Software Engineer - Developer Tools

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

Role overview:

We need another Software Engineer - Developer Tools who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. The team is spread across multiple countries. We hire in India 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. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

What you'll be doing:

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners

Minimum qualifications:

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests

Preferred qualifications:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Compensation: ₹21,00,000 - ₹25,00,000 pa

What you get:

• Public holidays observed per your country
• Annual team retreat
• Paid sick days
• Monthly internet allowance
• Annual salary review
• Home office setup budget
• Co-working space stipend

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Immediately.

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