Senior Backend Engineer – AI-Powered SaaS (Remote EU)

Jobgether; Lavamünd; Remote; EUR 127,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first working

EU remote options

Team events in Europe

E-Gym-Wellpass

Job bike leasing

Culture days

Professional growth support

Inclusive workplace

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a (Senior) Product Engineer (Backend) to own backend services for AI-powered SaaS products. You will design, implement, and maintain scalable APIs using Kotlin or Java, collaborating with product managers, designers, and engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and AI.

You will measure impact, prototype ideas, adopt AI coding assistants, and contribute to product architecture and instrumentation.

Qualifications

• Proficient backend engineer with Kotlin/Java and web frameworks.
• Saas product development experience in Agile or cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to contribute beyond backend when needed.
• Familiarity with AI-powered coding assistants or willingness to adopt them.
• Product-minded with ability to translate user problems into solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services for SaaS products.
• Build APIs, data models, and integrations using Kotlin or Java.
• Own features from discovery to rollout and impact measurement.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers across domains.
• Contribute to cross-stack tasks to deliver complete product experiences.
• Use AI coding assistants and modern tools to explore codebases and accelerate work.
• Focus on user outcomes and validate ideas via experiments and instrumentation.
• Contribute to technical decisions and scalable product architecture.
• Participate in an evolving engineering culture with end-to-end ownership.

Skills

Product-minded

Ownership

Strong curiosity

Collaboration

Communication skills

Engineering judgment

Agile experience

Tools

Kotlin

Java

Micronaut

Spring

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Helm

RabbitMQ

Apache Kafka

Grafana

Mixpanel

Cursor

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a (Senior) Product Engineer (Backend) to own backend services for AI-powered SaaS products. You will design, implement, and maintain scalable APIs using Kotlin or Java, collaborating with product managers, designers, and engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and AI.

You will measure impact, prototype ideas, adopt AI coding assistants, and contribute to product architecture and instrumentation.