Backend Engineer

🕒 September 24

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

💵 €70k - €100k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

📚 Education

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 $1.2M Pre seed on 2025-09

Education • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

paddy is a GDPR-compliant AI-powered platform that supports teachers and schools with lesson planning, automated material creation, in-class tools, and learning analytics. It provides a cloud-based workspace where educators can generate worksheets, mindmaps, differentiated materials, and automated feedback; share resources with students and classes; and get class-level insights and learning-stand analyses. paddy is offered via free and paid subscription tiers for individual teachers and school licenses, emphasizing time savings, classroom integration, and data privacy for the education sector.

📋 Description

• Develop API-first services, data models, and system boundaries • Guide features from the user problem through the backend and data model to the UI and production • Implement product functionality using LLM APIs and agentic components • Use tool calling, evaluations, error handling, and monitoring • Own systems and ensure production quality through testing, CI/CD, and observability • Engage with teachers to identify their actual needs • Make decisions collaboratively with Product and Design • Design and operate APIs, data models, and services • Collaborate with the founders as well as the Product and Engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• At least three years of experience developing and operating modern web applications • Ideally, experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and Next.js • Experience designing and implementing APIs, data models, and backend services • Strong command of API design, databases, and asynchronous processes • Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring is a plus • Knowledge of React and Next.js • Hands-on experience building LLM-based features or API-driven agentic systems • Understanding of tool calling, common model failures, and quality assurance and monitoring for these features • Ability to work with open-ended requirements and take ownership of systems in production • Product mindset and ability to connect technical decisions to user needs • Fluent in German and highly proficient in English

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity (VSOP) • 100% remote work • Modern office in Bielefeld, if preferred • Significant freedom to shape your work and take ownership • Direct collaboration with the founders and the Product and Engineering teams • Generous budget as long as it delivers value • Professional development budget • Coaching • Clear career development opportunities • 30 vacation days • €50 monthly tax-free benefit allowance • Regular team events and offsites • Strong backing from experienced investors and mentors

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