Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 September 10

🌐 Germany, Portugal – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Emma – The Sleep Company

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2013

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Wellness

Emma – The Sleep Company is a company dedicated to enhancing people's sleep with innovative technologies and developments. Originally founded to improve sleep quality, Emma now invests significantly in research and development to produce scientifically-based products, such as award-winning mattresses in the UK. Emma also explores novel approaches to sleep enhancement, such as music albums for better rest and AI-powered sleep solutions. With a focus on e-commerce and technology, Emma – The Sleep Company is expanding globally, opening retail stores, and engaging in social initiatives such as Christmas toy donations and mental health awareness. Emma offers diverse career opportunities, encourages personal and professional growth, and supports a dynamic, international community of employees.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and scale backend services in Go and Typescript for global fulfillment and logistics operations • Develop and maintain secure, high-performance REST APIs integrating internal systems and third-party providers • Work with event-driven architectures using AWS SNS and SQS • Own backend components end-to-end, including development, testing, deployment, and monitoring • Ensure code quality through automated testing, code reviews, and continuous delivery pipelines • Share knowledge, mentor team members, and foster collaboration and continuous improvement • Contribute to recruiting efforts • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend developers to build reliable, scalable services supporting global operations

🎯 Requirements

• Strong track record designing and delivering scalable, performant backend systems in a cloud environment, preferably with Go (Golang) and Typescript • Experience building event-driven architectures using AWS SNS/SQS • Familiarity with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes • Solid understanding of RESTful API design, microservices, and systems integration patterns • Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software design patterns • Several years of backend software development experience, ideally in e-commerce or logistics • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines • Experience writing clean, maintainable, well-documented code • Experience with monitoring tools and observability best practices is a plus • Highly self-organized with ownership and proactive problem-solving mindset • Strong communication and teamwork skills • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience required

🏖️ Benefits

• A combination of personal and company growth to accelerate your career and help you reach your goals • A career development path tailored to your goals, with access to mentorship, training, and resources • Exciting and challenging projects as part of a dedicated, international team • Culture of collaboration and innovation with freedom to implement new ideas and shape processes • Opportunities to work and learn from experts in diverse fields • Company events