Senior Backend Engineer – Platform

Overview

Build and operate our platform on Google Cloud (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager). Own Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, plus CI/CD pipelines and clean promotion across dev, test and production. Develop backend services in Python, design clean APIs, and integrate with internal and third-party systems. Build production data pipelines on BigQuery: partitioning, cost and performance tuning, scheduled queries, batch and streaming workloads. Shape a scalable, maintainable platform architecture with clean separation of concerns. Work within security and IAM standards suited to regulated financial institutions: GCP IAM, RBAC and SSO, audit logging, Binary Authorization, VPC Service Controls.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate our platform on Google Cloud (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager).
• Own Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, plus CI/CD pipelines and clean promotion across dev, test and production.
• Develop backend services in Python, design clean APIs, and integrate with internal and third-party systems.
• Build production data pipelines on BigQuery: partitioning, cost and performance tuning, scheduled queries, batch and streaming workloads.
• Shape a scalable, maintainable platform architecture with clean separation of concerns.
• Work within security and IAM standards suited to regulated financial institutions: GCP IAM, RBAC and SSO, audit logging, Binary Authorization, VPC Service Controls.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend or platform engineering, with production experience on Google Cloud.
• Strong Python and clean API and service design.
• Hands-on data engineering on BigQuery.
• Solid DevOps practice: Terraform, CI/CD, containerized workloads.
• Practical depth in cloud security and IAM: identity, access control, audit logging.
• Fluent German (C1 or higher) and fluent English.
• Big plus: background with regulated financial institutions or a comparable regulated setting.