Backend Engineer I

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

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. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia. Our team works from several countries. We hire in Denmark through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings.

Job duties

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

What we're looking for

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

Pluses

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.

Benefits

DKK 50,000 - DKK 61,000 per month

• 24 days paid time off.
• Flexible hours.
• Co-working space stipend.
• Wellness allowance.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Paid sick days.
• Annual learning budget.

Start: Immediately.

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