Hiring Process

1. CV screen
2. 20-minute phone screen
3. First technical interview (45 min)
4. Second technical interview (60 min)
5. Culture fit (45 min)

We answer every application, and every candidate hears back within 3–5 days of each step. If it's not a hell yes, it's a no, and we'll tell you quickly and kindly.

Requirements

You Should Have

• 5+ years building backend software at a product company: you've designed, built, and owned real production services, not just operated them.
• Strong Java: APIs, async processing, concurrency, performance tuning.
• Solid SQL in a backend context: schema design, query optimization, migrations in production. We run MySQL and ClickHouse.
• Architectural judgment: you understand how API and service design choices shape data flow, query patterns, latency, and failure modes at runtime.
• You run what you build: your services have lived on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS, IAM, networking, RDS, S3) in production, and you're happy owning that layer for the team.
• CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD/Flux, Terraform or Pulumi, plus solid scripting.
• Observability as a habit: metrics, logging, tracing (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), and you actually write tests.
• Agentic engineering: you ship production code with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) in the loop, and you know how to direct them well while keeping the quality bar high.
• Independence: you don't need hand-holding in a distributed, async team across 12+ countries.
• Fluent English.

Good to Have

• Multi-tenant SaaS at scale; high-growth startup experience.
• Python: our data engineering stack runs on it.
• Regulated-environment experience (ISO27001, SOC2).
• Experience building agentic workflows into the product: LLM-powered features, tool-using agents, or AI-driven automation shipped to real users.
• Data quality, data management, data observability, or ML monitoring industry experience.

Benefits

What We Offer

• Compensation €85,000-120,000/year + equity.
• Fully remote (EU-based), with a Belgian office available if you want one.
• All the tokens you need, across all frontier models.
• Real ownership, real impact, no micromanagement.
• A team of senior engineers who ship, across 12+ countries.

Our Values

We value freedom with responsibility, transparency, and a growth mindset. We avoid politics, have no tolerance for dishonesty, and value open and direct communication without judgment. We proactively bring up and address potential issues before they become critical, and we overcommunicate frequently. Working at Soda, you will have full autonomy to make impactful product and roadmap decisions.

❤️ Why you will love to join Soda

• Be part of a transformation: data quality is having its moment, and we're at the front of it.
• Ownership from day one: if you see a bottleneck, you remove it.
• International culture: colleagues in 12+ countries.
• Work on your own terms: fully remote, flexible hours.

😡 What you might not love

• Rapidly changing priorities: our roadmap can pivot quickly. It's a fast-paced environment with a LOT of work to be done.
• Flexibility required: you will have to learn new things all the time.

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