Staff Backend Engineer (all genders)

As a Staff Backend Engineer you will be a technical leader who operates with a broad scope of backend technologies (servers, serverless, managed services, etc.), across multiple initiatives and projects. You are expected to bring a hands-on attitude, but primarily focus on enabling multiple teams to deliver features effectively and coherently by providing high quality decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: You will design and lead the implementation of complex, multi-team projects. This includes defining the architecture for new services or major changes to existing systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Cross-Team Alignment: You will act as the technical glue between teams, ensuring that different groups are building systems that work well together and align with a unified technical vision.

• Solving Complex Problems: You will be the go-to experts for the hardest technical challenges within your domain. This often involves deep-diving into performance bottlenecks, resolving complex integration issues, or designing fault-tolerant systems.

• Mentorship & Uplift: You will mentor other senior and mid-level engineers, helping them grow. You are expected to elevate the entire organization's technical capabilities by setting high standards for code quality, testing, and design (e.g., leading design reviews, writing technical standards).

• Strategic Planning: You will work with product managers, the Chief Technology Officer and Tech Leads to help define the technical roadmap for a given area, identifying technical debt, and proposing new initiatives to meet future business goals.

Your profile 

• 8+ years of professional experience  and a demonstrated impact and scope in your previous roles (e.g., creating scalable solutions, influencing product direction, etc.).

• Broad technological knowledge.

• Experience in solving "messy" problems (ambiguous and complex challenges, often with no clear owner or solution).

• Excellent analytical and presenting skills.

• Ability to work with product and engineering leadership to identify ambiguous, high-level business problems and translate them into a concrete technical strategy.

• Extensive familiarity with AI coding agents.

• Experience with LLM integrations in a production environment - prompt management, evals, API integrations.

What we offer

• Flexible working hours and remote work are a given to enable you to achieve a good work-life balance.

• You are part of a highly engaged, motivated, and professional Development team.

• Your ideas are heard: We value employees who drive change with creativity. Because only with a diverse team and fresh ideas can we make an impact!

• A comprehensive, structured HR and professional onboarding process with cross- departmental introductions and feedback sessions.

• Take advantage of our complete Lecturio training platform for free for your personal and professional development.

• Free access to coaching sessions and other mental health benefits.

  
  

Our current mix of technologies

• Cloud: AWS leveraging broad range of their services via Terraform provisioning

• Deployment targets: Linux servers, Containers (Docker Compose, ECS), Serverless (Lambda, Step Functions) 

• Programming languages: TypeScript, PHP, Python

• Databases: RDBMS (Mysql Aurora, Supabase), NoSQL (AWS DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Redis), Fulltext (Elasticsearch), VectorDB (Pinecone)

• AI: Agentic Framework (Mastra), LLM Ops (Langfuse)

Location: Remote (Time zones: UTC / UTC +1 / UTC -1 / UTC +2 / UTC -2) 

Employment Type: Full-time

If this sounds interesting to you, please apply directly through our website via the "Apply Now" button: https://jobs-lecturio.kenjo.io/staff-backend-engineer. If you have any questions about the role, please feel free to reach out at jobs@lecturio.de. Please include your resume and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience in your application.

We look forward to your application.