Software Engineer (Enterprise Experience, Backend)

Team: IT

Location: Netherlands

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Build and ship backend features end to end, contributing to technical design, implementation, testing, production rollout, and ongoing improvement.
• Design and implement database migrations using established patterns for schema compatibility, reliability, and safe upgrades.
• Develop observability, reporting, and audit capabilities that give administrators clear visibility into their deployments and system activity.
• Build and maintain security-focused backend features in accordance with established enterprise security practices.
• Investigate and resolve scalability and performance bottlenecks under production-like workloads, including database access patterns and concurrency within backend services.
• Troubleshoot and resolve backend issues reported by platform operators and enterprise administrators.
• Document technical solutions and implementation decisions clearly so that code and features remain maintainable for reviewers and future engineers.
• Participate actively in code reviews and RFC-style technical design discussions.
• Contribute to the engineering on-call rotation and help maintain reliable production systems.
• Collaborate with backend, platform, QA, product, and design teams to deliver a strong operator experience.
• Continuously improve the reliability, scalability, security, and operational usability of the platform.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Professional experience developing and shipping production software with Go.
• Solid understanding of Go's concurrency model, including goroutines, channels, and the sync package.
• Comfortable working with SQL, relational databases, schema changes, and database migrations.
• Strong debugging and analytical skills, with persistence in investigating complex technical problems and good judgment about when to escalate.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to surface blockers, risks, and uncertainty early.
• Self-motivated and comfortable taking ownership of technically challenging work.
• Experience with observability, audit, or security capabilities in an enterprise software environment is an advantage.
• Experience investigating performance under real-world or production-like workloads, including race conditions, is a plus.
• Familiarity with major cloud providers, Kubernetes, and container orchestration is desirable.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems at meaningful scale is beneficial.
• Curiosity about modern developer tooling and emerging approaches to software development.
• Familiarity with technologies such as PostgreSQL, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, and GitHub Actions is an advantage.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on a modern cloud-native platform serving enterprise customers.
• Hands-on exposure to Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, gRPC, observability tooling, and distributed systems.
• Ownership of backend features throughout the full software development lifecycle.
• Collaborative environment with backend, platform, QA, product, and design professionals.
• Opportunity to solve challenging problems involving scalability, security, reliability, and enterprise infrastructure.
• Participation in technical design discussions, code reviews, and production operations.
• Exposure to emerging developer tooling and AI-enabled development workflows.
• Transparent and structured interview process designed to be completed within approximately two to four weeks, subject to scheduling.
• Opportunity to contribute to a product focused on secure, governed, and scalable developer infrastructure.