Senior Backend Engineer

Job description

### About the Role Join a small, fast-moving engineering team building the backbone of an AI-powered supply chain platform for Consumer Packaged Goods companies. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll own backend systems end-to-end — turning messy, real-world logistics data into programmable, reliable infrastructure that scales globally. ### What You'll Do - Design and implement backend systems that power AI-driven supply chain planning and execution decisions. - Architect data models and pipelines to ingest and organise complex, real-world supply chain data. - Ensure user requests and supply plans are processed in real time with high reliability. - Build scalable, high-performance SQL queries and data access patterns over large datasets. - Ship production-grade services using modern backend frameworks and rigorous testing practices. - Collaborate closely with product and engineering to translate logistics workflows into software. - Operate and improve deployment and runbook processes to maintain 24/7 system availability. ### What We're Looking For - 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping real products. - Strong Python expertise and experience with modern backend frameworks such as FastAPI and testing tools like pytest. - Proficiency with AI-assisted code generation and management tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex), including experience parallelising instances for continuous operation. - Proven ability to design scalable data architectures and own backend systems end-to-end, including real-time request processing. - Strong SQL skills and experience writing high-performance queries across millions of records. - Experience ingesting and organising unstructured, messy real-world data. - Familiarity with DevOps practices and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred). - Bonus: experience with frontend frameworks and their testing. - Comfortable working with minimal supervision in a small, fast-paced startup environment. ### Compensation & Benefits Salary range: **$110,000 – $200,000 USD annually**. Visa sponsorship is available. ### Location On-site in **Munich, Germany**.