Staff Engineer - Backend

As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our products and driving the development of scalable and robust backend/data systems. The ideal candidate will have 2+ years in technical leadership, solid understanding of system architecture, be an expert in backend design, and solid hands-on experience in data engineering and DevOps.

The building blocks of our team/company backend stack are: Kotlin, Go, Python, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, and Dagster. If you do not know/do not have experience with some of these – we would still love to receive your application.

Our environment

• Working with skilled and similar-minded professionals in a team that values diversity and inclusivity.
• We aim to create a flexible and agile work environment that promotes the well-being and work-life balance of our employees.
• We believe that team events during working hours play a vital role in building an exceptionally effective team, and we encourage them.
• We are enthusiastic about technology and committed to using it to improve the world.
• We follow the „You build it, you run it“ approach and take pride in it.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop technical strategy in collaboration with a Product, Engineering and Design Lead.
• Communicate your decisions to various stakeholders and advocate for solutions, when needed.
• Guide architectural discussions and contribute to the overall technical strategy of the team.
• Lead by example: Take ownership of the topics you care about, ranging from the features you produce over the quality of our work to the environment we work in.
• Responsible for improving and developing our RESTful web services and Data Platform.
• Give and receive valuable feedback in our code review process and continuously learn and share knowledge with your peers.
• Being open to feedback and taking ownership of your work is essential.
• You work iteratively, frequently pushing code, maintaining an efficient CI/CD pipeline, and automating where possible.

What you need to be successful

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Passion about the things you build and want to make a difference.
• You strive for knowledge-sharing and moving your team forward.
• Experience in Kotlin/Java and Python.
• Ideally, you have worked with MongoDB, Terraform, Docker before and have an understanding of Data Orchestration, REST and Microservices..
• Preferably, you have worked in an agile environment before.
• You value quality as well as clean code and learning new things.
• Good English communication skills
• Understanding and appreciative of diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.

What you’ll get

• Competitive Compensation – we offer attractive salary packages including an Employee Stock Option Plan.
• Flexibility – we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560.
• Growth Budget – all employees get a yearly budget for external training of €1000, and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year).
• Wellbeing – in addition to our yearly vacation of 30 days, we’re running a 4-day-work week every year in August with full payment.
• Support – we’re offering a company pension scheme.
• Sports & Health – join our sport courses in the offices or lease a bike with Staffbase. The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks.
• Team Building – Regular team and office events including the yearly Staffbase Camp.
• Volunteers Day – you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project. We will donate a small amount for that project in addition.
• Employee Referral Program – one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid.

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