Backend Engineer (f/m/d)

Our mission is to deliver a platform for surveys to increase application portfolio assessment. As a (junior) Backend Engineer you are not only an individual contributor, but you also help solving business domain problems. You will play an integral role in our development team, responsible for building and maintaining the server-side logic of our dynamic, interactive online survey platform.

Our team is one of four cross-functional teams building the foundation of our EAM product. The team’s mission is to:

• Improve data gathering for portfolio applications of big companies
• Simplify surveys to a non-technical audience
• Improve and secure API
• Help define features
  
  

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

• Empowering Work Environment: We've invested heavily in creating an environment that fosters growth and provides open access to leadership, transparent communication, and opportunities for personal development.
• Complex Engineering Challenges: We're tackling hard engineering problems at a large scale, requiring creativity and strong engineering expertise.
• Empowered Product Teams: You're not just executing a roadmap; you're solving real problems. We value and reward outcomes, not just output.
• Ownership and Autonomy: We build it, we run it! We ensure our customers can rely on our features. This means we value resilience, automation, and proactive problem-solving.
• Continuous Improvement: We prioritize ongoing learning, collaboration, and sharing knowledge. We strive to continuously improve our products by validating and measuring user interactions.
• Work-Life Balance: We believe a well-rested and well-rounded individual makes the best engineer. We support remote or on-site work and offer flexible working hours to adapt your job to your life

WHAT IS WAITING FOR YOU?

• Implementation of scalable & secure backend services in Kotlin/Java
• Work on technical challenges
• Consumption of state-of-the-art GraphQL APIs
• Taking over ownership and driving topics that you are passionate about and that contribute to our product vision
• Passionate colleagues who are looking forward to share knowledge (see our blog!) and learn from you
• Shape the way we work. You know a technology that will improve our daily work or our product? Bring it on!

WHAT IS OUR STACK?

• Java and Kotlin using microservice frameworks, e.g. Dropwizard/Spring Boot
• PostgreSQL
• Automated testing (JUnit, Testcontainers)
• API technologies such as GraphQL and REST
• Modern CI/CD toolchains, e.g., Github Actions
• Azure Cloud (Kubernetes, Managed PostgreSQL, Eventhubs, Storage)
• Monitoring & Alerting, e.g. Instana, Azure Log Analytics, PagerDuty
• Product Usage Tracking using Amplitude & Azure Log Analytics

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

You should apply if you are someone who likes to:

• Collaborate with Product Management & UI/UX teams as part of a customer focused team.
• Be guided by engineering values: they aren’t just some pretty word on a blog post. We live by them and challenge ourselves with them.
• Share knowledge and make people around him/her grow: could it be through active mentorship, pair programming, code reviews or knowledge sharing sessions
• Be in the driver seat: this position requires proactivity and ownership.
• frequently get out of its comfort zone: we grow at a fast pace and evolve frequently
• Do it right the first time: we believe quality iterative development brings velocity, not the other way around. We live by the value to produce outcome and not output