Technical Excellence Leader

vor 2 Wochen


Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland Contentful Vollzeit

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team at Contentful, a pioneer in composable personalization and experimentation.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance backend services with a focus on reliability and scalability based on modern technologies like Cloudflare Workers.

Your work will enable our customers to serve personalized digital user experiences in the most performant way possible. You will constantly search for opportunities to improve system performance and iterate on its architecture.

You will solve technical challenges in creative ways, balancing the tradeoff between performance and elegant software architecture. Continuously monitor and optimize system performance through benchmarking, while making sure the system is well instrumented for observability.

Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and constantly evaluate their potential usage at Ninetailed.

What to Expect?

  • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services.
  • Continuously monitor and optimize system performance.
  • Solve technical challenges in creative ways.
  • Implement defensive coding practices.
  • Guarantee correctness and maintainable code through automated testing.

Requirements:

  • Proven experience in building APIs and services that efficiently handle large volumes of traffic.
  • Strong proficiency with server-side TypeScript and API protocol design.
  • Experience with serverless architectures, ideally edge compute environments such as Cloudflare Workers.
  • Familiarity with lower-level languages such as Rust is a plus.
  • Familiarity with runtime environments like V8 and experience in optimizing infrastructure and algorithms for performance.
  • Hands-on experience with benchmarking, instrumenting code for observability, and performance optimization for large-scale systems.
  • Expertise in defensive coding practices, ensuring system robustness and fault tolerance.
  • Proficiency in using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and maintaining automated tests with tools like Jest or Mocha.
  • Proactive approach with a high sense of ownership.
  • Great communication skills in English, especially when explaining complex technical concepts.

What's in it for You?

  • Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences.
  • $120,000 - $160,000 per year salary.
  • Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
  • Work-Life balance and time off policy.
  • Company-paid parental leave.
  • An annual wellbeing stipend.
  • A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
  • New hire office equipment stipend.


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