Backend Developer – Cloud (AWS) & DevOps (TypeScript) - Germanspeaking

ocumeda; München; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Well-being & mental health benefits

Dynamic international team

Job summary

A teleophthalmology platform in Munich is seeking an experienced Backend Developer (m/f/d) to enhance their cloud operations. You'll own the AWS platform, work closely with developers, and ensure high availability of services. The ideal candidate has strong AWS and TypeScript experience, along with a focus on security and scalability. Join a dynamic team committed to preventing avoidable blindness.

Qualifications

• Strong backend development experience.
• Practical experience with AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Focus on security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Experience in a startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the AWS cloud platform and shape it for security and scalability.
• Maintain TypeScript CDK Infrastructure-as-Code for provisioning.
• Design and maintain monitoring and alerting processes.
• Monitor platform performance and implement improvements.
• Make infrastructure decisions with a focus on security.

Skills

TypeScript backend development

AWS

Infrastructure-as-Code (TypeScript CDK)

Monitoring and alerting

CI/CD pipelines

Security

Scalability

Cost efficiency

Fluent German

Fluent English

Job description

Overview

As a Backend Developer (m/f/d) with a passion for cloud operations, you help ensure our developers can build efficiently on a reliable, secure, and high-performing platform. You bring strong backend development experience and take ownership of the cloud-side operations that keep our services running smoothly.

Responsibilities

• You own our AWS cloud platform and work hand in hand with developers and product to shape it into a secure, scalable, and cost-efficient foundation for Ocumeda’s growth
• You keep our TypeScript CDK Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) up to date to automate provisioning and deployments, ensuring reproducibility and speed
• You design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes and tests that guarantee high availability and reliability of our services
• You monitor platform performance, availability, and costs, making data-driven improvements for stability and efficiency
• You combine technical security ownership (IAM, networking, data protection) with strategic responsibility for making infrastructure decisions

Your profile / Qualifications

• … you are an experienced TypeScript backend developer who enjoys working close to cloud systems and DevOps topics.
• … you have practical experience with AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code (ideally with TypeScript CDK).
• … you’ve worked with monitoring, alerting, and CI/CD pipelines, and understand how they support reliable software delivery.
• … you care about security, scalability, and cost efficiency, but stay focused on improving developer workflows.
• … you enjoy taking ownership in a startup environment and building sustainable systems that scale with the company’s growth.
• ...you speak fluently German (C1) and English (C1)

Why us?

• We are the leading teleophthalmology platform in Central Europe with strong growth ambitions, transforming the way people access eye care
• Our innovative B2B2C business model partners with opticians who offer our services to their customers. We are already present at over 700 optician locations and have screened more than 260,000 people
• A dynamic, highly motivated, and entrepreneurial team—bringing together experts from optometry, ophthalmology, software & AI development, and strategy consulting—who enjoy both their work and workplace culture
• A lot of fun with a passionate international team that values both effective collaboration and celebrating success together
• Flexible working hours from Monday to Friday, with the option to work remotely.
• Well-being & mental health: We subsidize your Wellpass membership with the maximum contribution

About Ocumeda

• Ocumeda is a teleophthalmology scale-up that offers accessible eye check-ups in collaboration with opticians.
• We help prevent vision loss and blindness through simple and fast eye examinations. With our highly standardized teleophthalmological evaluations, we ensure the highest level of medical quality—independent of location.
• We are especially proud of our team. Interdisciplinary and committed to the highest medical standards, we work together toward our vision: preventing avoidable blindness.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries

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