Principal Backend Engineer

A bit about us:

Alpen Cloud employs 620 people across engineering hubs in Berlin and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

Position summary:

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. We hire in the US through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith.

Pay and benefits:

Salary: $189,000-$255,000 a year

• Annual learning budget.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• 24 days paid time off.
• Home office setup budget.

Alpen Cloud provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Start dates are flexible, usually within a few weeks of an offer.

Start: Immediately.

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