Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop powerful, modular backend services in Go, implement APIs, and promote best practices for other teams to scale and optimize the platform sustainably.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Own Core System Services: Architect, develop, and maintain high-throughput, application-level foundational services, focusing initially on identity/authentication and our core search backend service.
- Drive Technical Evolution: Design and implement future shared services that support our vision for scaling the platform.
- Enable Engineering Teams: Build clean, robust, and well-documented internal APIs and developer tools that empower other product teams to build features rapidly and securely.
- Write Exceptional Code: Deliver highly testable, maintainable, and secure Golang code, taking full operational ownership of the components your team develops.
- Foster Best Practices: Actively participate in the Urban Sports Club backend cluster, championing strong system design, modularized architecture, and automated testing across the company.
- Collaborate Across Boundaries: Work closely with product owners, tech leads, and other engineering teams to understand their requirements and translate them into scalable, domain-agnostic solutions.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You possess a deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed system design. You know how to build modular, high-volume services that remain performant under heavy traffic.
- You have a track record of designing clean, secure, and developer-friendly internal APIs that scale across multiple engineering teams.
- You are comfortable working within cloud ecosystems (GCP/AWS) from an application perspective, understanding how to leverage cloud-managed services efficiently.
- You break down complex, abstract problems into elegant software solutions. You communicate effectively with technical stakeholders and love mentoring others.
- You engage, inspire, and motivate the people you work with. We like to have fun while building the backbone of a platform that inspires healthy living.
Experience
- You have extensive industry experience as a Senior Backend Engineer developing, optimizing, and troubleshooting large-scale applications written in Go (6+ years).
- You have a solid understanding of (or direct experience with) core foundational services like Identity/Authentication protocols (e.g., Keycloak, OAuth2, OIDC) and search engines.
- Experience with PHP is a nice-to-have. We have some legacy context here, so a familiarity with PHP helps if you need to understand existing logic during modernizations or integrations - but your primary daily weapon will be Go.
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What we offer
- Work on cutting-edge tech and influence the future of our stack: explore our Tech Radar.
- We're open to relocation and providing support with our visa agency.
- Free Urban Sports Club L Pro Membership + Friends and Family Discount: Stay active with free membership, plus discounts for friends and family.
- Flexible Work Model: Enjoy a hybrid work setup, balancing on-site and remote work options to fit your lifestyle.
- Extended Remote Work Options: Work up to 120 days remotely within the EU, the UK, and Switzerland, including 30 days outside the EU. You'll also have the option to desk-swap at our other European offices.
- WorkOUT Life Balance: Take advantage of 30 days of paid vacation annually, plus two additional days for volunteering, flexible working hours, and complimentary access to our mental health provider Open Up.
- Personal Development: Receive an annual budget of €1,000 for professional growth, with regular internal training sessions and weekly German and English language classes.
- Engaging Team Culture: Participate in regular team and company events along with wellness initiatives that help you stay productive, healthy, and engaged in a hybrid work environment.
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Benefits
Health, Fitness & Fun
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Urban Sports GmbH
With the right range of sports and training partners, everyone can create an individual training plan and be motivated to lead a healthier and more active lifestyle. The Urban Sports Club offers a flexible sports flat rate that allows members to plan their training from over 50 sports and more than 10,000 locations in four countries (Germany, France, Italy, Portugal) and check in via smartphone app.
Description
- Founding year
- 2012
- Company Type
- Digital Agency
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Sports, Leisure, Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Backend Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
