Backend Engineer, Golang
Equativ (formerly Smart)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berlin • Germany
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About the role
- You will join Equativ’s core engineering team in Berlin, where we design, build, and operate massively scalable real-time advertising systems.
- This is a pure backend engineering role with a strong focus on Golang.
- Your work will directly impact production systems that serve millions of viewers and requests per second on regular TV streaming and during high-profile live events, including the Soccer World Cup on Magenta TV.
- Software development is the central focus of this role.
- You will design and implement high-performance Golang services that operate under strict latency and throughput requirements.
- You will work on both functional product features and non-functional aspects such as performance optimization, scalability, and system stability.
- You will regularly analyze production behavior, improve algorithms based on real traffic patterns, and apply best-of-breed technologies where they make sense.
- You are expected to communicate clearly and proactively, participate in architectural discussions, contribute thoughtfully to code and merge reviews, and maintain high standards for clean, maintainable code.
Requirements
- You have at least two years of professional experience building backend systems in Golang
- You are comfortable working with key-value stores such as Aerospike or Redis and have experience using Kafka or similar data streaming platforms
- You understand the fundamentals of distributed systems and performance-critical backend architectures, and experience with high-throughput or real-time systems is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with video streaming technologies is welcome but not required
- You have operational experience with modern infrastructure and deployment tooling, including Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Helm
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with the option to work remotely up to 50 percent of the time
- Urban Sports Club membership
- Fully paid Deutschlandticket for public transportation, and access to a modern office in the heart of Berlin
- The team regularly organizes social events and hackathons, and we have a budget for conferences, courses, and professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Golangbackend systemsperformance optimizationscalabilitysystem stabilitydistributed systemshigh-throughput systemsreal-time systemsalgorithmsvideo streaming technologies
Soft Skills
communicationproactive participationarchitectural discussionscode reviewsmerge reviewsclean code standards