Principal Backend Engineer (Architect Track) - Remote

Beogradremoteprincipal

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About this role

Novakid is an online English platform for kids — 100,000+ students, 2,500+ teachers, 15+ countries. Live classes run around the clock across time zones, which sets the technical bar: low latency, high availability, and a backend that holds up at real scale. We’ve built a working platform. The next chapter is making deliberate architectural choices about how it should evolve. The role We’re hiring a Principal Backend Engineer to take ownership of backend architecture as a hands-on technical leader. No direct reports. About half your time is in the code — reference implementations, critical components, refactors. The other half is the harder work: deciding what to build, what to buy, what to defer, and why.…

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