Iasi, Romania (Hybrid) Hybrid

Cresta is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Iasi)

About the Role

The role involves building and optimizing backend services, ensuring system reliability, and contributing to architectural decisions within a collaborative engineering environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement robust backend services
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define technical requirements
  • Optimize system performance and scalability
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
  • Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
  • Ensure high availability and fault tolerance of services
  • Integrate with data storage and messaging systems
  • Support deployment and monitoring of backend systems
  • Contribute to API design and documentation
  • Work with distributed systems and microservices architecture
  • Implement security best practices across services
  • Mentor junior engineers and share technical knowledge
  • Evaluate and adopt new technologies when appropriate
  • Drive improvements in development workflows and tooling
  • Maintain system observability through logging and metrics
  • Collaborate on incident response and on-call rotations
  • Ensure compliance with data privacy and regulatory standards
  • Support continuous integration and delivery pipelines
  • Participate in architectural planning and system design
  • Balance technical debt with feature development
  • Promote engineering best practices across the team
  • Contribute to disaster recovery and backup strategies
  • Work with asynchronous processing and event-driven systems
  • Support data consistency and integrity across services

Nice to Have

  • Master’s degree in computer science or related field
  • Experience with large-scale real-time systems
  • Background in machine learning infrastructure
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes in production
  • Contributions to open-source software
  • Experience with service mesh technologies
  • Knowledge of advanced database systems
  • Exposure to low-latency system design
  • Leadership experience in technical projects
  • Public speaking or conference participation

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility for remote work

Team

Part of a high-performing engineering team focused on scalable backend systems

Why Join Us

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in a fast-growing environment
  • Collaborative culture that values technical excellence and innovation
  • Support for professional growth and continuous learning

Technology Stack

  • Primary languages include Go and Python
  • Infrastructure built on Kubernetes and cloud providers
  • Databases include PostgreSQL and time-series solutions
  • Monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana
  • Messaging with Kafka and Pub/Sub systems

Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates

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Cresta

Transforming CX with Generative AI

Exceptional customer experiences are the foundation of every great business. That's why we're on a mission to unlock the full potential of every customer conversation. How? With human-centric agentic AI that delights customers with intelligent automation, empowers humans to work smarter and faster, and turns strategic insights into better business outcomes.

Cresta delivers a unified platform for human and AI Agents built for enterprise scale, helping companies save money, increase revenue, and build customer loyalty through AI-powered customer experience solutions.

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