Senior Backend Engineer

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Senior Backend Engineer building scalable Go services for refurbed, a European refurbished-products marketplace. Designing APIs, operating production systems, and delivering marketplace features with cross-functional squads.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain core APIs and backend services
  • Own operations and monitoring of production systems
  • Integrate third-party systems and APIs into the platform
  • Own design and implementation of new features and services
  • Identify best practices and create or suggest engineering standards
  • Document and demonstrate solutions through documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code
  • Mentor junior colleagues and onboard new joiners
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions
  • Offer insights and present achievements and results in relevant meetings
  • Occasionally propagate backend changes to frontend

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of experience designing and building scalable backend services in a modern production environment
  • Strong proficiency in Go
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture
  • Proficiency in SQL and relational database design
  • General frontend knowledge and ability to perform basic tasks in frontend applications
  • Strong ownership, initiative, and ability to quickly learn and navigate complex systems
  • Clear, direct, and respectful communication
  • Excellent English skills
  • Based in a European time zone
  • Curious and eager to experiment with new software development approaches, frameworks, AI tools, or practices
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience is desired
  • Based in Europe (including UK) only
  • Valid right to work

Benefits:

  • Dedicated learning budget for courses, conferences, or other learning opportunities
  • Private sessions with Likeminded experts for personal growth and mental health
  • Internal workshops for skills development and cross-department collaboration
  • Fully remote work setting
  • Possibility to work from the Vienna office
  • Ability to bring dogs to the office
  • Self-organized working schedule
  • Office weeks three times a year with team-building events and on-site workshops