Your Objectives & Role:

• Drive the Backend Vision: Define and evolve the architecture of our backend systems, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and aligned with long-term product strategy.
• Align Engineering with Strategy: Act as a technical counterpart to product and business stakeholders, translating company objectives into backend initiatives with measurable impact.
• Drive End-to-End Ownership: Take accountability for backend projects from concept to delivery and beyond, setting the standard for reliability and quality across the lifecycle.
• Champion Engineering Excellence: Set the bar for clean, performant, and maintainable code; foster a culture of high standards and technical curiosity.
• Lead & Develop Engineers: Guide backend engineers through mentorship, coaching, and clear technical direction to grow the team’s capabilities and autonomy.
• Architect for Scale & Resilience: Make critical decisions on system design and performance to support a growing platform with increasing complexity and scale.
• Elevate Operational Maturity: Lead improvements to monitoring, observability, and developer workflows, ensuring backend systems are resilient and teams can ship confidently.
• Embed Security by Design: Take responsibility for backend security posture, ensuring systems meet best practices and compliance from the ground up.
• Be a Force for Innovation: Stay ahead of backend trends and emerging technologies; drive continuous improvement in how we build, scale, and operate our systems.

Your Expertise, Skills & Mindset:

• Real Seniority: Not defined by years of experience but by a drive for continuous improvement, direct business impact, and ownership.
• Backend Development: Strong proficiency in Python, C++, Node.js, and backend frameworks such as NestJS, Flask, Fastify, or FastAPI.
• Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS services like RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, EC2, and SQS.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform or similar tools for infrastructure automation.
• High-Throughput Systems: Strong experience in real production projects handling large-scale data flows.
• Monitoring & Observability: Proficiency in tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Security & Networking: Solid understanding of networking principles, security best practices, and cloud security.
• Agile & Fast-Paced Environments: Experience in agile teams, working in dynamic, fast-growing tech environments.
• Excellent Communication: Strong English communication skills (C1+), with the ability to collaborate across teams. German proficiency is not required.

Technologies We Work With:

• Event-driven backend development in Python and NestJS, following a microservice architecture
• Frontend monorepo with Turbo, pnpm, changesets, and storybook, primarily using Vue.js
• Adoption of TypeScript, NestJS, BullMQ, and Prisma for backends in an opinionated monorepo approach
• Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, S3
• Container orchestration with Kubernetes and CI/CD using GitLab
• Infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform
• Leveraging the serverless framework on AWS Lambda for high-throughput endpoints.