Backend Engineer, Content-API – Go/React

AMBOSS

Backend Engineer developing high-performance APIs and data pipelines at AMBOSS. Contributing to critical infrastructure supporting medical professionals globally.

Posted 4/23/2026full-timeBerlin • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoGraphQLPostgresRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and extend APIs that serve structured content to web and mobile clients
Work on data pipelines that process real-time content events into a queryable state
Contribute to internal developer tooling that generates code from schemas
Improve the reliability and performance of a system serving production medical content
Collaborate with your team to design solutions to loosely defined problems

Requirements

What you’ll need

3-5 years of professional backend engineering experience in Go (or Rust)
Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, and working with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
Familiarity with at least one of: GraphQL, event-driven architectures, or stream/batch processing
You write clean, testable code and care about meaningful test coverage
You can take a problem from ambiguity to a working solution with light guidance
Curiosity about how systems work under the hood and a desire to keep improving them
Exposure to code generation, schema-driven development, or AST tooling (nice-to-have)
Experience with observability (tracing, structured logging, metrics) (nice-to-have)
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and containerized deployments (nice-to-have)

Benefits

Comp & perks

30 paid vacation days, AMBOSS holiday, personal purpose day and more
Daily healthy breakfast & lunch by in-house chef in Berlin HQ, AMBOSS daycare, work remotely from other office spaces in Cologne, Sardinia, Cape Town
Urban Sports Club -M plan- , Fitbit Versa 3, Deutschland Ticket…

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoRustAPI designdata modelingPostgreSQLGraphQLevent-driven architecturestream processingbatch processingcode generation

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcuriositycollaborationadaptabilityattention to detail