Staff Backend Engineer (f/m/d)

In this role, your primary impact will come from technical leadership and platform evolution, ensuring our long-lived SaaS remains reliable, scalable, and adaptable as the product grows.

• Shape the future of a B2B SaaS platform, balancing long-term vision with incremental improvements
• Lead large-scale refactorings and modernization efforts
• Design and evolve backend architectures across different services, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and operability
• Build and maintain scalable backend services using PHP 8.5 (Symfony 7) and Scala
• Drive architectural decisions around APIs, data models, and service boundaries, making trade-offs explicit and well-documented
• Act as a technical reference for complex debugging and system-level issues
• Mentor and support other engineers through ode reviews, technical discussions, and hands-on collaborationc
• Contribute to evolving our engineering culture through knowledge sharing and technical leadership

You’ll thrive here if:

• You value impact
• You believe great ideas can come from anywhere
• You take ownership and enjoy solving hard problems
• You want to grow with a team that’s ambitious but humble

If you are excited to collaborate with a diverse, international team that values feedback, ownership, and improving customer experience, this is the place you will fit right in.

What We’re Looking For:

• +8 years of professional experience in backend engineering, with experience evolving established systems
• Strong expertise in PHP (preferably using Symfony framework) and solid experience working with complex, long-lived codebases
• Proven ability to lead major refactorings or architectural transitions
• Deep understanding of SQL, data modeling, and performance trade-offs
• Strong debugging and system-level thinking skills
• Hands-on DevOps experience, with a strong sense of ownership for production systems: CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, deployments, and production troubleshooting
• Experience working with distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
• Ability to mentor engineers with different experience levels through clear technical guidance and constructive feedback

Nice to have

• Experience building GenAI systems

What We Offer:

• Remote within Germany, or hybrid work from our dedicated Mindspace office in central Berlin (Hausvogteiplatz, Mitte)
• locations
• Budget to bring remote team members together and work in person
• Work with highly experienced and capable people motivated to build great products
• Earn extra vacation days each year (Start 26 days, Max 34 days)
• FitX gym membership, available at all locations