Backend Engineer

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.

The position

We are adding a Backend Engineer to our Data Platform team. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Germany. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Day to day

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources

Qualifications

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Benefits

• Company pension scheme
• Holiday pay
• Flexible working hours
• Childcare allowance
• JobRad bike leasing
• Meal allowance
• Urban Sports Club membership

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Within 30 days.

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