Senior Backend Engineer II, Resilience

Location: Vilnius or Kaunas, Lithuania; hybrid model with 2 recommended office days per week

Gross monthly salary: €6,900–€9,333

Company

hirify.global operates a second-hand marketplace, shipping services, and payment products across Europe.

What you will do

• Develop platform capabilities that help Marketplace engineers build scalable systems.
• Investigate and improve system stability and performance.
• Advise engineers on building robust, highly available systems.
• Write code affecting more than 80M users and handling over 10M requests per minute.
• Participate in an on-call rotation every 5–6 weeks.

Requirements

• Experience building and supporting large-scale applications.
• Strong understanding of how infrastructure and code work together.
• Strong spoken and written English communication skills for discussing complex topics and collaborating across cultures.
• Analytical and acute problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to learn and master new technologies and concepts.
• Familiarity with most and deep knowledge in some of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Structures, and Algorithms, depending on seniority.
• Motivation to solve challenging engineering problems requiring deep technical understanding, perseverance, and collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, performance optimization, and monitoring.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with flexibility to work from home and up to 90 EU workation days per year; up to 21 days can be spent globally.
• 25 working days of holiday, private health insurance, pension plan with matching contributions, and an employee assistance program.
• Share options, a personal hirify.global shopping budget, home-office equipment support up to €540, and a learning budget starting at €3,000.
• Newest MacBook models, office gym, on-site canteen, dog-friendly office, and team-building events.
• Up to 10 working days over two years for personal and professional development.