Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Aiven

Aiven is a global leader in the cloud data and AI space, offering fully managed open-source data technologies like Apache Kafka®, PostgreSQL®, ClickHouse®, and OpenSearch® across all major clouds. With a global team of over 400 professionals, Aiven supports more than 1000 customers in over 50 countries, including industry leaders such as Wolt, Decathlon, Priceline, Comcast, Fiverr, and much more. Aiven platform handles impressive workloads, managing hundreds of million requests per hour for clients, while delivering 99.99% uptime and sub-millisecond latency. Aiven's commitment to innovation and excellence makes it an exceptional place to work for those passionate about cutting-edge technology and impactful solutions.

The Role:

The team is focusing on growth technologies, developing AI tools and Database optimization capabilities, following the acquisition of EverSQL. EverSQL by Aiven offers an AI-powered database optimization platform, allowing customers to accelerate their data workflows, while also reducing costs. Already trusted by more than 100,000 software engineers, the solution reduces development time and saves the cost of database experts by using automatic optimization algorithms for database query tuning, index recommendations and more. EverSQL supports a variety of databases, including PostgreSQL®, MySQL® and more.

We are looking for an experienced engineer to work on our AI Initiatives, AI App builder and  database optimization platform. You’ll be part of a development team in our databases and AI domain. Our backend systems are mostly implemented in Python, with bits of Go and C, And for the frontend.  On the frontend, we use React and TypeScript.

What You'll Do:

• Writing high quality, maintainable code and releasing quality features
• Contributing to technical planning and backlog management
• Helping investigate and resolve customer issues
• Mentor and empower other engineers around you

What We're Looking For:

Don’t worry if your experience doesn’t line up perfectly – we still encourage you to apply! We believe in investing in our crabs’ professional growth.

Must-have:

• Excellent development skills in Python, TypeScript, and React 
• Excellent understanding of SQL and databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch)
• Ability to independently solve challenges, break tasks and push to desired outcome
• Ability to write good automated tests
• Experience using Linux in development
• Fluency in English, verbal and written

Nice to have:

• Distributed systems knowledge

Our Offer

If you ask us what’s the best thing about working for Aiven, many will probably say it’s the high concentration of talent from around the world that we have here. Enjoy the agile environment of a hyperscale scale-up where you can truly make an impact and have fun while at it.

We invest in you

• Participate in Aiven’s equity plan.
• Monthly lunch budget (Cibus)
• Study fund
• With Aiven locations spanning the globe, we want all of our crabs to find the right balance with our hybrid work policy.
• Get the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Step up your career game with real employer support (use one of our learning platforms, annual learning budget, and more).
• Get holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.

Make a difference at Aiven

• Contribute to open source projects that you find meaningful outside of work - and get paid for it! Our Plankton program recognizes extra work to the open source ecosystem for developers and non-developers alike.
• Use up to 5 days per year to volunteer for a good cause of your choice.
• Join one of our team member resource groups - empower yourself and others in missions that resonate with you.

Amazing! What’s next?

If you think Aiven is the place for you, send us your CV and we’ll get in touch.

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