Backend Software Engineer (m/f/d)

Is software engineering more than a job for you? Are you passionate about backend topics? Do you love problems because you can’t wait to dig in and find a solution? Do you want to build software that benefits and delightsusers in real life? And do you believe in teamwork and collaboration to develop brilliantly simple solutions?

Join us as a Backend Software Engineer and help scale the Yatta Platform—an ecosystem for digital products, focused on B2B and B2B2X. Your deep technical expertise and strong work ethic will be key in designing, maintaining and operating complex backend architecture based on microservices.

Together, our team of researchers, developers, engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs strive to excel through software innovations that work, serve, and inspire people. We will go above and beyond to help build the next techunicorns in Europe—and raise the bar for software from Europe on the international stage.

Help us build brilliantly simple service to monetize and sell digital products.

Design and implement software components, products and services, from analysis and development to deployment and rollout.

Contribute to well-informed decision making to resolve complex problems and deliver sustainable solutions for building, maintaining, and improving systems and software architecture.

Design and develop scalable, maintainable, and efficient backend systems, while ensuring the modularity and reusability of code.

Ensure high code quality through best practices, testing automation and code documentation.

Follow SOLID principles, design patterns, and clean code practices.

Continuously improve quality through relentless root-cause analysis, thorough code reviews,comprehensive documentation, rigorous testing, and strict adherence to engineering standards.

Participate in software design discussions contributing to system-level decisions.

Required qualifications

Basic education and skills

Master‘s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field—Ph.D. welcomed; strong academic background is a plus, but we also value exceptional or unconventional resumes, especially if they enable you to achieve extraordinary results.

Experience working in cross-functional teams – collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and other cross-functional teams to deliver features.

Excellent communication skills across diverse stakeholder groups.

Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

Relevant work experience and track record

5+ years of professional working experience in Java technology with a strong track record delivering high-quality, scalable, and secure systems.

5+ years of relevant work experience in Java-based frameworks such as Hibernate, Sprint Boot

Several years of relevant experience in professional software engineering, preferably across the software lifecycle (i.e., from requirements engineering to software design, architecture, programming and implementation to deployment and operation).

Strong foundation in database modeling and designing relational schemas, with hands-on experience using PostgreSQL in production.

Preferably played a role in high-growth startups that successfully navigated early-stage obstacles and challenges—taking software products from market entry to product-led growth.

A basic understanding of lean management—and human-centric software design.

Core technical capabilities

Skilled at writing high-quality Java code and developing web services, with strong expertise in related technologies such as Spring Boot, Hibernate, and SQL/PostgreSQL.

Solid experience with DevOps technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Github CI and building pipelines is a plus.

Proven ability to design, build, and evolve APIs (REST or GraphQL) with a focus on performance, resilience, and scalability.

Write high-quality, maintainable code, conduct regular code reviews, and foster best practices.

Experience with monitoring, observability, and performance optimization (e.g., Prometheus, and Grafana) is a plus.

Deep, hands-on experience applying domain-driven design (DDD) and event-driven architectures to build and evolve platform ecosystems spanning multiple services.

Personality and way of working

Strong team spirit without hierarchical thinking.

Great conceptual and analytical understanding.

Fast comprehension of technical topics and empathy for human dynamics.

Ability to perform under high pressure; very well organized with a strong sense of ownership—and a pinch of idealism.

Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with good judgment and appreciation for feedback to develop and grow.

An entrepreneurial mind with a hands-on attitude to achieve long-term quality results throughshort-term actions.

Take heart — apply

It’s not just your qualifications that matter, but who you are and what you want to learn and achieve in the future. Come by and get to know us. Drinks are on us! o/

Backend technologies

• Python
• Java
• Kotlin
• C++
• C#
• Swift
• Objective C
• Ionic
• Kotlin

Methods and processes

• Scrum
• Kanban
• V-Modell XT
• Lean

Collaboration tools

• Jira
• Confluence
• Figma
• Git
• Slack
• Jenkins

to build...

Desktop applications

for enterprise applications and consumer software.

Drive > mastery

Of course, we don‘t expect you to have mastered all these technologies and frameworks. All you need is a passion for tech with the right potential and ambition: Seeking deep understanding in software engineering and working on meaningful applications. We will figure out the rest together.