Senior Backend Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Marblebound Labs employs 700 people across engineering hubs in Berlin and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Job summary

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. You can work from home anywhere in Germany. We have no office requirement.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

What you need

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Preferred qualifications

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Terraform or Pulumi

Salary range: €111,000-€131,000 a year

Benefits

• Company pension scheme
• Holiday pay
• Meal allowance
• Urban Sports Club membership
• JobRad bike leasing

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Within 30 days.

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