Senior Backend Engineer – Platform

• Design and build scalable, reliable and maintainable backend systems
• Identify and scope problems and initiatives independently, weighing impact, priority and timing
• Contribute to architectural decisions and design discussions
• Drive substantial cross-cutting initiatives end to end with engineering stakeholders
• Build and maintain internal tools and infrastructure using AWS and Terraform
• Own observability, logging and operational excellence for high availability
• Share knowledge through code reviews, design reviews and pairing
• Help raise technical standards
• Identify opportunities for AI and automation to improve software development and operations
• Potential initiatives include database horizontal write-scaling, CI/CD modernisation, CloudFormation-to-Terraform migration, and extracting/reworking common services

• 5+ years of backend development experience
• Track record of owning significant technical work from ambiguity through completion
• Substantial hands-on ownership of infrastructure, reliability or performance
• Strong engineering fundamentals transferable across languages and cloud platforms
• Experience designing and scaling distributed systems in cloud-native environments
• AWS preferred, or strong Azure fundamentals with genuine enthusiasm for switching
• Experience with containerised services and infrastructure-as-code, including Docker and Terraform
• CloudFormation exposure relevant to the current stack
• Ability to write unit and integration tests independently
• Ability to discuss a project in depth, including the problem, actions and impact
• Fluent English

• 360° feedback reviews
• Evolving career framework
• Annual learning budget of €1,000+
• Flexible work from home, the office or a hybrid mix
• 30 days of vacation
• EGYM Wellpass membership
• Fully covered Deutschland Ticket for travel across Germany
• Regular team dinners
• Company meetups and offsite events
• Autonomy and ownership
• Performance and contribution recognition
• International team of colleagues from over 20 nationalities