We’re looking for a developer interested in writing and running the mission-critical collaboration and media import/conversion services of Prezi and building forward-thinking web experiences and interactions for our users. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a grown up start-up, building things millions of people will see every day. You will experience and experiment with new technologies and work with a group of people whom you can learn from and keep pushing things forward. Interest in learning Scala is required.

We are a virtual-first employer with main hubs in the EU and US, we have employees around the globe. This is a remote role and you can work from anywhere within Europe. You’ll report to Hunor Nagy, Senior Engineering Manager.

You should be excited about:

• Working on high performance backend services for document and media asset processing
• Dealing with multiple, different technical stacks and languages
• Having end-to-end responsibility for features across different components
• Thinking like a functional programmer
• Working in a challenging, fast-paced and always changing the environment

Challenges you will be working on:

• Participate in building a micro-service architecture which scales, routes around failure and lets us build complex systems out of small components as well as maintain existing web applications
• Run everything in the cloud (AWS)
• Solve complex cross-stack architectural problems
• Create libraries and services for other teams
• Develop and maintain existing backend services (mostly written in Scala and Python) to ensure they are efficient, reliable and secure enough for our many million users
• Rethink the assumptions that no longer hold in our current architecture
• Participating in on-call rotations to react swiftly to any critical issues
• Work with exciting AI models to improve our user’s editing experience

If you have…

• Interest working with typed functional programming (e.g. Scala, Haskell, F#, Ocaml etc.)
• Experience with static typed languages (e.g. Java, C#, C++)
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures
• Passion for clean, maintainable code
• A keen interest in AI and its applications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering – or equivalent work experience
• Great communication skills in English
• Ability & willingness to learn fast and pick up new things easily

…then we would love to talk to you/

Bonus if you have experience with the following technologies:

• Distributed systems
• Amazon AWS
• Akka/Cats/ZIO toolkit
• Build systems, Continuous Integration
• Docker, Kubernetes
• JVM and Linux
• Databases (MySQL or equivalent)
• Machine Learning models