21bitcoin

Senior / Staff Software Engineer – Backend

21bitcoin

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Munich • 🇩🇪 Germany

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Salary

💰 €60,000 - €120,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

GoTypeScript

About the role

  • Rebuild the Core: Rewrite and modernize our backend using TypeScript / Go and other cutting-edge technologies, ensuring it’s robust, scalable, and future-proof.
  • Challenge the Status Quo: Identify and replace outdated implementations, tools, and processes with innovative, high-performance solutions that align with the highest professional standards.
  • Own End-to-End Delivery: Take full responsibility for designing, implementing, and deploying backend systems that prioritize quality, maintainability, and scalability.
  • Drive Technical Excellence: Push for clean, modular code, seamless integrations, and optimal architecture, ensuring our backend sets a new benchmark for the team’s velocity and success.
  • Foster a Culture of Innovation: Collaborate with a highly skilled team to solve complex technical challenges, share knowledge, and continuously raise the bar for engineering excellence.

Requirements

  • Bring Expertise: 8+ years of experience in backend development, system architecture, and technical leadership, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable systems.
  • Be a Self-Starter: You take ownership of your work, solve problems independently, and have a "get things done" mentality.
  • Think Strategically: You understand how technical decisions impact the business and balance innovation with practicality.
  • Be Passionate About Excellence: You write maintainable, well-tested, and scalable code, setting the bar high for technical standards.
  • Solve Complex Problems: Your deep system design expertise allows you to architect solutions that are robust, scalable, and future-proof.
  • Collaborate with Peers: While this role isn’t focused on leadership, you’ll work closely with an experienced engineering team to share knowledge, tackle challenges, and set a technical direction that benefits everyone.
  • Must be located within ±2 hours of CET timezone. Being based in or willing to relocate to Munich, Salzburg, or Vienna is a significant advantage (relocation assistance available).
Benefits
  • Impact: Shape the future of Bitcoin financial services by leading critical projects and redefining technical standards.
  • Autonomy: Work in a fast-paced startup environment where you have the freedom to drive impactful solutions.
  • Innovation: Build cutting-edge systems using modern tools, languages, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Growth: Collaborate with a highly skilled team that values mentorship, learning, and pushing boundaries.
  • Competitive compensation: We will offer you a mix of cash and stock options based on your appetite for upside.
  • Remote First, with In-Person Magic: We prioritize remote work for flexibility but cherish the power of face-to-face collaboration. Join us at our vibrant hubs in Munich, Salzburg, and Vienna to experience the best of both worlds! We provide relocation assistance.
  • Flexible working hours: We value focus time. Encouraging everyone to minimize fixed meetings and leverage asynchronous communication.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
TypeScriptGobackend developmentsystem architecturescalable systemsclean codemodular codesystem designhigh-performance solutionstechnical leadership
Soft skills
self-starterproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingpassion for excellencecollaborationownershipinnovationcommunicationknowledge sharingtackling challenges