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Senior Backend Engineer
Location
Europe
Posted
100 days ago
Salary
€100K - €150K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer
Peec AI
• Take ownership of complex backend systems end-to-end - from scoping and architecture to high-quality, reliable delivery • Design and build robust, scalable APIs and distributed systems that power our products and deliver exceptional performance • Collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, and Design teams to translate product ideas into well-architected backend solutions • Push the boundaries of what’s possible with modern backend technologies, driving innovation in both architecture and developer experience • Contribute to evolving our backend architecture, infrastructure, and developer tooling to support rapid iteration at scale • Proactively identify opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, and developer experience - and drive those initiatives through to execution
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced startup or high-growth environments
- Deep expertise in TypeScript and modern backend frameworks, with a proven track record of building and scaling production systems
- Experience designing and implementing APIs (REST, GraphQL, or gRPC) that power user-facing products
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, ideally on GCP (e.g. Cloud Functions, Cloud Tasks, Firestore)
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code
- Strong communication skills and a high sense of ownership - able to operate with autonomy while staying aligned with team goals
- Some markers of excellence, which could also be non-work related, like having a high FIDE rating
Benefits
- Exciting and challenging work with real impact and ownership at one of Europe’s fastest-growing Series A startups
- Aggressive equity compensation package
- Remote working (applicants must be located within ±3 hours of the Berlin (CET) time)
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