Overview

We are looking for a skilled Staff Engineer with a product mindset and a strong database background.

Vorkis

Ukraine&Abroad | Full-Time | Remote | up to $7460

 

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer who will help us design and evolve scalable, reliable, and elegant systems — with a strong focus on data, architecture, and long-term engineering excellence.

This role is for someone who doesn’t just write code, but shapes technical direction, elevates engineering standards, and drives impact through systems and data quality.

What you bring

  • 3+ years of experience as a Tech Lead, working with teams of mid-level engineers
  • 5+ years of experience as a Full-stack Engineer at a strong senior level
  • Strong hands-on experience with:
    – JavaScript / TypeScript
    – Node.js / NestJS
    – React.js
    – PostgreSQL
    – Testing frameworks (e.g. Vitest)
  • Strong focus on:
    – beauty and simplicity in code
    – clean, maintainable architecture
    – long-term system scalability

Leadership & mindset

  • Leadership through ownership rather than control
  • Experience conducting 1:1s and mentoring engineers
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Product mindset — understanding the why behind the work
  • Proactive in identifying problems and driving improvements
  • Adaptable and eager to grow with the product and team

Nice to have

  • OpenTelemetry / observability experience
  • ClickHouse or other analytical databases
  • AWS / cloud infrastructure experience
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, HashiCorp stack)

What you’ll do

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable systems with a strong focus on data, performance, and quality
  • Own complex initiatives in: data governance, analytics and internal tooling
  • Improve data pipelines, system observability, and developer experience
  • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to turn data into actionable insights
  • Build and evolve internal platforms and tools used across the company
  • Lead and mentor engineers while shaping technical direction and engineering standards

About Redocly

Redocly specializes in API solutions, focusing on API design, documentation, and governance. They provide tools and services that help organizations create, manage, and optimize their APIs efficiently.

The mission is to accelerate API ubiquity. The primary way we do that is to improve our developer experiences. We’re a team of about 60 people focused on making the best products we can for our customers. We have a strong product-market fit. The products you work on are used by millions of people. We use Shape Up methodology.

Headquarter – Austin, Texas, US. We also have an office in Lviv.

Website: https://redocly.com/

Redocly is trusted by leading tech, fintech, telecom, and enterprise teams to power API documentation and developer portals. Redocly’s clients range from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

*If you’d like, you can try the product and sign up for a trial. However, when registering, please add “RECR” to your first or last name. 

Working with Redocly

  • Tech stack: JS, TS, Node.js, Nest.js, React.js,Vitest, Postgres, AWS, Terraform
  • Team: 5 people (middle-seniors)
  • Team’s location: Ukraine&Europe
  • There are functional, product, and platform teams and each has its own ownership, and line structure, and teams themselves decide when to have weekly meetings.
  • There are cycles of 8 weeks and teams can be mixed.
  • Engineers are involved in all parts every two months to work on different things.

Perks

  • Salary: up to $7460 gross, depending on the level of each candidate
  • Fully remote
  • Cooperation on a B2B basis / Gig-contract
  • Contract with the US-based company (no VAT)
  • After a year of working with the company, you can buy a certain number of company’s shares
  • Around 30 days of vacation (unlimited,  but let’s keep it reasonable 😁)
  • 10 working days of sick leave per year
  • Public holidays according to Ukrainian/Polish law
  • No trackers and screen recorders
  • Working hours – European timezone. Working day – 8 hours. Mostly they start working from 10-11 am
  • Equipment provided – MacBooks (M1 – M4)
  • Regular performance reviews

Why Redocly

  • Redocly helps companies around the world turn APIs into exceptional developer experiences through industry-leading documentation and API platform tools
  • Their products are trusted by thousands of engineering teams globally to design, document, and scale APIs
  • They are strong advocates of developer-first thinking, docs-as-code philosophy, and modern API standards (OpenAPI, CI/CD, Git-based workflows)
  • You’ll work on systems that are central to how APIs are built, governed, and consumed at scale
  • They value high ownership, autonomy, and real impact — every engineer influences product direction and technical decisions

Hiring stages

  1. Prescreening (30-45 min)
  2. HR Call (45-60 min)
  3. Coffee Time with the Engineer (30 min)
  4. Trial Day (paid) – Offer Call

Interested? Let’s connect and discuss the details!

LinkedIn   Email: yuliana.rybka@sunvery.com.ua