Hybrid Core Infrastructure Engineer

at Yovo

• Job title: Core Infrastructure Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Budapest, Hungary

About the role

• Core Infrastructure Engineer building and maintaining core infrastructure for fintech startup YOVO. Engineering high-performance systems for checkout, subscription, and hosting platforms in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain YOVO’s core infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance
• Develop robust backend systems powering checkout, subscriptions, authentication, and product hosting
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless development and operations
• Own deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation, and platform-level security
• Work closely with the founding team to drive architecture decisions and long-term technical vision
• Collaborate with product and engineering to support new features, improve platform stability, and reduce operational overhead
• Optimize systems for speed, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Define best practices, engineering standards, and internal tooling as the company grows
• Troubleshoot production issues, analyze performance bottlenecks, and deliver long-term fixes
• Contribute to a fast-moving, high-ownership engineering culture where your decisions define the future of the platform

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in infrastructure, backend, or platform engineering
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar)
• Solid understanding of core infrastructure primitives: compute, networking, databases, observability, caching
• Experience building scalable systems, handling high-availability environments, or payment-grade reliability
• Strong grasp of distributed systems, API design, and modern backend architectures
• Ability to work independently in a remote-first culture and take end-to-end ownership
• Bonus: Experience with fintech, payment processors, subscription systems, or compliance-sensitive environments

Benefits

• Work directly with YOVO’s founding team on high-impact initiatives
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity upside
• Opportunity to shape the core product and brand of a fast-scaling European fintech
• A high-trust, high-ownership environment where your work matters
• Support for personal growth, development, and long-term career progression