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Senior Software Engineer | Kimchi (API Platform Team)

Bulgaria; Croatia; Estonia; Greece; Hungary; Latvia; Lithuania; Poland; Romania; Slovakia; Slovenia; Ukraine

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Why Kimchi?

Kimchi is the AI platform inside CAST AI. We started by helping companies run LLMs on their own Kubernetes clusters and now we’re providing a managed variant of those same capabilities.

Our Infrastructure Today

Multi-model inference (MiniMax, Kimi, GLM-5, Nemotron, DeepSeek) with intelligent routing, an OpenAI-compatible API, and deployment ranging from our GPUs to your own VPC. The inference layer is the foundation and the API is what sits in front of it as the primary channel for broadly and reliably distributing our AI services and powers our own Kimchi harness.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on different key features of our product. All of these are high-agency roles across multiple parts of the tech stack that minimize process friction that would otherwise prevent you from shipping.

Develop with observability in mind, identify bottlenecks and optimize for performance. When p99 latency climbs, you find the cause through query profiles and flame graphs instead of raising the alert threshold.
Design the datastores and distributed systems behind the inference API, and keep them reliable as usage scales from a solo developer to a large enterprise.
Build the billing, usage metering, and role-based controls that let users monitor and govern their own consumption. Catch correctness problems where a wrong number costs you trust.

Requirements

Production experience with Go or Typescript is strongly preferred; candidates without either should demonstrate strong systems programming skills in a comparable language.
Strong debugging, optimization, and performance-tuning skills – including query profiling, index design, and database performance tuning beyond ORM usage.
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes is a strong plus.
Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), CI/CD and DevOps practices experience.
Startup mindset: adaptable, proactive, and comfortable with ambiguity.
Strong English skills, both verbal and written.
You’ve personally driven a complex project end-to-end.

We Offer

Competitive salary (€6,500 – €9,000 gross, depending on the level of experience).
Enjoy a flexible, remote-first global environment.
Collaborate with a global team of cloud experts and innovators, passionate about pushing the boundaries of Kubernetes technology.
Equity options.
Get quick feedback with a fast-paced workflow. Most feature projects are completed in 1 to 4 weeks.
Spend 10% of your work time on personal projects or self-improvement.
Learning budget for professional and personal development – including access to international conferences and courses that elevate your skills.
Annual hackathon to spark new ideas and strengthen team bonds.
Team-building budget and company events to connect with your colleagues.
Equipment budget to ensure you have everything you need.
Extra days off to help maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Hiring Process

Screening call with Recruiter
Hiring Manager interview
Technical interview (system design)
Live coding
Culture Check interview with an executive

As part of our standard hiring process, we would like to inform you that a background check may be conducted at the final stage of recruitment through our third-party provider, Checkr.

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