Senior Backend Engineer
Stena Center for Financial Technology
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berlin • Germany
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About the role
- Build and operate backend services in Python on AWS - Lambda functions, DynamoDB, Aurora, and event-driven pipelines that handle real production traffic.
- Tackle hard backend problems - latency, reliability, and scale are everyday concerns.
- Own your systems end-to-end: from architecture and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
- Make key architectural decisions - you'll have real authority over how things are built, not just what gets built.
- Raise the bar for the team through code reviews, mentoring, and improving our development tooling and processes.
- Work directly with Product and Design to shape what we build next.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of leading complex projects in a senior capacity (2+ years).
- Deep expertise in Python and building backend systems on cloud platforms (we use AWS).
- Strong system design skills - you're comfortable making architectural trade-offs and defending them.
- Depth in at least one of these areas: data pipelines and storage, event-driven architectures, caching and performance, or serverless systems. You don't need all of them.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders on a shared vision.
- The ability to work in a hybrid model from our Berlin HQ, the London office, or the Iasi hub. Please note that relocation assistance is not provided for this role.
Benefits
- Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow.
- Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members.
- Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth.
- Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package.
- Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes.
- Receive a new Apple MacBook Pro, as well as meaningful home office set-up.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonbackend systemsAWSLambdaDynamoDBAuroraevent-driven architecturesdata pipelinescachingperformance
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringcode reviewssystem designarchitectural trade-offsleadershipproblem-solvingstakeholder alignmentdevelopment processes