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Our qualifications serve as guidance, and we welcome candidates who bring relevant experience, a fresh perspective, and the drive to grow with us.\nYou bring:\nStrong experience in backend software engineering, including responsibility for the technical design and delivery of backend services or products.\nExperience providing technical leadership, architectural guidance, or mentoring to other engineers.\nPractical experience designing, building, and operating serverless infrastructure on AWS or another major cloud provider.\nA strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, security principles, and multi-tenant architectures.\nExperience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, AWS CodeBuild, or comparable solutions.\nExperience with infrastructure as code using tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK.\nA track record of making and clearly explaining technical decisions in a collaborative environment.\nAn ownership mindset and an interest in supporting applications throughout their entire lifecycle.\nThe ability to coach and support engineers while encouraging autonomy and constructive technical discussion.\nPragmatic judgment when selecting technologies and balancing long-term quality with delivery needs.\nStrong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.\nExcellent English communication skills.\nWhy us?\nAt ProGlove, you will join an international company building wearable and software solutions that help frontline workers in logistics, manufacturing, retail and automotive work safer, faster and smarter.\nIn this role, you will have the opportunity to shape how we attract, assess and hire talent across the organization, while contributing to broader People initiatives as the company’s needs evolve.\nWe offer:\nA hybrid working model based in our Belgrade office, with three on-site days per week.\n28 days of paid vacation per year, in addition to all Serbian public holidays.\nDedicated learning and development time within working hours.\nPrivate health insurance and a fitness membership.\nA choice of IT equipment from ProGlove’s supported device list.\nRegular team and office events.\nCollaboration with colleagues and hiring teams across Belgrade, Munich, Chicago and Coventry.\nThe opportunity to take real ownership, improve existing processes and have a visible impact on how ProGlove grows its teams.\nHealth Program: Our global ProHealth Program prioritizes the physical and mental well-being of all our team members - you will have private health insurance, and fitness membership \nWhat success looks like\nIn this role, success means that you:\nBuild a strong understanding of our products, backend architecture, customer needs, and engineering environment.\nEstablish trusted working relationships within the backend team and across Product, Engineering, and customer-facing functions.\nProvide clear technical direction and help the team make consistent, well-informed architectural decisions.\nContribute hands-on to backend services and support the successful delivery of team priorities.\nIdentify technical risks and improvement opportunities and translate them into clear, actionable priorities.\nStrengthen the reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability of our backend systems.\nHelp engineers grow while supporting their autonomy and ownership.\nBalance long-term technical quality with customer needs and delivery priorities.\nMeet your team\nYou will join a collaborative, cross-functional Product and Engineering environment working on the technology behind ProGlove’s connected-worker solutions.\nYou will work closely with backend engineers as well as colleagues from embedded, mobile, frontend, QA, Product, and customer-facing teams. 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