Senior Backend Developer

About the role

As a Senior Backend Developer, you work at the core of our company with a direct impact on the quality and development of our unique real-time data products. With your expertise in C# and distributed systems, you will create the technological foundation upon which our clients in politics, business, and media base their strategic decisions.

What you'll do

• You are a member of an active, solution-oriented, cross-functional and agile team collaborating with Product Owners, Frontend Engineers and Designers.
• You take ownership of the development, deployment and operations of new features.
• You protect our data integrity, and make sure our authentication and authorization run smoothly and securely.
• You monitor the performance and solve arising issues, trying to think in advance how to avoid them.
• You have an in-depth understanding of Civey's business and architecture, acting as an expert for software solutions, offering support and mentorship to your colleagues in the organisation.
• You work with a state-of-the-art stack on top of a bare metal infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes.
• You participate in daily stand-ups, feature planning and retrospectives.

What you'll need

• You have 5+ years of C# experience overall.
• You show demonstrable knowledge of web technologies and distributed systems.
• You have a deep understanding of relational databases, especially PostgreSQL (indexes, execution plan analysis, performance tuning, trade-offs).
• You thoroughly understand service design using REST and gRPC.
• You bring a deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms. In addition you show proficiency at computational complexity analysis.
• You have experience working with LINQ queries and experience with message queues, service buses and job scheduling services (e.g. Apache Kafka, Redis).
• You have good knowledge of object oriented design and experience working with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
• You have a high proficiency level in spoken and written English and strong communication skills.

Nice to have

• Frontend or Data Science skills would be a plus

What they offer

• 30 days of vacation plus one additional day off each at Christmas and New Year's
• Flexible working hours with hybrid work option - 4 team days at Berlin office per month
• Individual career plans and regular feedback meetings
• Urban Sports Club Membership, BVG ticket or company bike
• Company pension plan and occupational disability insurance
• Apple laptops, free drinks and fruit in the office