Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer - Golang

Staffbase

Location:
Germany , Berlin

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join us and play a key role in designing and building these systems, shaping technical direction, and raising the bar on how analytics are built and operated at Staffbase. We are a backend-focused product team at Staffbase building customer-facing analytics that give customers real visibility into how their content is used. Our work helps customers understand user activity, engagement, and interactions across the platform - turning raw events into insights they can actually act on. The team owns the full analytics stack, from event ingestion and data modeling to APIs and services that power dashboards and reporting. We work closely with product, frontend, data, and platform teams to ensure analytics are accurate, scalable, and trustworthy.

Job Responsibility:

Design, develop, and operate scalable, reliable backend services
Build APIs and services that integrate with internal systems and external platforms
Take responsibility for production systems, from development to monitoring and operations
Work with emerging AI/LLM-based components as part of broader backend systems
Help integrate model-based services into existing architectures in a pragmatic way
Contribute to early experimentation: validating ideas, learning what works, and hardening successful prototypes for production
Collaborate with ML and Data colleagues to bring AI-driven features into real products
Define and implement observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing)
Ensure systems are secure, performant, and cost-aware
Work with cloud infrastructure and containerized environments to support reliable deployments
Act as a senior engineering partner across multiple teams, not just within your immediate squad
Work closely with product, design, data, ML, and platform teams to shape solutions end to end
Drive technical alignment across teams by influencing architecture, APIs, and shared standards
Translate loosely defined problems into concrete technical plans and guide teams through execution
Lead by example in code quality, system design, and operational ownership
Participate actively in technical strategy discussions and help steer longer-term platform direction
Mentor engineers, sharing context, raising engineering standards, and reducing siloed knowledge

Requirements:

6+ years of professional experience in backend software development
Strong proficiency in Golang and preferably experience with Java/Kotlin
Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Real-time OLAP experience (ClickHouse, Apache Doris, StarRocks etc.)
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
A pragmatic mindset: you care about maintainability, reliability, and shipping

Nice to have:

Exposure to AI/LLM-based systems or data-driven products
Basic understanding of concepts like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or model integration
Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, NATS, etc.)
Curiosity and motivation to learn new technologies as they become relevant

What we offer:

Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560
Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
Support - we’re offering a company pension scheme
Volunteers Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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