Backend Software Engineer

Backend Software Engineer (Go / AWS) – Circular Economy (EU-Remote / Milan)

We are working for a client that is building an AI‑powered, product‑centric platform turning pre‑owned goods into currency and connecting retailers, consumers, and professional buyers across Europe. You’ll help design and ship event‑driven backend services that make re‑commerce instant, trustworthy, and scalable.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and operate event‑driven backend services and APIs.
• Translate business needs into simple, reliable product features.
• Lead decisions on architecture, observability, testing, and scalability.
• Collaborate with Product & Design to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Improve developer experience (CI/CD, IaC, tooling) to ship faster.

Tech stack

• Architecture: Event‑driven (AWS EventBridge), serverless.
• Backend: AWS Lambda (Go).
• IaC: AWS CDK.
• Frontend: TypeScript, React.
• Practices: Automated testing, trunk‑based development, metrics / tracing.

What you’ll bring

• 3–7+ years building production backends (Go a plus; any typed language welcome).
• Experience in small/early teams owning features end‑to‑end.
• Comfort with Docker, cloud primitives, and production deployments.
• Product mindset: measure impact, simplify, and ship.
• Bonus: SaaS / fintech / AI tooling / dev‑platforms; serverless at scale.

How they work

High autonomy and ownership; fast feedback loops; experiments.

Offer

Competitive basic salary (from €45,000 to €70,000) + meaningful equity. Hybrid Milan.

Eligibility

• BSc / MSc in CS (or equivalent experience).
• Non CS backgrounds welcome with a strong track record of building and shipping.