Senior Backend Engineer
Gorilla - Decisions, based on data
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Germany
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About the role
- Lead architectural decisions across the platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance in high-load, data-heavy environments.
- Drive cross-functional technical initiatives that have a broad impact across the product, working closely with Product Managers, Designers, and fellow Engineers.
- Mentor and support other engineers, fostering technical growth and best practices through design reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Design and build distributed systems that handle complex workflows and large volumes of energy data efficiently and securely.
- Take ownership of critical components, ensuring they evolve with the needs of the business and maintain a high bar for quality and resilience.
- Influence technical direction and culture, helping shape how we build systems and collaborate as a team.
- Contribute to strategic planning, helping define roadmaps and long-term technical vision in partnership with engineering and leadership.
Requirements
- Expertise in Python, with a strong command of modern software design patterns, testing practices, and performance optimization.
- Extensive experience with relational databases and data modeling for high-throughput systems.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems design and the trade-offs involved in consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.
- Proven track record of working on data-intensive and high-load backends, ideally within SaaS environments.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially AWS, and experience with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration.
- Strong architectural intuition and ability to drive clarity in ambiguous, complex technical situations.
- Leadership experience through mentoring, leading initiatives, or shaping engineering practices across teams.
- Experience in defining and improving DevOps pipelines, observability, and platform reliability.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset—able to build alignment across stakeholders.
- Proactive and pragmatic: able to balance technical excellence with delivery impact.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonsoftware design patternstesting practicesperformance optimizationrelational databasesdata modelingdistributed systems designDevOps pipelinesinfrastructure-as-codecontainer orchestration
Soft Skills
mentoringleadershipcollaborationcommunicationproactivepragmatictechnical growthclarity in complex situationsalignment buildinginfluencing technical direction