Backend Engineer

🇨🇿 Czech Republic - Remote
💻 Software Development🔵 Mid-level

Job description

Emplifi’s unified customer engagement platform empowers over 20,000 leading brands to elevate their digital and social customer experience. By integrating social media marketing, commerce, care, unified analytics, and AI, we help companies grow through happier customers, better product sales, and stronger brand loyalty.

We process 100,000–200,000 I/O operations per second — and growing. To support this scale, we’re looking for a Backend Engineer to help evolve our platform.

You’ll join a collaborative, friendly team focused on building a reliable, scalable, observable, and maintainable system. We value creativity, discipline, and a good sense of humor.

What You’ll Do Here

  • Maintain and extend our platform with new features.
  • Monitor system performance and logs, address issues, and build tools for observability.
  • Write clean, well-tested code.
  • Review code to uphold our quality standards.
  • Actively contribute to our Scrum process.
  • Continuously grow your skills to advance your career and move the platform forward.
  • Optional: Contribute to frontend tasks if you’re interested.
  • Collaborate with a team of supportive professionals.
  • Have fun, explore, and experiment.

What You’ll Bring To Us

  • 3+ years of experience with Node.js.
  • Solid understanding of clean code and testing principles.
  • Familiarity with database systems.
  • Experience using Git and modern development workflows.
  • Bonus: experience with distributed systems or high-throughput environments.

Our Tech Stack

  • Languages & Frameworks: Node.js, TypeScript
  • Infrastructure: AWS
  • Databases: SQL & NoSQL (Elastic, MongoDB, Redis)
  • Messaging/Streaming: RabbitMQ, Kinesis
  • Tools: GitLab

Why Join Us?

  • Work with friendly, experienced engineers who help each other succeed.
  • Gain deep expertise in building high-throughput data pipelines.
  • Be part of a company with a global impact and strong technical challenges.
  • Take ownership of your growth and career path.

What We Offer

  • Unlimited Vacation, 3 sick days, home office
  • Internal tech talks, Udemy courses, and workshops
  • Maternity and Parental Benefit
  • Meetups & conferences
  • Multisport card
  • Agile and open-minded culture, with high levels of trust and flexibility
  • Possibility to learn new and cutting-edge technologies in an environment that encourages new ideas
  • Possibility to work from offices in Prague (Karlin), Brno (Impact Hub), Pilsen (Roudná)
  • Chance to compete in a ping-pong tournament or to enjoy table football, PlayStation, Ergonomic exercise, or run with colleagues, and nearly all year-round grilling parties and other team-building opportunities
  • There’s more as well! Speak with us to find out all the details!

At Emplifi, we are committed to creating a workplace where everyone is valued, respected, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, and LGBTQ+ communities.

Emplifi offers a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment where every employee has the opportunity to thrive and is encouraged to be who they are.

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