Senior Backend Engineer

Headquartered in Munich since 2004, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 2004, we now have 340 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Our headquarters is in Munich, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in the US, with a local contract and salary paid in USD. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In this role you will:

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

Bonus points:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.

Benefits:

Starting pay: $164,000 - $205,000 annually, depending on experience and certifications.

• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Paid parental leave.
• Annual learning budget.
• Annual team retreat.
• Flexible hours.
• Wellness allowance.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.

Saddleworth Labs provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Immediately.

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