Senior Backend Engineer – Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Design and create scalable, dependable, and maintainable backend systems.

• Independently identify and assess problems and initiatives, considering their impact, priority, and timing.

• Participate in architectural decisions and design discussions.

• Lead significant cross-cutting initiatives from start to finish alongside engineering stakeholders.

• Develop and sustain internal tools and infrastructure utilizing AWS and Terraform.

• Oversee observability, logging, and operational excellence for high availability.

• Share expertise through code reviews, design reviews, and collaborative coding sessions.

• Contribute to enhancing technical standards.

• Identify possibilities for AI and automation to enhance software development and operations.

• Possible initiatives include horizontal write-scaling for databases, CI/CD modernization, migration from CloudFormation to Terraform, and the extraction/reworking of common services.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in backend development.

• Proven history of taking significant technical projects from ambiguity to successful completion.

• Extensive hands-on experience with infrastructure, reliability, or performance.

• Strong engineering principles that are applicable across different languages and cloud platforms.

• Experience in designing and scaling distributed systems in cloud-native settings.

• AWS experience preferred, or a solid foundation in Azure with a genuine interest in transitioning.

• Familiarity with containerized services and infrastructure-as-code, including Docker and Terraform.

• Exposure to CloudFormation relevant to the current stack.

• Capability to independently write unit and integration tests.

• Ability to discuss a project thoroughly, covering the problem, actions taken, and impact.

• Proficiency in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• 360° feedback reviews.

• Evolving career framework.

• Annual learning budget of €1,000+

• Flexible working arrangements, including options for remote, office, or a hybrid mix.

• 30 days of vacation.

• EGYM Wellpass membership.

• Fully funded Deutschland Ticket for travel throughout Germany.

• Regular team dinners.

• Company meetups and offsite events.

• Autonomy and ownership in your role.

• Recognition for performance and contributions.

• International team comprising colleagues from over 20 nationalities.