5 months ago
Bucharest, RomaniaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Shape Masabi’s platform architecture, including platform blueprints, standards, and best practices.
- Shape data architecture and strategy for structuring, storing, and using platform-generated data.
- Design and deliver scalable, robust, and cost-efficient services.
- Remain hands-on through coding, technical design, code reviews, and targeted contributions.
- Address complex platform challenges involving scalability, performance, resilience, and cost.
- Advise and influence engineering teams on technical decisions and standards.
- Contribute to technical roadmap planning, prioritization, architecture governance, forums, and working groups.
- Support RFP estimation and technical scoping for complex initiatives.
- Produce technical documentation and architecture artifacts for technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Strong experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures.
- Experience operating at Principal or Staff level and shaping technical direction across multiple teams or domains.
- Ability to contribute hands-on to code, design, and delivery.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and modern infrastructure practices.
- Experience making scale, reliability, performance, and cost trade-offs.
- Proven experience in data architecture, including data platforms, pipelines, warehousing, data lakes, or products built on large data stores.
- Ability to turn loosely defined business or technical problems into clear, actionable technical approaches.
- Experience contributing to engineering standards, architecture patterns, or platform direction.
- Strong experience with REST API design in complex, multi-service environments, ideally including front-end API consumption.
- Interest in or exposure to AI-enabled systems and their production architecture implications.
- Nice-to-have experience decomposing monoliths into microservices, working with event-driven architectures and Kafka, improving cloud cost and efficiency at scale, and using Kotlin, Java, DynamoDB, MySQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD.
Benefits
- Fully remote work for candidates based in Romania.
- 25 days of annual holiday plus a Christmas shutdown of another 3–4 days.
- Premium medical care through Regina Maria, mental health support, and menopause support.
- Regular social gatherings with a monthly employee allowance.
- Up to €1000 annual training budget.
- €200 home-office allowance and a choice of workstation.
- Ability to work from any country in the world for up to 3 months per year.
Tech Stack
About Masabi
Masabi builds fare-payment and ticketing platforms for public transit agencies, offering mobile ticketing, account-based ticketing, and open payments through its Justride platform. The company sells its software and services to transport authorities and operators, enabling riders to pay via apps, ticket machines, or contactless bank cards. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, it is privately held and serves agencies in North America and Europe.