Senior Backend Engineer

Your playground

As a backend engineer at shyftplan, you will be part of a highly motivated international team with a strong ambition for solving our customers' problems. You will be ​extending, maintaining, and improving our core business logic and making it available through our API at scale. You will closely collaborate with ​product team within the Scrum framework to deliver a high-quality user experience:

• Extend, maintain, and enhance our core business logic, ensuring seamless integration with our API at scale.
• Collaborate with the product team within the Scrum framework to deliver a superior user experience.
• Innovate by creating new features and improving existing functionalities in our web and mobile applications.
• Utilize state-of-the-art technologies throughout the application development process
• Contribute decisively to architectural decisions, with a primary focus on scalability to ensure robust and sustainable solutions.

Your profile

• Experience with Ruby on Rails
• Strong SQL skills (MySQL, PostgreSQL, PSQL, Oracle, MSSQL)
• 3+ years of experience in application development
• Knowledge of continuous deployment and integration practices
• Experience in identifying and resolving potential performance bottlenecks
• Good understanding of modern API design practices and standards
• Proficient in writing automated tests
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

Our perks

• A product with value added and a motivated, international team

• The opportunity for personal development, as well as good internal promotion opportunities

• A flexible home office day and a modern office in the heart of Kreuzberg

• Many perks such as a Job Bike, mobility budget, German classes and more

• The latest technology and ergonomic workstations

• Regular team events (e.g. Go Kart, Escape Room) and company lunches