Backend Engineer

Your mission


  • Design and implement state-of-the-art REST APIs while maintaining existing services.
  • Own your code and related dependencies, and maintain CI/CD and cloud infrastructure using the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practice.
  • Write clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code that performs and scales.
  • Advocate for best practices and coding standards.

Your profile

Are you?

  • Inspired: You have a burning desire to do great things and to grow!
  • Thoughtful: You have a healthy sense of self and how your life impacts the world around you.
  • Skillful: You are dedicated to what you do. You love working on the edge of your comfort zone and embracing risk and failure head on.
  • Unpretending: You are a healthy balance of confidence and humility! You understand that the more you know, the more you realize how much you do not know.
  • Ambitious: You have big goals. You also understand that a thousand miles starts with one step. You plan, grow, prove, and achieve!

Do you also have these skills?
  • Strong desire to become a great Backend Engineer
  • Strong desire to communicate with people, understand people, and motivate people based on our Core Values and job requirements!
  • Understand that growth is superbly hard because it requires us to face deficiencies head-on. Growth requires tremendous strength!
  • Talented developer who can help us grow our product line. 
  • 5+ years experience hand-on backend experience (team lead experience is a plus)
  • Solid knowledge of javascript and node.js
  • Knowledge and experience using various AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, ECS, RDS.
  • Knowledge and experience using automated pipelines (Terraform, travis, cloud formation, jenkins.
  • Strong understanding of REST API standards and best practices.
  • Experience with graph databases (Neo4J and ArrangoDB) is a plus.
  • Highly self-motivated and have experience/interest in working in a start-up.
  • Fluent in English.

Why us?

  • Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
  • 27 days of vacation a year to start
  • Relocation assistance available (work permit) 
  • Membership to gyms and sports clubs across Germany (Urban Sports Club)
  • Fresh fruit and treats in the office, a barista coffee bar, and a variety of teas.
  • Competitive Salary 
  • Development opportunities and ongoing training to help you reach your career goals
  • Additional perks include: Free crash course in German & summer & winter parties

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