1 month ago
Kaunas, Lithuania or Vilnius, LithuaniaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build APIs, internal services, email applications, authentication, provisioning, webhooks, websockets, routing, policy, and spam-filtering systems.
- Own features end to end from discovery and implementation through deployment and production follow-up.
- Develop primarily in PHP and use Go for high-scale, high-availability components.
- Optimize database queries and application performance for millions of mailboxes.
- Harden authentication, session handling, and other security-sensitive product areas.
- Monitor production systems with Grafana and Sentry and improve tooling, automation, and documentation.
- Participate in system design, code reviews, and collaboration with infrastructure, security, network, storage, QA, and customer support teams.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, clean architecture, and sound engineering judgment, primarily applied in PHP.
- Ability to reason about system-design trade-offs such as consistency versus latency and synchronous versus asynchronous processing.
- Understanding of distributed and event-driven systems, including queues, webhooks, retries, and idempotency.
- Knowledge of databases, caches, and queues, including schema design and indexing.
- Understanding of REST API design, versioning, and backward compatibility.
- Hands-on Go experience is preferred but not required.
- Familiarity with IMAP and SMTP, WebSockets or pub/sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka/Redpanda, or ClickHouse is preferred.
- Comfort working with AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible work from Hostinger offices in Kaunas and Vilnius, from home, or anywhere in the world, with flexible scheduling.
- Health insurance from Day 1, gym memberships, recharge leave, Headspace subscriptions, and regular health checks.
- Learning and development support including Reforge, CoachHub, conferences, libraries, mentoring, and internal mobility.
- Company events, team-building activities, workations, and milestone gifts.
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About Hostinger
Hostinger provides shared, cloud, and VPS web hosting, domain registration, a website builder, WordPress and eCommerce tooling, and business email for individuals, SMBs, and web professionals. The privately held company, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, serves more than 5.5 million clients across 150 countries. Its platform spans 14 data centers across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia and operates on 100% renewable electricity.