Jobs in Germany
SCHWAPe transforms hidden innovation potential into scalable tech ventures. As a venture builder, we partner with medium-sized companies to build the next tech leaders. Join our fast-moving, thoughtful, and strategically scaling team as a Backend / Platform Engineer (m/f/d) in Potsdam.
Tasks
- Automate testing, builds, and deployments via GitHub Actions or similar
- Improve Docker Compose setups and evaluate ECS/Fargate/Kubernetes
- Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry)
- Optimize Gunicorn, Celery workers, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Implement rate limiting, API security, secret and access management
Requirements
- Strong understanding of OOP, RESTful APIs, SOLID principles
- Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Production-level Docker & Compose expertise
- Familiarity with Flask APIs, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL
- Performance optimization for Flask (Gunicorn, async, Celery)
- Awareness of Firebase Auth or other third-party authentication systems
- Monitoring experience (Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry)
- Growth mindset & eagerness to explore new technologies
Nice to have
- AWS (Lightsail, S3, ECS) or Google Cloud experience
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Automated API testing (pytest, Swagger)
- Multi-tenant application architecture knowledge
- DevOps & backend engineering bridge experience
Benefits
- Key role in a fast-paced venture environment
- Collaborative culture with flat hierarchies and autonomy
- Modern infrastructure and tooling
- Flexible work arrangements & remote options (Hybrid)
- Competitive salary & 30 vacation days (full-time)
Ready to build the backbone of future tech leaders? Apply now, we look forward to hearing from you!
