Platform Engineer

LionHires is a global recruitment partner for Fintech, iGaming, and Product Development.

We connect elite talent with an exclusive network of companies offering global relocation, premium compensation, and genuine career growth.

From Europe to the US and beyond, we help talent go global.

We are looking for a skilled Platform Engineer who will join our team in Belgrade, Serbia.

This is a 100% office-based role.

🎯 Mission:  Help run and improve our Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and related tooling so product teams can develop and deliver code fast, safely, and on their own. 

✅ Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Operations, Infrastructure, Development, Legal, and Security teams.
• Build new and improve existing release processes (Jira, GitLab), integrating business requirements and developer convenience.
• Implement, propagate, and continuously improve release processes across dozens of development teams.
• Be in charge of environment provisioning and consistency from development to production (feature stands, dev, pre-production, production).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure high-quality release delivery.
• Assist teams with branching strategies and DevOps principles, enabling them to deliver quickly and safely.

✅ Our technology stack:

• We are working on in-house platform development with Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Our infrastructure is on bare metal and on AWS (EC2, EKS).
• We use Docker for containerization and Kubernetes and Argo CD for orchestration and roll out our services.
• GitLab, GitLab CI, and Helm templates for continuous integration.

✅ Requirements: 

• Leadership and communication skills, ability to lead changes in a fast-growing environment.
• Experience with Kubernetes, a strong understanding of how it works internally.
• Hands-on experience with Argo ecosystem: Argo CD, Argo Rollouts.
• Understanding of microservice architecture principles.
• Hands-on experience with GitLab CI.
• Knowledge of Quality Control and test automation in Agile-based continuous integration environments.
• Have experience with Python and Shell scripting, ready to use them daily to automate your routine.
• Experience with databases: MySQL.
• Experience with Redis.

✅ Nice to have:

• Practical experience with AWS or GCP, Calico and Istio.
• Experience with NATS and RabbitMQ.
• Experience with Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript.
• Experience with Unleash and its webhooks and integration.

✅ We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to: 

• Modern office in New Belgrade.
• 24 vacation days annually.
• 6 sick days without a medical certificate.
• Premium Health Insurance (coverage up to 5,000 EUR annually).
• Special occasion gifts: birthday, wedding, newborn.
• Learning & Development budget (for conferences, courses and certifications).
• Corporate events: international parties, team buildings, activities.
• Career growth opportunities in a fast-growing company.
• Relocation package for international candidates.
• Sports package (FitPass membership).
• Language classes: Serbian & English (company-covered).

Bold moves start here. Make yours. Apply today!