Senior Backend Engineer - Croatia

Join HiBob, a fast-growing HR platform that helps modern businesses manage their people effectively. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, and scaling our core platform and features. You will work closely with the Product team and leverage cutting-edge AI-assisted workflows and development tools. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a vibrant and dynamic company with a strong culture and a focus on growth and performance.

Designing, building, and scaling the core platform and features in close partnership with Product.

Responsibilities

• Leveraging cutting-edge AI-assisted workflows and agentic development tools to accelerate delivery.

Requirements

• Ensuring architectural integrity while implementing modern engineering practices and methodologies.
• Requirements are often considered a measure of how equipped you are to do the job, but sometimes, they aren’t the only factor. If you don’t have nearly enough experience, or not all the skills, we’d still like to hear from you. This could be the perfect fit for you and us.
• Strong track record in backend system architecture, distributed systems, and database design.
• Familiarity with modern AI developer tools and pragmatic engineering practices.
• Deep understanding of monitoring, observability, and zero-downtime deployments.
• Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture.
• Experience with testing methodologies - unit-testing, TDD, mocking, etc.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Independent, fast learner, and excited about learning new technologies.
• Proactive team player with a desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers.

Preferred

• Experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform is a plus.