Job Description
From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About the Role
- Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer for our data pipeline service to build and work on data pipelines that moves data from various sources to data warehouses.
- The work is very diverse – all the way from patching software to building new connectors operating on our global Kubernetes compute cluster.
- You will be responsible for ensuring the technical excellence for your team and owned services, by contributing to the code, reviewing code, contributing to architectural design and mentoring your junior colleagues.
This is a full-time position based out of our Novi Sad office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.
Technologies You’ll Use
Java, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, BuildKite, Github Copilot, Claude Code, Codex.
What You’ll Do
- Work on core features of the product
- Write connectors to integrate with source systems
- Contribute to feature enhancements and bug fixes
- Write well-structured Java code following programming best practices
- Independently design software architectures and subsystems to satisfy project requirements
- Lead technical initiatives across the team and coordinate development efforts among multiple engineers
- Review and approve technical designs and critical code changes
- Improve engineering quality standards through coaching and mentorship
- Drive innovation by evaluating new technologies and engineering approaches, including AI-assisted development workflows
- Use AI-powered development tools such as Github Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex to accelerate development, testing, investigations, and incident resolution
- Participate in team on-call duty
Skills We’re Looking For
- Strong coding, technical, and problem-solving skills with 6+ years of professional experience writing Java-based applications in production environments
- Experience designing and operating reliable distributed systems, with an emphasis on high-volume data management platforms operating under strict SLAs
- Expertise working with cloud platforms, cloud-based APIs, and databases
- Proven ability to design and own team-level subsystems and drive architectural initiatives
- Experience leading complex technical projects across multiple engineers
- Strong code review, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Github Copilot and coding agents like Claude Code or Codex in software development workflows
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Ability to mentor engineers and improve code quality standards across the team
Bonus Skills
- Experience building large-scale data pipeline or ETL systems
- Experience working with Kubernetes-based distributed infrastructure
- Experience improving developer productivity through AI-assisted development practices
- Familiarity with conversational AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, or similar tools for engineering documentation, investigation, and design workflows
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Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance *
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants*
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
* May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
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