Senior Product Engineer (Backend, Java) - Europe

Secfix; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A compliance automation startup in Berlin is seeking a Senior Product Engineer (Backend, Java) to take charge of backend systems. The ideal candidate has 5-8 years of experience in software engineering, strong Java skills, and enjoys working in a fully remote environment. This role offers a competitive salary, equity options, and generous benefits including a personal development budget and health insurance.

Leistungen

Remote work budget

Equity package

26 days holiday + public holidays

Comprehensive health coverage

Annual retreats

Qualifikationen

• 5-8 years of industry experience as a backend or product engineer, building user-facing products.
• Strong object-oriented programming fundamentals in Java.
• Extensive experience with AI-powered engineering tools.

Aufgaben

• You’ll be the go-to person for all things backend in your product area.
• Work closely with the CTO and the Tech Lead to set technical direction.
• Support other team members on your area of expertise, mentor and develop junior engineers.

Kenntnisse

Java

Spring Boot

Relational Database Design

SQL optimization

AI-powered engineering tools

Tools

PostgreSQL

Gitlab CI/CD

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

Senior Product Engineer (Backend, Java) - EMEA at Secfix

Secfix automates security compliance for SMBs in Europe. We help SMBs automate ISO 27001, GDPR, TISAX, and SOC 2 in weeks instead of months. Our platform integrates with a company’s tech stack (like AWS, Azure AD, Jira, etc.), automatically extracts the data needed for compliance, and creates a checklist to become and remain compliant.

We grew fast and are looking for skilled engineers to help us improve and scale our product. Check our culture guide. Secfix is an early-stage fully remote startup on a mission to become the European compliance automation leader.

What you’ll do day to day

• You’ll be the go-to person for all things backend in your product area.
• You’ll work closely with the CTO and the Tech Lead to set technical direction.
• You’ll work closely with our product and design teams and with our customers to identify, plan, design, build and ship features on schedule.
• You’ll deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, debug, support, maintain and evolve features and code under your responsibility.
• You’ll leverage AI-powered engineering tools (Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate development, debugging, and testing.
• You’ll own and maintain product and technical documentation.
• You’ll support other team members on your area of expertise, mentor and develop junior engineers.
• You’ll follow company\'s culture and communication guidelines.
• Live by our values.

What you’ll need

• 5-8 years of industry experience as a backend or product engineer, building user-facing products.
• Strong object oriented programming fundamentals in Java.
• Spring Boot, Hibernate (or equivalent) experience.
• Relational Database Design and SQL optimisation.
• Testing, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Ability to design and build backend systems that can scale both in supported features and concurrent usage.
• Previous experience with Golang and/or Typescript is a bonus.
• Experience with owning features end-to-end, from idea to execution to delivery in production.
• Experience with communicating software design ideas and adapting to feedback before jumping into coding.
• Extensive experience with AI-powered engineering tools (Cursor, Claude), you know their strengths, weaknesses, and how to validate outputs.

Preferred (bonus)

• Experience working at fully remote companies.
• Experience working on early stage startups.
• Built functional AI features (especially if deployed to production) or integrated AI with backend systems.
• 0.5-1 year of software engineering experience in high growth VC-funded startups.

Not every candidate will tick every box. If you are excited about our mission and believe you have what it takes to succeed with us, we want to hear from you!

Our Technology Stack

• Frontend: TypeScript, Angular, Ngrx, Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Java SpringBoot, PostgreSQL, Hibernate, JPA
• Mobile Device Management: Golang
• Infrastructure: AWS with ECS
• Tools: Gitlab CI/CD, Figma, Slack, Notion, Gather.town, ClickUp
• AI tooling: Cursor, Claude Code, GPT

What we offer

• Remote Work: 100% remote work with a virtual office in Gather.
• Competitive Salary: Industry-competitive local salaries. We pay local rates that are at or above the market. We share this philosophy with GitLab.
• Equity: Generous equity package – we’re all owners of Secfix and beneficiaries of our collective success.
• Mentorship: We are backed by top VCs and accelerators and have direct access to world-class mentors.
• Development Budget: €1,000 annual personal development budget.
• Workspace Budget: Remote workspace budget and access to co-working spaces.
• Holidays: 26 days holiday + local public holidays.
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive health coverage.
• Annual Retreat: Annual retreat to build connections and inspire ideas (this year we’re headed to Milan!).
• Company Events: Company-wide events to build relationships and have some fun!
• Tech Equipment: Latest tech equipment (MacBook, monitors, headphones).

Our Interview Process

We aim to invite successful applicants to interview within 1 week and provide feedback after the take home task stage.

Applicants can expect the following:

• Technical Assessment ~ max. 45-75 minutes
• Introductory call with talent team ~ 15-20 minutes
• Technical Interviews ~ 2 hours
• Virtual on-site with the team and co-founders on Gather.town
• Offer stage

After sending us your application, please keep an eye out for an email from Grigory (CTO) or people ops team. We will respond and move as quickly as possible. The order of interviews might deviate depending on availability of the interviewers.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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