You will be part of an ambitious and highly motivated team which is building and delivering a market-leading annotation product to our customers. As a Backend Software Engineer you are responsible for the stability and scalability of our web-based annotation tooling.

Living the principles of an open-minded developer, you will mainly focus on building the underlying cloud services but also help to improve the web application. You engage with task & workflow orchestration systems, annotation web application, user management & IAM and many more aspects of our highly scalable services. You are an expert in building a scalable backend system but don’t hesitate to work in the surrounding areas. As a team, we build, ship, and operate our products to make AI accessible. 

• You build products and features in a microservice architecture with a strong focus on scalability, decoupling and robustness within an experienced team
• You optimize services for performance and scalability
• You write clean, maintainable, and well tested code and participate in code reviews
• You interact with Site Reliability Engineers & extend metrics sent out by our services
• You build applications and improve existing services, that make management of our annotation projects more efficient

• You have an university degree in Computer Science (or similar) or a track record of successfully completed projects
• You have experience with one or more of the technologies listed
• You are familiar with agile software development
• You have solid software engineering skills or want to build those
• You have a strong eye for finding performance impediments and knowledge to solve them
• You have passion for building large-scalable backend services and writing great code for them
• You raise concerns over code quality or lacking test cases and fix problems once you see them
• You enjoy working in a team and actively communicating with your colleagues
• You have good English communication skills, both written and verbal

• A crucial role in a dynamic and fast-growing team
• A work environment that fosters trust, respect, and feedback
• An onboarding buddy to integrate you smoothly into our team
• Productivity and improvement time between the development sprints
• A mentor helping you with your personal goals, technical progress in general and your software engineering skills in particular
• Free snacks, drinks, and the option to join activities like hiking, inline-skating, climbing or board game nights
• Competitive salary, flexible working hours, work from home