Backend Engineer I

Who we are:

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about. We started in 2017 and have grown to about 31 people. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

About the role:

Looking for a Backend Engineer I who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote, open to candidates across Germany. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

What you'll do:

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.

Requirements:

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.

What you get:

Compensation: €62,000 to €73,000 annually

• Holiday pay.
• Christmas bonus.
• Learning budget.

Start: Immediately.

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