Senior Backend Engineer
Genestack Ltd2 months ago
Remote, SerbiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own backend features end to end, including requirements refinement, implementation, and production delivery.
- Challenge and improve product and technical decisions while shaping product architecture.
- Evolve the system core, APIs, and data layer.
- Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability for demanding high-load workloads.
- Balance rapid product delivery with sustainable technical architecture.
- Help develop APIs and infrastructure for AI/ML-driven workloads in drug discovery.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
- Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, algorithms, and data structures.
- Extensive experience with relational database management systems, columnar databases, search engines, and other NoSQL technologies.
- Proven experience in agentic engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin.
- Experience with system-level refactoring and the Spring ecosystem.
- Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Ability to learn quickly in complex domains and communicate and collaborate effectively.
- Fluent English.
- Preferred: knowledge of biology and genetics, experience with profiling, tracing, and performance tools, and familiarity with Python.
- Interest in life sciences, data science, and ML/AI applications.
Benefits
- 100% remote work.
- Flexible work schedule.
- Medical insurance and fully paid sick leave.
- Onboarding and domain training for newcomers.
- International team and a comfortable office in the historical center of Belgrade.
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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.