Backend Engineer I

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Headquartered in Berlin since 2000, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Job summary:

Krüger Data has an opening for a Backend Engineer I. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This role is fully remote within Germany. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

In this role you will:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans

What you need:

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Rate: €55,000 - €76,000 a year

Perks and benefits:

• Company pension scheme
• Holiday pay
• Learning budget
• Flexible working hours
• JobRad bike leasing
• Meal allowance
• Up to 3 days of home office per week

Let us know your current notice period and salary expectations.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Krüger Data.