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Full-Stack / Backend Platform Engineer

Medior–Senior · Remote now · Later hybrid (2–3 days in office)

Apply via email2–3 lines + LinkedIn/GitHub is enough.

What you’ll build

  • Cloud-native backend services for real-time education on GCP
  • APIs and infrastructure that connect teachers with multiple students
  • Event-driven systems (streams/queues) and reliability tooling
  • Developer experience: CI/CD, tests, pre-submit checks, deployments

What we’re looking for

  • Strong backend engineering + ownership mindset
  • Experience with cloud (GCP preferred) and production systems
  • Comfortable with databases (PostgreSQL), caching/streams (Redis)
  • Bonus: NestJS/Node, Go, Python, GraphQL, video systems (WebRTC/LiveKit)

Why Oktatron

Small core team (4 people)High ownershipResearch-driven engineeringHungarian market → US/global

Who you’ll work with

  • A small founder-led team (currently 4 people)
  • Teachers + engineers — real classroom feedback in the loop
  • You’ll work closely with the founders on architecture and prioritization

What success looks like (30 / 60 / 90 days)

30 days
  • Get the dev stack running locally + in the cloud
  • Ship a small production improvement (tests, CI, or API)
  • Understand the real-time lesson flow end-to-end
60 days
  • Own one backend service area (API, streams, or storage)
  • Improve reliability: logging, metrics, and sane deploys
  • Help shape the architecture for scale (Hungary → US)
90 days
  • Deliver a meaningful feature end-to-end
  • Set standards for code quality, testing, and DX
  • Be a core owner of the platform roadmap

Apply

ű Send a short note + LinkedIn/GitHub/CV. If you have relevant projects, include links.

  • 2–3 lines about what you want to build
  • LinkedIn or CV
  • GitHub / projects (if relevant)
Apply via email