Rennsport.gg

Senior Backend Engineer

Rennsport.gg

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Germany

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKotlinPostgresRust

About the role

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs
  • Own and improve backend architecture within the team
  • Ensure high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability
  • Design systems with reliability, scalability, security, and observability in mind
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, SRE, data, and game teams
  • Contribute to technical planning and backend roadmap discussions
  • Identify and address performance bottlenecks, system risks, and technical debt
  • Participate in incident response and continuously improve system reliability
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Senior Backend Engineer in a production environment
  • Strong experience building backend systems in Go (or another modern backend language such as Java, Kotlin, C#, or Rust)
  • Strong experience working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
  • Strong understanding of system reliability, performance optimization, and debugging
  • Experience designing and operating distributed or microservice-based systems
  • Experience designing and consuming RESTful or RPC-based APIs
  • Experience running services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams
  • Experience with collaborative Git-based workflows
  • Clear and thoughtful communication skills in English (written and spoken).
Benefits
  • 30 days of paid vacation per year
  • Remote-first, flexible work environment (must be located in Sweden or Germany)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
backend servicesAPIsGoJavaKotlinC#RustPostgreSQLdistributed systemsmicroservices
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationcommunicationtechnical planningproblem-solvingcode qualitytestingmaintainabilityreliabilityperformance optimization