Platform Engineer for Property Management (m/f/d)

We love challenges. We love to build. We love to make things happen.

At JUSTROCKET we build products, we invest in scalable ideas, we rethink core businesses and processes, we co-found new ventures. And to make all this happen we build teams – but not simply ordinary teams. We build self-organizing, cross-functional teams by empowering its members to take responsibility and ownership in the product-building process. Paired with powerful tools as well as proven and truly followed processes we succeed – as a team.

On top of all that we put together the brightest minds in various areas to create an exceptional network and ecosystem of entrepreneurial-minded and execution-oriented experts. This is the JR Ecosystem.

JUSTROCKET has been building a driven tech community in Cluj-Napoca since 2016.

About the project, we need power for

The property management sector is a huge market with more than 18.000 property managers managing over 10 million building units and being responsible for complex workflows. ​Property managers are still missing the key centerpiece to digitize their processes: a state-of-the-art, workflow-oriented, and user-friendly digital operating platform.

We set out to take on this challenge and reshape a stale industry by simplifying complex workflows and making the lives of property managers much easier. At the current state, we’ve already reached an important milestone in building an MVP and being live with pilot customers since the beginning of this year, but the journey to the envisaged summit of delivering a truly unique and innovative operating platform for our clients has just begun. As part of this journey, you will be able to solve problems for a large market and imprint your own handwriting onto the product, thereby making yourself a name in the B2B SaaS space.

We are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be

responsible for building and managing the infrastructure that supports our software applications and services. This role requires expertise in cloud technologies, automation, and infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure our platforms are reliable, scalable, and secure.

You will be implementing and ensuring efficient/performant workflows & delivering new features, across the stack (frontend and backend), and taking proactive standing in technically designing new solutions.

You will be efficiently collaborating with Developers, POs, Designers, and Customer support (around 20 people) in an environment of continuous delivery of a high-quality product.

Activities will include:

⏩ Ensure performant, cost-efficient, and secure operation of the production environment (currently: AWS managed by Terraform)

⏩ Maintain backup services & practice disaster recovery scenarios

⏩ Assist & resolve critical service degradations

⏩ Provide the internal teams with well-maintained tooling (currently: servers/k8s deployments managed by Ansible)

⏩ Ensure the CI/CD pipeline runs stable for feature teams to work efficiently

⏩ Build data-connected workflows to support the Datadriven work mode of departments

⏩ Develop the CI/CD pipeline’s QA Automation

⏩ Guide team with best practices

You shall bring:

✅ 5+ years of experience as a software engineer having worked with backend technologies such as Java (preferred) or C#, Python, etc.

✅ Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar role.

✅ Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

✅ Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).

✅ Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.).

✅ Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).

✅ Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI). and understanding of QA automation principles and can apply them to assist the team

with high-quality feature delivery

✅ Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).

✅ You are fluent/comfortable in English (cross-border team communication) and willing to work in an international team

Nice to have:

⏩ Previous experience working at a startup is a big plus

⏩ Experience and passion for solving complex performance issues that involve

rearchitecting modifying backend

The general tech stack of the project is

🖥 Java

🖥 React

🖥 Microservice architecture with Kafka(-streams)

🖥 Docker-based CI/CD processes

🖥 AWS/kubernetes/terraform

We provide

💪 Assistance in setting up the project/integrating with the team

💪 Guidance while onboarding

💪 Support in any aspect of your activities

💪 Free choice of hardware

💪 Perks like private health insurance and 7card

💪 Regular team events like a week in a mountain hut

💪 Possibility to work remote (we will empower a flexible hybrid mode forever)

💪 Central working place in a big company house with lots of community space such as garden, BBQ area, and much more

💪 anything you are missing – let's talk!

Some final words

You will be joining a dynamic and crossborder project team in Cluj, working closely together with product owners, UX/UI, and a development team of 10 developers.

If you have any further questions feel free to contact us any time!

Looking forward to meeting you for a (virtual) coffee or tea ☕️