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Senior Backend Engineer

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In-Office
Berlin
Senior level
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Berlin
Senior level
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build scalable APIs, manage complex systems, and drive innovation in backend architecture while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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What you’ll do
  • Take ownership of complex backend systems end-to-end - from scoping and architecture to high-quality, reliable delivery

  • Design and build robust, scalable APIs and distributed systems that power our products and deliver exceptional performance

  • Collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, and Design teams to translate product ideas into well-architected backend solutions

  • Push the boundaries of what’s possible with modern backend technologies, driving innovation in both architecture and developer experience

  • Contribute to evolving our backend architecture, infrastructure, and developer tooling to support rapid iteration at scale

  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, and developer experience - and drive those initiatives through to execution

What we’re looking for
  • 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced startup or high-growth environments

  • Deep expertise in TypeScript and modern backend frameworks, with a proven track record of building and scaling production systems

  • Experience designing and implementing APIs (REST, GraphQL, or gRPC) that power user-facing products

  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, ideally on GCP (e.g. Cloud Functions, Cloud Tasks, Firestore)

  • Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code

  • Strong communication skills and a high sense of ownership - able to operate with autonomy while staying aligned with team goals

  • Some markers of excellence, which could also be non-work related, like having a high FIDE rating

  • Most importantly: we care deeply about working with genuinely kind, collaborative, and hard-working people who make the team better through empathy and openness

Tech Stack
  • Languages: TypeScript

  • Backend: GCP, Cloud Functions, Cloud Tasks, RabbitMC, Firestore, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch

  • AI Models: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Llama, etc.

Bonus Points
  • You’ve personally built and scaled a system (e.g. side project, startup, open-source) that handled significant traffic or complexity, and learned real lessons from it

  • Background working on AI products or data-heavy applications

  • Academic background in Computer Science or a related technical field

  • Experience in starting a company or working at a top-tier high-growth startup

What we offer
  • Exciting and challenging work with real impact and ownership at one of Europe’s fastest-growing Series A startups

  • Regular team events and off-sites

  • Aggressive equity compensation package

  • Paid Uber Eats & Uber home when working late

  • The most beautiful office space and work environment in Berlin

  • Hybrid (minimum three days in the office) or remote working options

Top Skills

Cloud Functions
Cloud Tasks
Elasticsearch
Firestore
GCP
Postgres
RabbitMQ
Typescript

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