Intermediate Backend Engineer, EMEA

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential DevOps platform organization seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer for their EMEA team. In this role, you will own backend features and improvements from problem clarification through production deployment and monitoring.

You will design, implement, test, and ship backend features working primarily in Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern backend languages. Your work will include building and maintaining APIs, background jobs, integrations, and service functionality while managing data models, migrations, indexes, and query optimization.

You'll write maintainable, secure, and performant code with comprehensive automated test coverage spanning unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing where appropriate. Code review will be a core part of your workflow—both giving and receiving feedback on correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and operational risk.

You will investigate build, test, deployment, and runtime failures at the feature boundary, identify technical debt, propose practical improvements, and participate in on-call or operational support as your team's ownership model requires. Partnership with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security teams will be essential to delivering predictably while contributing to shared backend code quality.

The role requires leveraging AI productively in daily engineering work, validating what it produces, and understanding where its limitations matter. You'll work with minimal guidance in a remote, asynchronous environment, knowing when to seek help and communicating clearly with tenured engineers who will review your work and help you grow.

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• Professional experience building and shipping production backend applications with strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals
• Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern backend languages—we value adaptability and learning ability over mastery of a single stack
• Demonstrated ability to take features from clarification through delivery and follow-up, working independently while seeking input at appropriate times
• Sound judgment regarding security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational risk
• Understanding of modular backend boundaries and the consequences of coupling
• Strong written communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in remote, asynchronous environments
• Practical experience with AI coding tools, including the ability to review and correct generated code

Helpful experience:

• Production Go services, APIs, concurrency, profiling, or gRPC
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, or cloud deployment
• Rust, particularly for systems, security, performance, or platform work
• PostgreSQL, schema evolution, caching, queues, messaging, or event-driven workflows
• Observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts
• Contributing to modular monoliths, bounded contexts, shared components, or independently operated services

How We Work with You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our talent team will screen your application and qualifications. If there's a strong match, we'll conduct an initial conversation to understand your experience and career goals.

We then submit qualified candidates to our client for their review. The client conducts their own interview process, and we support you throughout. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication flows through Get A Job.ai to ensure a professional process for everyone involved.

This is a remote position within the EMEA region, offering the autonomy to work in a distributed, asynchronous environment where clear written communication and self-direction are essential.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed with qualified candidates during the screening process.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive hiring practices. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage applications from individuals of varying experience levels. Studies show that candidates from underrepresented groups may hesitate to apply unless they meet every qualification—if this role excites you, we encourage you to apply and let our recruiters assess your fit.