Lead Backend Engineer (Flow) (m/f/d)

Flip; Stuttgart; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

E-Gym-Wellpass membership

Job bike leasing

Team events and culture days

Job summary

A leading AI employee experience platform is seeking an experienced software engineer to lead a team focused on designing and operating a communication platform. The role includes hands-on engineering, customer collaboration, and technical decision-making. Ideal applicants should have over 5 years of software engineering experience, including working with Go and the JVM stack, and possess excellent communication skills. Flip offers a remote-first work culture and values employee well-being and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with backend systems.
• Comfortable with event-based integrations and backend services.
• Interest in developing your own skills and those of your team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team designing and operating an employee communication platform.
• Hands-on engineering work combined with technical leadership.
• Collaborate with customers to understand their problems.

Skills

Go for backend services

Excellent communication skills

Event-based backend services

Experience with JVM stack

Tools

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

PHP / Symfony

Job description

Empowering every employee.

Our mission is to be the world's most used AI employee experience platform by changing the way frontline employees work.

At Flip, we have a clear goal: to revolutionize the world for frontline workers and give them a voice. Become a Flip Game Changer and work with an unbeatable team to ensure that all employees, no matter where they work, have access to their company's internal information. If you’re ready to make an impact and shape the work lives of millions of people, then you’ve come to the right place!

What you can expect

• Lead a team of engineers designing, developing and operating our employee communication platform (backed by PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ), including specifically our structured, chat-driven workflows.
• At least 70 percent of your time is hands‑on engineering work, the remainder is spent on technical leadership tasks.
• Our Flows subsystem is mostly written in Go with some PHP / Symfony, other parts of the system are built on a JVM‑based (Kotlin, Micronaut) stack.
• We work remote within international (mostly European), cross‑functional agile teams.
• We develop software following modern software engineering practices (API first, code reviews, automated tests, MR environments for exploratory testing before a merge, and some tasteful experimental AI augmentation).
• We deploy (Kubernetes, Helm) and monitor (Grafana, Sentry, Mixpanel) our services within the teams, with the support of a separate team of SREs for on‑call duty.
• Join customer calls together with your product manager to understand their specific problems and empower your team to build solutions that cover a majority of customer contexts.
• Take charge on technical topics that are important to you, driving significant decisions, and seeking alignment across teams within our backend guild.

What you bring to the table

We’re seeking a skilled, experienced engineer ready to step up and own complex challenges.

Must Haves

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, working on backend systems
• You have designed, implemented, deployed and operated event‑based backend services, ideally including data‑heavy integrations with other systems.
• You feel comfortable moving between two major tech stacks:
• You have experience with Go for backend services.
• You have some experience with the JVM stack (preferably Kotlin / Spring).
• Excellent communication skills, that enable you to directly work with customers, partners and other important stakeholders
• Interest in developing your own skills and those of your team

Nice‑to‑haves

• Experience working in SaaS startup environments
• Experience with PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ
• Experience with PHP / Symfony
• Fullstack development experience

What we offer you

• Work mode: We’re remote‑first, giving you flexibility to work from home. At the same time, we deeply value the power of in‑person collaboration. Depending on the role, you’ll join occasional team events, workshops, or meetings in our Berlin or Stuttgart offices – always with plenty of notice. The exact balance will be discussed during your interview.
• Work-Life-Balance: We don’t want you to grow roots to your desk chair. That’s why we cover the costs of your E‑Gym‑Wellpass membership and offer job bike leasing.
• Celebrating success: Expect highly motivated and committed people in a relaxed working atmosphere.
• Be part of something bigger: You actively shape Flip in your role. Along the way, you’re an enabler of the rapid growth process of a young tech company and grow towards your goals, fun is guaranteed.
• Happy to be a Flipster: Stay tuned for regular team events and culture days that bring us together as Flipsters.
• Working abroad: At Flip you can also work abroad in the European Union. Let’s talk about remote work in the interview.

At Flip, everyone is welcome – no matter what gender you identify as or how old you are. Sexual identity, origin, religion, world view and disabilities do not influence your potential job at Flip. The most important thing is that YOU fit in!