Overview

We’re looking for a developer interested in writing and running the mission-critical collaboration related 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 growing 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 and keep pushing things forward. This position is located in our Budapest office.

You should be excited about:

  • Joining a team that focuses on the collaborative editing experience in our products
  • 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:

  • Build and polish collaborative features in the Prezi Next product
  • Participate in building a microservice 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

Requirements:

  • Interest working with typed functional programming (e.g. Scala, Haskell, F#, Ocaml etc.)
  • Passion for clean, maintainable code

Advantages:

  • Experience with languages that compile to Javascript (e.g. Typescript, Haxe)
  • Working C++ knowledge
  • Knowledge of build systems, Continuous Integration
  • Experience with Docker or other container technologies
  • Knowledge of the JVM and/or Linux

General requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering – equivalent work experience is acceptable
  • Must demonstrate either significant personal or professional experience in software development
  • Able to meet deadlines, work within an international environment, exchange knowledge with colleagues, and be up-to-date with new trends
  • Ability & willingness to learn fast and pick up new things easily
  • Analyze and solve programming tasks independently and proactively
  • Strong critical thinking skills
  • Great communication skills in English