Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop scalable backend services for an integrated marketplace platform, optimize system performance, and lead technical projects over several months.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will work on a marketplace of tools and integrations that Parloa's agents leverage via MCP.
- Design, build, and maintain secure and scalable backend services.
- Optimize system performance for low latency, high throughput, and reliability.
- Collaborate across teams to integrate machine learning components into production systems.
- Lead technical initiatives - design, planning, implementation, and maintenance (3-9 months horizon).
- Drive initiatives to improve operational excellence.
- Contribute to the evolution of our architecture and engineering culture.
- Set cultural standards for fearless iteration, bias for action, and pragmatic perfectionism - design for tomorrow, build for today.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and APIs.
- A bias for action, strong ownership, and a passion for clean, pragmatic code.
- Strong spoken and written communication skills in English.
- Curiosity and openness to work with AI-assisted coding tools.
- Thrives in ambiguous, high-stakes environments with a strong sense of urgency.
- Embodies Parloa's ambition: to build Europe's leading engineering culture and a world-class AI platform.
- Motivated by making the impossible possible and building something iconic.
Experience
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Experience in Typescript, Node (ideally NestJS); or experience with comparable frameworks in other languages, and a willingness to learn and code in Typescript.
- Experience with developing and maintaining highly scalable and reliable microservices.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes, GCP/AWS).
- Experience in leading technical projects (3-9 months horizon).
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What we offer
- At Parloa, ownership isn't a buzzword; it means being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks.
- We operate in a category that's evolving fast, where the bar is high, and the problems are complex.
- We hire people who think in solutions, communicate with clarity, and follow through.
- People who are comfortable making decisions, taking responsibility, and raising the standard for themselves and those around them.
- We've grown beyond the earliest startup phase, but we've kept the intensity: fast execution, direct feedback, and a strong expectation to contribute meaningfully from day one.
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This is your employer
Parloa Gmbh
Parloa GmbH, a tech company based in Berlin, provides support to enterprise clients looking to scale AI agents for natural customer conversations with its AI Agent Management Platform AMP. The company serves global brands such as Allianz, Booking.com, SAP, and Swiss Life, enabling over a billion customer interactions. With offices in Berlin, Munich, and New York, Parloa employs around 350 staff and is expanding internationally.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Backend Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
