Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d)

Your mission

• You contribute to the design and further development of our platform's backend architecture, with a focus on performance, scalability, security, and long-term maintainability, as we continue to scale and refine the system.
• Collaborate closely with product and business teams to turn complex requirements into robust, production-ready backend solutions.
• You are thrilled to take ownership of solving challenging technical problems with high-quality, pragmatic code, collaborating closely with the team to deliver impactful solutions—while maintaining a strong focus on individual contributions.
• Drive the continuous improvement of our engineering practices, architecture, tooling, and infrastructure.
• Contribute to innovation by exploring new technologies, initiating product ideas, and building integrations with strategic external partners.

Your profile

• You hold a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field – ideally with a Master's degree.
• You bring at least 7+ years of relevant experience in backend development, ideally across multiple roles in startups, scale-ups or big tech environments.
• You enjoy working end-to-end: from shaping ideas and architecture to implementing production-ready solutions – writing clean, modular, and well-tested code.
• You have deep expertise in Python and experience with scalable microservice architectures and modern development/deployment tools.
• You put AI agents and tools to work on the tasks they're built for, and focus on the work only humans can do.
• You are fluent in German and English.
• You are willing to work from our Munich office at least two times per week.

Why us?

• Take the opportunity to help shape a growing start-up from the ground up and have a measurable impact on the early development of our product.
• Build up a solution disrupting the whole market of processing supply chain documents in conservative industries such as construction.
• Work with a team experienced both in product development and our target industries.
• Perks such as e.g. construction site visits and included gym membership.
• Get all the additional benefits of a start-up (flat hierarchies, flexible working hours, responsibility, work hybrid-style, cool team events. etc.).

About Us

VESTIGAS is a fast-growing startup offering a supply chain operating system for the construction industry. Our solution is the digital, independent and legally secure platform for orders, delivery notes, and invoices. This will allow us to save >10bn € of costs and several million tons of CO2 in Germany alone. VESTIGAS has already partnered with 14 of the top 20 construction companies and 17 of the top 20 suppliers in the German construction industry. We have quadrupled our team in the last two years and are looking forward to pushing the construction industry to new heights!

We are an passionate team of 55 with a can-do attitude and strong action bias, working out our beautiful office at Goetheplatz in central Munich. We love working on solutions that are not just incremental improvements, but real leaps within an industry and value great team spirit, going the extra mile for our customers as well as open and transparent communication.