Software Engineer – Backend

Shiftmove

Backend-focused Software Engineer joining the engineering team behind Avrios, a B2B mobility product. Designing scalable features for vehicle fleet management across Europe.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeBerlin • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudJava

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

End-to-End Feature Ownership: Design, build, test, and ship production-grade features across backend (and supporting frontend), owning the full lifecycle from idea to release, including initiatives such as LLM-based document processing and OEM cloud integrations.
Problem-Driven Development: Understand customer and business problems deeply and translate them into effective, scalable technical solutions.
Product Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to shape features, challenge assumptions, and improve outcomes for users.
Engineering Decision-Making: Propose solutions, evaluate trade-offs, and contribute to technical decisions through structured discussions.
Reliable Delivery & System Improvement: Deliver features in a high-frequency release environment while continuously improving system stability and reducing technical debt.
Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to team learning by sharing knowledge and improving engineering practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Engineering Foundation: Strong CS fundamentals with experience building production systems in Java
Problem Solving & Trade-offs: Think in first principles and balance speed, scalability, and complexity effectively
Ownership & Execution: Drive work independently from idea to production and deliver in fast-paced environments
Product Awareness: Understand user needs and business impact behind features
Learning Agility: Learn quickly, ask questions, and adapt to complex systems
Pragmatic Mindset: Make sensible decisions, prioritise effectively, and focus on delivering value over perfection
Collaborative mindset: While this is a backend-focused role, we value engineers who are happy to collaborate across the stack and support frontend topics when needed.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Vacation: 30 days
Workation: Up to 12 weeks per year working remotely from anywhere in the world
Dog-friendly office: Because furry coworkers make everything better! 🐶
Development: €2,000 annual budget for personal and professional development
Main benefits: Urban Sports Club membership, Hrmony subscription, JobRad, or a subsidy for a BVG ticket
Wellbeing: 1 Mental Health Day + Access to nilo.health
For foodies: Free lunch once per week, biweekly company breakfast, and 24/7 available drinks & snacks 🍕

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaLLM-based document processingOEM cloud integrationsproduction systemsscalable technical solutionssystem stabilitytechnical debtengineering practices

Soft Skills

problem solvingownershipexecutionlearning agilitypragmatic mindsetcollaborative mindset