Hybrid Staff Backend Software Engineer

at Orfium

• Job title: Staff Backend Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Django, Docker, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud Platform, Java, Kubernetes, Microservices, Postgres, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Spring, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Athens, Greece

About the role

• Staff Backend Software Engineer for B2B music industry products. Designing and implementing backend systems with a focus on scalability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Architect & Design: Lead the design of scalable, complex systems that align with the company's technical roadmap and ensure high availability and performance.
• Lead & Drive: Lead cross-functional teams on large technical projects from inception to delivery, ensuring alignment with both technical and business objectives.
• Mentor & Grow: Provide mentorship to senior engineers and emerging technical leaders, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Influence: Shape the company’s technical direction by influencing architectural decisions, technology choices, and engineering practices across teams.
• Align: Ensure technical alignment across multiple teams, coordinating with engineering leaders to maintain consistency and shared technical direction.
• Solve: Take ownership of solving the most complex technical challenges, ensuring system scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Document & Communicate: Clearly document architectural decisions and communicate them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strategize: Contribute to the company’s technical strategy, influencing the roadmap and long-term technical vision.
• Innovate: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, proposing new tools, frameworks, and methodologies that can benefit the organization.

Requirements

• Experience:
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in designing and scaling complex software systems in production environments.
• Extensive experience with system design and architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with modern Web Development Frameworks (e.g., Django, FastAPI, Ruby on Rails, Spring, ExpressJS).
• Expertise in object-oriented development (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, C#).
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL).
• Leadership & Mentorship:
• Proven experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers across multiple levels.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams.
• Technical Expertise:
• Deep understanding of software architecture patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven architecture, CQRS).
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and distributed systems.
• Experience with DevOps practices and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of software development best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, TDD, auto-scaling and observability.
• Skills:
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to influence at both the team and organizational levels.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proven track record of solving large-scale technical challenges in a production environment.
• Ability to work across teams to ensure technical alignment and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on high-level architecture and system-wide performance.
• Nice to Have
• Expertise with cloud-native architectures and services (serverless, containers, microservices).
• Experience with ElasticSearch and data-intensive applications.
• Proficiency in asynchronous programming and high-performance, low-latency systems.
• Experience in developing real-time systems or working with streaming data pipelines.
• Passion for mentoring and building high-performance technical teams.
• Love for music and understanding of the music industry’s technical challenges.

Benefits

• 💰 Competitive salary package and participation in our Stock Options plan****
• 🏠 Hybrid work model with flexibility to support your lifestyle****
• 🏥 Comprehensive private health and life insurance coverage****
• 🌴 Extra paid time off to recharge and take care of yourself****
• 💻 The latest tech equipment to support your productivity and creativity****
• 🌍 A collaborative, inclusive, and international work environment