As a Senior Backend Engineer you'll be developing new product functionalities, such as our discovery and learning tools which make simpleclub special. You will play a key role in building a product and the team that will impact the way millions of students experience education and learning.

Tasks

Dive into our agile, cross-functional team and play a pivotal role in shaping and refining our products and platform.
Take the lead in designing and implementing innovative features that resonate with our users.
Engage in our team’s dynamic processes. Collaborate, share insights, and help elevate our engineering practices and backend architecture.
Your contributions go beyond code. Directly shape the way learners and trainers discover and engage with content.

Requirements

Solid Software development experience. You have 5+ years of software development experience
Strong Computer Science and Software Development fundamentals. You hold a relevant Degree or have proven understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
Product development experience. You have participated in product development efforts and initiatives from a technical perspective.
Strong background in a range of Backend technologies. You should be familiar with Node.js, GCP, Google Cloud functions, REST APIs and Pub/Sub.
Passion. You are highly passionate about developing high performing, high quality, efficient systems and understanding user problems to find solutions.
Comfortable in fast-paced environments. Welcoming and leading through change and high ambiguity
Outstanding communication skills. You are a strong communicator and you are able to contextualize your ideas and communicate them to small or bigger audiences.
A team player. You bring excellent interpersonal skills, valuing collaboration, knowledge sharing and sense of ownership.

Benefits

Unlimited paid holidays
Work from anywhere
Team events
A great culture
Education via Sunlight
Join a purposeful mission

💰Your salary: We 💙 transparency. We have different levels within our salary bands, and we use these levels to determine a fair salary for each range. Your salary is reviewed at least once a year.

The salary band for this role in Germany is: 70.100 - 90.000 EUR annually gross. If you live outside of Germany, we will adapt to your local market.

We are in the process of rolling out salary bands in job descriptions to ensure we treat all employees fairly. Once we get to know each other better and your skills & experience during the interview process, we will be able to evaluate where you would fit within the salary band.

🌍 simpleclub welcomes everyone. Yes, everyone:

At simpleclub we are devoted to building an environment that promotes equality, inclusion, and diversity. We are on the path towards expansion and with that, we believe everyone’s uniqueness should be celebrated and embraced. This is critical to our success and innovation. We want to build a product that is loved by everyone and we want the same to be reflected in our teams.

It is key to us that our employees bring themselves to work no matter what age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, color of your skin, beliefs, gender, or else.

With this in mind, we are working to ensure simpleclub remains a diverse and inclusive environment for everyone.