Senior Backend Software Engineer (Cloud Monetization Platform)

Team: IT

Location: Netherlands

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services that form the commercial and monetization foundation of a cloud platform.
• Build reliable distributed workflows where correctness, consistency, resilience, and performance are critical.
• Develop clean and maintainable abstractions that support rapidly evolving pricing, billing, contracts, and commercial models.
• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of microservices and distributed systems operating at significant scale.
• Design and improve asynchronous workflows, ensuring reliable processing across interconnected services and business-critical operations.
• Work with technologies including Python, gRPC, Temporal, YDB, Kafka-like messaging, Kubernetes, and a broad ecosystem of microservices.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Take ownership of technical decisions, proactively identify areas for improvement, and contribute to the long-term evolution of the platform.
• Help establish engineering practices that support reliability, scalability, maintainability, and rapid product development.
• Contribute to a fast-moving engineering environment focused on solving challenging infrastructure and cloud monetization problems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
• Strong proficiency in Python or the ability and willingness to become productive quickly within the technology stack.
• Hands-on experience building distributed backend systems and microservice architectures.
• Solid understanding of distributed transactions, consistency models, and reliable asynchronous workflows.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable backend services.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with an emphasis on clean architecture, reliability, maintainability, and performance.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in an international and multidisciplinary environment.
• Strong sense of ownership, autonomy, and accountability, combined with a proactive approach to solving complex technical problems.
• Experience with billing, payments, pricing, or other monetization systems is a valuable advantage.
• Familiarity with technologies such as gRPC, Temporal, YDB, Kafka-style messaging, Kubernetes, or similar distributed infrastructure is beneficial.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Opportunities for career growth, continuous learning, and professional development.
• Flexible working arrangements with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
• Opportunity to work remotely while collaborating with an international engineering team.
• Collaborative, innovative, and fast-moving working culture.
• Opportunity to work on technically challenging infrastructure supporting the rapidly growing AI ecosystem.
• Meaningful ownership and the opportunity to influence architecture, engineering practices, and platform development.
• Exposure to large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and cutting-edge AI technology.