Backend Engineer - Platform

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Working on critical backend services and shared platform components that support ingestion, request routing, caching, reliability, and production operations.
• - Profiling bottlenecks and improving performance in critical paths.
• - Reducing operational toil by turning manual or fragile processes into repeatable, well-owned systems.
• - Helping with incident prevention, operational reviews, and follow-up work after reliability issues.
• - Keeping key dependencies current and operationally safe.
• - Improving the observability stack: telemetry, dashboards, alerting, and long-term visibility into system health.
• - Working on Kubernetes lifecycle tasks, cluster-level infrastructure, or deployment safety.
• - Improving CI/CD foundations so teams can ship and operate changes with more confidence.
• - Making development and test environments faster, more stable, and more useful for engineering teams.

Required Skills

• - Strong experience building backend services, distributed systems, infrastructure components, or high-volume production systems.
• - Highly proficient in Python.
• - Comfortable working close to production: debugging incidents, understanding system behavior, improving observability, and making services more reliable.
• - Enjoy solving low-level and systemic problems, not only shipping new features.
• - Care about performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational simplicity.
• - Pragmatic: can move fast when needed, but knows when stability, safety, and maintainability matter more.
• - Take ownership, follow through, and make progress even when things are not fully defined.
• - Like data and SQL, and curious about how real-time analytical systems work.
• - Communicate clearly in writing.
• - Use AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or others to move faster, stay unblocked, and improve the way you work.
• - Fluent in English and Spanish.

Benefits

• - 22 days of holiday a year (plus your birthday and public holidays).
• - Freedom to work from wherever suits you best.
• - Up to €2,400 to help you set up your home work space.