Senior Backend Engineer in Hamburg - Health & B2B (f/m/d)

Location: Hamburg

Department: Tech

Location: Come and join us in Hamburg!

Join us as a Senior Backend Engineer to build the intuitive platform that powers our diverse B2B, Health, and Partnerships platforms. As a Backend Engineer in one of our Health & B2B teams, your work will focus on building new, user-facing features for customers directly. You will be responsible for creating the backbone of our specialized services, allowing users to easily manage business travel or patient transport. Your code will be the bridge that seamlessly connects our corporate and health partnerships to the everyday user, making their travel easier and more efficient.

Be ready to join a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative team who strives for excellence and likes to have fun, while building great features and products.

YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-quality backend services.
• Taking full ownership of features—from brainstorming and design to deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Working closely with engineers, product managers, and customer success teams to build impactful solutions.
• Exploring and integrating AI-powered tools and workflows to drive innovation in our platform.
• Contributing ideas to improve team practices, engineering quality, and overall development efficiency.
• Ensuring system reliability with thoughtful monitoring, alerting, and robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Actively participating in our backend engineering community—sharing knowledge, discussing trends, and growing together.
• Thriving in a culture built on transparency, continuous learning, mutual respect, and team recognition.
  Our Techstack: Kotlin | Spring | Go | PostgreSQL | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka & more

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:

• You bring solid experience in backend development and know what it takes to build production-grade systems.
• You have hands-on experience—or are eager to get up to speed—with Kotlin, Spring, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Kafka.
• You take initiative and ownership of your work, and you're always looking for ways to improve.
• You thrive in collaborative, autonomous teams where sharing knowledge and giving feedback are part of everyday life.
• You enjoy working with both deep tech experts and product-oriented thinkers.
• You’re purpose-driven and motivated by challenges that make a real impact.
• You’re a creative problem solver with a pragmatic mindset and a passion for clean, maintainable code.
• You’re confident in communicating in English, both written and spoken.

BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:

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.

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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.