Backend Engineer (Perl)

Backend Developer (Perl): Compute Solutions

Limassol, Cyprus · Remote · €5,000-6,000/month

We’re recruiting for a specialty cloud provider that serves businesses worldwide, from agencies scaling client sites to enterprises running mission-critical operations. Its Compute Solutions team builds and runs the VPS, Cloud Dedicated, storage and bare metal products customers rely on for their cloud infrastructure, and it’s looking for a backend engineer who enjoys owning their work from start to finish.

The role in a nutshell

You’ll own features end to end: the spec, the code, the tests and how it all behaves in production. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports. You’re the engineer who answers for whether what you shipped actually works.

Writing the pull request is the visible part. The real job is everything around it:

• turning a loosely worded need into something precise enough to build;
• spotting what could break before it does;
• proving a change is correct rather than just saying it is;
• staying with it once it’s live.

What you’ll be doing

• Taking features from spec through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring and production support across VPS, Cloud Dedicated, storage and bare metal.
• Building and maintaining backend services, APIs, data flows and integrations.
• Designing and maintaining database-backed functionality, with a focus on correctness, performance and reliability.
• Turning requirements into clear technical specs and flagging unknowns, dependencies and failure scenarios early.
• Using AI-assisted tools every day, while critically checking the generated code and owning the result.
• Writing tests with every change, covering failure scenarios as well as the happy path.
• Reviewing teammates’ code and giving clear, actionable feedback.
• Improving existing and legacy code in small steps, without unnecessary rewrites.
• Taking your turn on the on-call rotation: responding to incidents, helping find root causes and following fixes through.
• Mentoring less experienced engineers and coordinating with other teams early to avoid blockers.

How the team works

The focus is on predictable, reliable delivery of quality software. You’ll know which few things matter most this month and why, and you’ll say so when the work in front of you isn’t one of them.

Most code is AI-generated now, so the value sits on either side of it: specifying exactly what to build, and verifying that what comes back is correct, secure and operable. Whoever ships it owns it, whatever wrote it.

You won’t own the roadmap, but you’ll understand what the customer gets from your work. The engineers who move fastest here ask “why” early. And when a date is at risk, you say so early and in writing, with evidence.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years in backend engineering and production systems.
• 5+ years with Perl.
• 5+ years with PostgreSQL or a similar relational database, with strong SQL.
• A solid grasp of backend architecture, APIs and data-driven systems.
• Experience building, testing, deploying and supporting production software, including automated tests.
• The ability to read unfamiliar code and troubleshoot across a production system.
• On-call experience and incident response.
• Hands-on, day-to-day use of AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Clear written communication and comfort working remotely in a distributed team across time zones.

Nice to have

• Linux server administration (5+ years).
• KVM administration or other virtualization environments (5+ years).
• Experience with VPS, bare metal, storage or cloud infrastructure products.
• Experience in managed hosting, cloud platforms or other high-availability environments.
• Work with complex or legacy backend systems.
• Mentoring engineers and reviewing design and code.

What’s on offer

• €4,000-6,000 a month, plus all the equipment you need.
• An international team of professionals.
• Plenty of opportunity to practise and improve your English.
• An employee referral programme with bonuses.
• Relocation package