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 the GraphQL API layer, design flexible schemas, identify performance bottlenecks, and mentor engineers on best practices for real-time optimization of customer-facing surfaces.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Own and evolve the GraphQL API layer serving our most critical customer-facing surfaces, including search, discovery, and checkout.
- Design schemas and query patterns that balance flexibility for consumers with performance and reliability at scale.
- Establish and enforce API Platform standards: schema governance, deprecation policies, federation patterns, and query complexity controls.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks - N+1 patterns, over-fetching, slow resolvers - in production systems under real traffic.
- Partner with product engineering teams as an internal platform owner: unblock them, onboard them, and raise the quality bar across the org.
- Drive observability: query tracing, latency analysis, and SLA monitoring for the GraphQL layer.
- Mentor engineers across the organization on GraphQL best practices.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Deep, hands-on GraphQL expertise: schema design, federation (Apollo Federation or equivalent), resolvers, dataloader patterns, persisted queries, and query cost analysis.
- Strong grasp of distributed systems: how to design services that are observable, resilient, and easy to reason about under load.
- Fluency in at least one of: Java, Go, or Node.js.
- Ability to prioritize and manage stakeholders; known for good communication and collaboration skills.
- Positive, proactive team player who is passionate about their craft. You find mentoring and sharing knowledge fulfilling.
- Customer-centric prioritization and data-driven decision-making mindset.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Experience
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with at least 2 years focused on GraphQL in a production environment.
- Proven track record operating GraphQL at scale - high-throughput, customer-facing APIs where reliability and latency directly affect user experience.
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What we offer
- Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development.
- Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year.
- A hybrid working approach with three days of in-office collaboration (Mon, Tue, Thu) and two days of optional at-home focus time.
- Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events.
- Monthly transportation and fitness budget.
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- Language reimbursement program.
- Health and wellness benefits.
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Description
- Founding year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL - API Platform
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
