Staff Backend Engineer
Genestack Ltd2 months ago
Belgrade, SerbiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Maintain and evolve the system core, APIs, and related backend components.
- Optimize data storage and backend systems for throughput, latency, and scalability.
- Drive architectural evolution and manage technical debt in alignment with the product vision.
- Adapt APIs and infrastructure for current and future AI/ML-driven workloads.
- Lead system-level refactoring and define and achieve performance benchmarks.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Promote an agentic engineering culture by leading by example.
- Collaborate closely with the Head of Engineering on product architecture.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
- Deep understanding of object-oriented programming, algorithms, and data structures.
- Extensive experience with relational database management systems, columnar databases, search engines, and other NoSQL technologies.
- Strong experience with messaging systems.
- Proven experience in agentic engineering and system-level refactoring.
- Expert-level Java or Kotlin skills.
- Ability to detect and resolve performance bottlenecks and define and achieve performance benchmarks.
- Ability to learn quickly in complex domains, with interest in life sciences, data science, and ML/AI applications.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and fluent English.
- Preferred: knowledge of biology and genetics, experience with profiling, tracing, or performance tools, and familiarity with Python.
Benefits
- 100% remote work option.
- Comfortable office in the historical center of Belgrade.
- Medical insurance and fully paid sick leave.
- Onboarding and domain training for newcomers.
- Flexible work schedule.
- International team of professionals.
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About Genestack Ltd
Genestack builds multi-omics data management and integration software for life-science R&D, delivered as SaaS and supported by consulting and implementation services. Its flagship Omics Data Manager creates FAIR catalogues of studies, samples, and datasets, with bulk metadata curation and APIs for cross-study, cross-omics search. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cambridge, England, the privately held company serves pharma, biotech, agriscience, consumer goods, and academic research organizations worldwide.