Sr. Backend Engineer - Platform & Cloud Systems - Veridion
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Sr. Backend Engineer – Platform & Cloud Systems
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Who we are

  • We’re an early-stage VC-backed start-up that has raised $9M to date from VC funds and private investors. Founded in 2019 by Florin Tufan, Mihai Vinaga and Sorina Vlasceanu, we’re currently a team of 50+ driven individuals, mostly engineers and technical people, investing our time to solve problems that haven’t been solved before anywhere in the world.
  • Even as a young company, at the beginning of our exponential growth, we already work with some of the largest companies in the world. We bring together exceptional minds and characters, people with a growth mindset, strongly committed to achieving high performance, both individually and as a team.

Who you are

  • Determined, resourceful and altruistic, you prefer simple and straightforward communication and tend to be motivated by obstacles, not discouraged by them. You enjoy identifying and solving complex problems and don’t shy away from stepping out of your comfort zone, as you love learning more than you hate making mistakes.
  • A High-Achiever, as proven by your extra-curricular, professional or academic experience, passionate about exploring the way different areas related to your activity impact your end results. Technically grounded, you are standards-driven and able to lead by example.

What we do

  • We’re building the single source of truth for company data across all industries. We process billions of webpages and petabytes of data every week, then apply several AI models to break them down into usable business data, developing a deep understanding of the elements that define a business.
  • This results in tens of data points associated with each company, everything from company description, alternative names, tags, business category & industry, office and retail locations, risks, size, classifications, products, certifications, and beyond.

What you‘ll do

  • You will help scale our client-facing APIs by building clean, distributed, and resilient services on modern infrastructure. You’ll own APIs from code to prod, understand how to scale distributed data systems like Elasticsearch or Postgres, and enforce engineering best practices across CI/CD, security, and system design. All while operating in a real-world engineering environment: shipping fast, reliably, and responsibly.
  • You will work closely with Sorina (VP of Engineering & Co-Founder), Radu & Stefan, and dive into complex issues together with our Data & ML Engineering teams led by Mihai (CTO & Co-Founder), while also supporting PreSales efforts with various tools that depict the value of our data.

What we value

  • We do remarkable work through breakthrough technology.
  • We’re loyal to the outcome of the positive synergy between us.
  • We’re persistent in our mission and dedicate outstanding effort for long term impact.

What you embody

  • You do remarkable work through impeccable work ethic.
  • You’re loyal to the end goal, your team and yourself.
  • You’re persistent in your commitment and go the extra mile for long term impact.

What it’s really like to work with us

  • We don’t settle for mediocre results and set our ambition up for the inevitable delayed gratification, as excellence requires significant time and effort.
  • We use the right tool for the job. No workarounds, no cutting corners. Breakthrough technology declutters our day to day and gives us the space to channel our efforts on what can’t be compensated for — the best use of our skills and abilities.
  • We make sure there’s a fair exchange between what each of us offers and what we get in return.
  • We’re life-long learners who can’t stop, won’t stop at what they already know, striving to be better and see each other grow.
  • Forget about micromanagement. Everyone here has a strong sense of ownership (we’re like start-ups within a start-up).
  • We know from the get-go that excellence requires discomfort and it’s not going to get easier soon.
  • Our team is based in Sky Tower, Bucharest. Discussions around the office are often hilarious, mind-expanding and quick-witted. Our regular hybrid setup is 2 remote days per week after the trial period, which is fully onsite.

What it should really be like to work with you

  • You’re team-centric, knowing it gets you way further than acting egocentric ever could. You don’t look the other way when it comes to helping your colleagues succeed.
  • You’re humbly aware that real growth means sacrificing the immediate gain in favor of long-term rewards.
  • You demonstrate resilience, especially in front of failure, that is always paired with pioneering work.
  • As a big picture thinker, you’re equally comfortable with zooming in on a granular level, inclined to examine things from different perspectives and question the default.
  • You hold yourself accountable to deliver at your best and are ready to have your ideas challenged anytime. You value two-way feedback as a vital part of further improvement.
  • You get excited when exploring varied thought-provoking topics and feel this kind of conversations are worth having.
  • You see the benefits of face to face interaction, spontaneous brainstorming sessions and close collaboration. You enjoy hybrid work and want to make the most out of connecting with people in your professional life, as well.

Our responsibilities

  • Update you on the progress of our recruitment process.
  • Validate expectations, goals and priorities with you.
  • Provide the tools and resources to help you succeed.
  • Give you the space to try new things out (your way).
  • Grant you the freedom to make reasoned decisions and own them.
  • Share relevant information and encourage you to be an active part in discussions about what we’re building, how we’re building it and why it’s important.
  • Cultivate a healthy, merit-based work environment where you can openly say what’s on your mind.
  • Listen actively so we can fully understand your perspective.
  • Provide guidance and actionable feedback for your further growth.
  • Celebrate your wins and give value-based recognition for your achievements.

Your responsibilities

  • Own the APIs: build and operate clean, fast, scalable APIs that power customer-facing features. Ship code that runs reliably in production and is easy to maintain.
  • Design for scale & availability: architect APIs and services to scale independently, avoid bottlenecks, and meet high-availability targets (99.9%+).
  • Code quality & architecture: write clean, modular code following modern design patterns. Contribute to establishing and enforcing clean architecture across the team.
  • Distributed system design: make pragmatic decisions about service boundaries, communication patterns, and data ownership. Ensure systems are resilient to failure.
  • CI/CD and SDLC: improve and maintain dev workflows. Enforce testing, version control, and release pipelines as default parts of the development lifecycle.
  • Security hygiene: handle secrets responsibly, use dependency scanning tools, validate inputs, and follow platform security guidelines.
  • Monitoring & diagnostics: build in logs, metrics, and traces. Ensure services are observable and support fast troubleshooting.
  • Team collaboration: review PRs, mentor less experienced engineers, and help define engineering standards. Work cross-functionally with data, platform, and product teams.

Our qualifications

  • Before building Veridion (formerly Soleadify), our 3 co-founders (Sorina, Florin and Mihai) worked at companies that impacted billions of users, having been exposed to diverse areas of technology that span from full stack web development to Big Data and robust Cloud infrastructure, as well as their product and business development proficiency.
  • This broad mix, critical to a true data-driven mindset, has been imprinted in our company’s culture since day one. And it massively steps up our game as engineers.

Your qualifications

  • Backend engineering: 5–10 years of experience. Strong in Node.js or Java. You have built and maintained backend APIs in production environments with proper testing, observability, and deployment practices.
  • Microservices & scalable systems: Experience designing, building, and scaling distributed microservice architectures. You understand independent scaling, service-to-service communication, retries, timeouts, load balancing, and distributed fault isolation (e.g., circuit breakers, bulkheads, failover zones)
  • Distributed data systems: Solid understanding of distributed databases or search systems such as Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL with replication, or other high-scale data stores. You know how to scale, shard, and monitor distributed data systems under real load.
  • Clean architecture & code design: You write clean, modular, and maintainable code. You understand domain-driven design, separation of concerns, and principles like SOLID and DRY. Ability to mentor others in clean code practices.
  • High availability & reliability: You have built systems with 99.9%+ uptime requirements. You think in terms of SLAs, SLOs, and graceful failure. You design systems to handle load spikes, errors, and partial outages without breaking core functionality.
  • Kubernetes + Cloud deployments: Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes, in both cloud and on-prem / bare-metal environments. You know how to manage secrets, configure readiness probes, set resource limits, etc.
  • CI/CD & SDLC best practices: You have worked with structured CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, etc). Familiar with responsible development practices like testing (unit/integration), peer reviews, semantic versioning. You understand release strategies (canary, blue/green), and rollback plans.
  • Security-minded development: You understand responsible engineering practices: secure handling of secrets, basic auth mechanisms, dependency management, and access controls. Not a security expert, but you take these considerations into your normal work. Experience with API gateways.
  • Monitoring & observability: You implement logging, tracing, and alerting from day one. You understand the difference between “it’s deployed” and “it’s live and healthy.” Experience with Dynatrace or similar systems is a plus.
  • Engineering culture driver: You will define and enforce standards around testing, reviews, observability, security, and dev practices. Not afraid to refactor or push back on rushed code.

What we offer

  • The chance to shape an original product in a fast growing company, backed by VC investors
  • A merit-based, no BS, value-oriented and particularly collaborative work environment
  • Groundbreaking professional challenges and the autonomy to try stuff for the very first time, no matter how experienced you are
  • Real mentoring, intense brainstorming sessions and well-informed debates guided by a regular & straight-forward feedback philosophy
  • Pioneering work at the forefront of Big Data, Infrastructure and Machine Learning that sometimes means relying on academic papers as our only formal guiding tools in moving onwards
  • An engineering business culture where you speak the same language with your leaders
  • The thrill of being surrounded by extremely smart, yet humble individuals, a stellar international team that will both enable and encourage you to leave your mark
  • Fair compensation, ESOP and upward salary growth based on performance.

What we expect from you in return

  • High speed and uncompromising quality in your work
  • A growth mindset, able to capitalize on unprecedented contexts through your skills and abilities
  • An appetite to grapple with a variety of technical challenges
  • The ability to quickly and effectively evaluate technical tradeoffs and translate them into relevant scenarios
  • Strong problem solving skills that enhance the way you deal with the tension between brief and shipping
  • Aversion to the idea of any customer or colleague struggling with what you delivered
  • High tolerance for ambiguity, marked by your ambition to push forward with incomplete information
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills for coordinating across teams
  • Passion for software engineering, powered by the drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques (sometimes as soon as they launch)

Full disclosure

The way we work is not for everyone. And that's perfectly fine. We need to be fast as a start-up, so we expect you to be quick on your feet when it comes to making decisions and excited to roll up your sleeves to help the team in any way you can.

Raise the bar

We need people who are zealous about revolutionary technology, highly collaborative work and raising the bar on our product as it is unfolding.

Never settle

You'll be perfect for this role if you're not afraid to use every muscle and are comfortable taking on a lot of responsibility, leaving no stone unturned in your pursuit against the grain.

If you've read this far

You should be able to determine upfront whether you would thrive in a culture like ours. Having your expectations of professional growth in mind, we trust you are able to tell if this opportunity is a potential driver to your success.

First token of ownership

Here's an invitation to take your time and reflect on how much our core values and collective behaviors resonate with you and suit your style.

This way forward

And how much being a part of building something remarkable this way feels right for you going further.

If you're excited about our mission, but don't yet meet 100% of the qualifications above, we still encourage you to apply.

Sr. Backend Engineer – Platform & Cloud Systems application

Now might be a great time to join our team, we're still small and everyone here makes a foundational difference.

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