Senior Backend Engineer - Golang; in Leipzig

Senior Backend Engineer (Golang):
Designing and building scalable, reliable backend services for customer-facing analytics with an accent on API design, data modeling, and integrating AI/LLM-based components. Focus on shaping technical direction, implementing observability standards, and ensuring system reliability and performance in a cloud-native environment.

Location:

Hybrid work available, with offices in Leipzig
, Berlin
, Chemnitz
, and Dresden
.

Salary:
Competitive compensation including LTIP.

Staffbase is a Unicorn company headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, providing an AI-native Employee Experience Platform.

• Design, develop, and operate scalable, reliable backend services and APIs.
• Build and integrate AI/LLM-based components into existing architectures, contributing to early experimentation and hardening prototypes.
• Define and implement observability standards, ensuring systems are secure, performant, and cost-aware in cloud and containerized environments.
• Act as a senior engineering partner, collaborating closely with product, design, data, ML, and platform teams.
• Drive technical alignment across teams, influencing architecture and shared standards.
• Mentor engineers, sharing context and raising engineering standards.

• 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 (Click House, Apache Doris, Star Rocks etc.).
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• A pragmatic mindset, caring about maintainability, reliability, and shipping.

• 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.).

• Flexible working time models with option of hybrid work and yearly flex work allowance of €1560.
• 31 vacation days annually (including one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August.
• Company pension scheme and one Volunteers Day off per year.
• Work with skilled and diverse professionals in a team that values diversity and inclusivity.
• Team events and a "You build it, you run it" approach.