Backend Engineer in Hamburg (m/f/d)

Overview

Location: Hamburg. We are looking for a Backend Engineer (Mid-level) (m/f/d) for our Supply Operations Intelligence team. Our team builds frontend tooling that powers and scales the operational side of our mobility platform. We focus on automating workflows, supporting seamless driver onboarding, and enabling efficient operations and support systems — with a strong emphasis on quality, trust, and continuous improvement. Be ready to join a multinational, diverse, and collaborative team that strives for excellence while having fun and growing together.

Your daily adventures will include:

• Own the Feature, Own the Code – feel responsible for what you create. It all starts with bringing in your feature ideas, goes over development, testing and ends in deploying your code and monitoring it
• Design and develop systems based on product requirements or refactorings
• Maintain and improve the existing systems by finding bottlenecks and performance issues and improving resource usage (DB access, cache, messaging, etc.)
• Collaborate with your team members in an Agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies
• You care about teamwork: Be accountable for all topics above, but work together with the team on them
• Stay on top of the latest technology trends and bring best practices to our daily work

To be successful in this role:

• Passionate about Java or Kotlin
• Experience with the quirks of Spring Boot or similar frameworks, automated tests and CI/CD tools
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Datadog, Kibana, etc.)
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful APIs, dealing with transactions, and resiliency
• Familiar with messaging by using RabbitMQ or Kafka
• High level of creativity; there’s freedom to think outside the box
• Be communicative, proactive, and always collaborative
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Nice to have

• Experience working with AWS or similar cloud service providers
• Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban

Benefits & perks in a nutshell

• Flexible working arrangements
• LinkedIn Learning
• Sabbatical & special leave policies
• WeRoad partnership
• Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
• Short term EU work policy
• Mobility Credit
• Health Insurance
• Employee assistance program

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Freenow is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.

About Freenow

We are Freenow, the European taxi app with the broadest multi-mobility offering, available in 9 markets and over 180 cities. Our app gives millions of passengers the freedom to move with a wide choice of services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds and public transport. Headquartered in Hamburg and led by our CEO Thomas Zimmermann, we are on a mission to make urban mobility more efficient, sustainable and inclusive. Since July 2025 we have been part of Lyft, a global mobility platform connecting riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together we are building a more caring and connected world, creating new opportunities for innovation, growth and impact.