incidents.