Senior Backend Engineer (with Production Mindset)

hellomateo; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A dynamic tech company in Berlin is seeking a backend engineer who will design and maintain scalable services and ensure production readiness. The ideal candidate has strong SQL skills, experience with observability tools, and a pragmatic mindset. This role emphasizes collaboration, simplicity, and improvement in workflows, offering a full-time position with various team benefits.

Leistungen

Deutschland Ticket or Wellhub membership

Weekly team breakfast

Bi-weekly team lunch

Free dinner after hours

Monthly team events

Qualifikationen

• Solid experience building and maintaining production backends.
• Experience with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and data modeling.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services.
• Take ownership of production readiness.
• Collaborate on internal tooling and improve dev workflows.

Kenntnisse

SQL/PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Lean Manufacturing

Jobbeschreibung

We’re looking for a backend engineer who thinks beyond code – someone who not only builds APIs and services but also cares deeply about how they run in production, how they scale, and how easy they are to operate and observe.

What you’ll do:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services (TypeScript, SQL/PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Write clean, maintainable code and thoughtful interfaces
• Take ownership of production readiness (observability, alerting, performance)
• Collaborate on internal tooling and improve dev workflows (e.g., monorepo CI/CD)
• Help evaluate and integrate pragmatic tools from monitoring to AI‑based dev tools
• Investigate issues across the stack (infra, DB, API) and propose improvements
• Collaborate closely with product and other engineers in a fast‑moving environment

Requirements

• Solid experience building and maintaining production backends
• You’ve been on‑call before or felt the pain of systems that don’t scale well
• Strong SQL/PostgreSQL skills and understanding of data modeling
• Hands‑on experience with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, or similar)
• Pragmatic mindset: you know when to build, when to buy, and when to simplify
• Bonus: experience with Supabase, Fargate, or serverless architectures

Why this role might be interesting:

• You want to build things end‑to‑end: from database schema to production dashboard
• You like simplicity and want to avoid overengineering
• You enjoy improving not just the product but the way the product is built
• You want to work in a team that values high trust, low ego, and direct communication

Other benefits

• Deutschland Ticket or Wellhub membership
• JobHandy‑Partner
• Weekly team breakfast
• Bi‑weekly team lunch
• Juicer
• Free dinner after hours
• Beerstash
• Monthly team events
• Ping Pong & Darts

Hiring Process

• 15‑minute screening call – phone or video
• 15‑minute CTO call – video
• 120‑minute take‑home assignment
• 45‑minute system design in the office
• 30‑minute founder reference call – video or in the office

Key Skills

• Lean Manufacturing
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Electrical Engineering
• Debugging
• Elasticsearch
• Conflict Management
• SAP Manufacturing
• Process Engineering
• As9100
• Manufacturing

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

We’re looking forward to your application!