Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you will design and develop robust backend systems for dynamic content delivery, work on API definition and evolution, and ensure high performance for billions of monthly requests.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Design and build core backend systems for dynamic content resolution and delivery.
- Define and evolve APIs, schemas, and versioning strategies with long-term stability in mind, which can consistently cater to billions of requests every month.
- Solve complex engineering and Content Modelling problems, working across multiple layers and systems.
- Implement deterministic, cache-aware execution pipelines with strong performance guarantees.
- Develop on our platform with services like AWS, CloudFlare, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Own the system in production, including observability, debugging and operational reliability.
- Collaborate closely with product managers and other engineers to integrate with a high-performance ecosystem.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Strong backend skills and knowledge of system design, performance and maintainability.
- Product mindset with empathy for customers (content practitioners, marketers, and developers).
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguity and make sound technical tradeoffs.
- Strong teamwork skills, able to explain the reasoning behind your technical choices and be open to diverse opinions
Experience
- Experience with owning/maintaining and improving complex, long-lived production systems.
- Experience with evolving APIs and data models used by other teams or customers.
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What we offer
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences.
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company.
- Umfassendes Gesundheitsversorgungspaket, das 100 % der monatlichen Krankenversicherungsbeiträge für Mitarbeitende und 85 % der Kosten für Ihre Angehörigen abdeckt.
- Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss, education days, and volunteer days.
- Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family.
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career.
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties.
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health.
- A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
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About Your Employer
Contentful GmbH
Contentful is the essential platform for creating digital experiences for world-renowned brands. Our content infrastructure provides a powerful API that lets you manage, integrate, and deliver content to any device or service. Developers and content creators can work on digital products simultaneously and edit content, so teams can ship faster.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Founding Year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Digital Agency
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Backend Software Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
