Platform Backend Engineer — Remote-First Scale Optimizations

Timefold; Oost-Vlaanderen; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-time position in a fast-growing,;

Competitive salary package

Flexible work arrangement (remote/hyr-

Job summary

Timefold is seeking a Platform Backend Engineer to build and evolve the Timefold Platform, running Timefold’s optimization tech in production for global customers. You’ll work hands-on with the core product and report to the Team Lead Platform Engineering to grow your skills.

You’ll partner with engineers across the stack, own features end-to-end, and influence architecture to scale while delivering reliable, well-tested code for a world-wide user base.

Qualifications

• Senior or mid-level software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Build the core of the platform by designing and developing services.
• Own features end to end from design to production.
• Shape the architecture to support growth and scale.
• Write clean, well-documented, performant code with reviews.
• Ship with confidence by building unit/integration/performance tests.
• Keep it running with monitoring, alerting and scalability improvements.
• Build interfaces for other builders to ease usage.

Skills

Java

Kubernetes

REST API

JUnit

Cloud platforms

Docker

API design

gRPC

RabbitMQ

MongoDB

OAuth

Timefold/OptaPlanner

Asciidoc/HTML/JS

Remote work

Tools

Quarkus

Job description

Timefold is seeking a Platform Backend Engineer to build and evolve the Timefold Platform, running Timefold’s optimization tech in production for global customers. You’ll work hands-on with the core product and report to the Team Lead Platform Engineering to grow your skills.

You’ll partner with engineers across the stack, own features end-to-end, and influence architecture to scale while delivering reliable, well-tested code for a world-wide user base.