Senior Backend Engineer

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October 22

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Software • Enterprise

Flip is a company that provides an employee app designed to assist both users and administrators. It offers a range of functionalities for managing app installations, logins, and various app features. Flip also provides support for app administration and optimization of employee onboarding processes. The company prioritizes user feedback and offers customer support to address any issues or suggestions regarding the app. Additionally, there is an emphasis on continuous improvement based on user feedback.

51 - 200 employees

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Architect and Develop Core Services: Design, develop, and operate critical backend services within our User Management domain, ensuring seamless and secure integration with our Keycloak instance. • Leverage the JVM Stack: Work hands-on with our primary technology stack, which is mostly JVM-based (Kotlin, Micronaut), alongside auxiliary components written in Python and Go. • Drive Engineering Excellence: Develop software following modern practices: API first, code reviews, automated tests, and utilizing MR environments for exploratory testing before a merge. • Own the Topics: Take charge of technical topics important to you, driving significant decisions, and seeking alignment across teams within our backend guild. • Deployment and Operations: Deploy (Kubernetes, Helm) and monitor (Grafana, Sentry, Mixpanel) your services within the team, with the support of a separate team of SREs for on-call duty.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in backend or full-stack development. • Core Language Proficiency: Very good knowledge of Kotlin/Java and relevant Frameworks (such as Micronaut, Spring, etc.). • Production Operations: Demonstrable hands-on experience in deploying and running applications on production systems (e.g., cloud, containerized environments). • Ownership and Collaboration: Strong sense of responsibility and ownership for your topics, coupled with a collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills. • Nice to Haves: Background in SaaS environments. • Familiarity with PostgreSQL. • Experience with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka). • Prior exposure to Keycloak or similar Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work mode: We’re remote-first, giving you flexibility to work from home. At the same time, we deeply value the power of in-person collaboration. Depending on the role, you’ll join occasional team events, workshops, or meetings in our Berlin or Stuttgart offices - always with plenty of notice. The exact balance will be discussed during your interview. • Work-Life-Balance: We don't want you to grow roots to your desk chair. That's why we cover the costs of your E-Gym-Wellpass membership and offer job bike leasing. • Celebrating success: Expect highly motivated and committed people in a relaxed working atmosphere. • Be part of something bigger: You actively shape Flip in your role. Along the way, you are an enabler of the rapid growth process of a young tech company and grow towards your goals, fun is guaranteed. • Happy to be a Flipster: Stay tuned for regular team events and culture days that bring us together as Flipsters. • Working abroad: At Flip you can also work abroad in the European Union. Let's talk about remote work in the interview.