Senior Backend Engineer

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Time to shape the future of our customer journey! As a Senior Backend Engineer (all genders), you'll be at the forefront of developing and refining critical awareness and search experiences. Collaborating within a dynamic cross-functional team, you'll architect and build innovative, customer-centric solutions in the AWS cloud, directly impacting user satisfaction and our technical standards.

• Participate & lead the development and continuous refinement of search and customer awareness experience in a collaborative cross-functional team setting.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Dev Ops engineers, and stakeholders to design, develop, and optimize backend services for customer-facing solutions within an AWS cloud environment.
• Identify, overcome, and innovate around technical obstacles, ensuring seamless service functionality.
• Facilitate and drive technical discussions and decision-making processes within your team, always prioritizing customer impact and technical excellence.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and technical advancement among peers.
• Drive technical discussions and maintain a relentless focus on delivering high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code.

• 5+ years of proficient, hands‑on expertise in Node.js , with a strong understanding and deep mastery of backend development principles.
• Proven excellence in designing and developing complex, distributed systems, ideally within highly scalable cloud environments.
• Solid experience with serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS Dynamo
  
  DB, S3, Step Functions, or other cloud-native services (e.g., GCP, Azure).
• Deep understanding and experience integrating test automation at various levels (unit, integration, E2E) into your development workflow.
• Database experience with both No
  
  SQL (e.g., Dynamo
  
  DB) and relational databases (e.g., Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL) in cloud environments.
• Understanding of message queuing systems (e.g., SQS, SNS) for building event-driven architectures.
• Excellent communication skills, paired with a proactive, positive, and solution-oriented mindset.
• A strong sense of ownership and drive to tackle challenges pragmatically and efficiently.
• You are passionate about e‑commerce and staying up to date with the latest advancements to ensure your skills remain cutting‑edge and impactful.

• Our employees matter to us
  :
  We offer you a permanent contract and cover the costs for your BVG or Deutschland ticket.
• Work‑life balance
  : 29 vacation days plus additional days off on the 24th and 31st December, flexible working hours, up to three days of working from home per week, and in specific cases, the option to work 100 % remotely within Germany; the possibility of a paid sabbatical.
• flaconi Academy
  :
  Actively shape your own career path by taking advantage of our internal and external training opportunities.
• We care about your well being
  :
  We want to support you also during difficult times. For this, we offer you and your close relatives counseling sessions with mental health professionals.
• flaconi fitness
  : a wide range of sports options &…