Senior Backend Engineer

WHO WE ARE:

Small accounting firms in Southwest Finland use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

THE ROLE:

Cobbledesk is hiring for the Senior Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. You can work from home anywhere in Finland. We have no office requirement. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON:

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ

WHAT YOU BRING:

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

PREFERRED:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith

WHAT WE OFFER:

Salary range: €7,000 - €8,300/month

• Training budget
• Flexible working hours
• Occupational pension
• Five weeks of annual leave
• Lunch benefit
• Wellness allowance

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Immediately.

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