Sendcloud · Retail and e-commerce

Senior Backend Engineer

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What you'll do

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Shape the technical roadmap for impactful, multi-phase projects, delivering customer value iteratively and making sound technical decisions when requirements are open-ended.
Scope, plan, and estimate large features and lead projects involving multiple engineers, managing complex technical and strategic trade-offs.
Own what you build from code to production—respond with urgency to operational issues, balance delivery against technical debt, and keep systems reliable and scalable.
Break complex problems and fuzzy requirements into well-designed, extensible components, and contribute to major architectural decisions and ADRs.

Shape the technical direction of impactful, multi-phase projects and refine roadmaps as they progress, delivering measurable customer value.
Lead large features and projects involving multiple engineers, managing ambiguous requirements and complex technical trade-offs.
Own your systems from design through production—respond to operational issues with urgency, maintain reliability, and balance new delivery against technical debt.
Design and implement distributed, event-driven systems with service-to-service APIs, ensuring patterns and practices that keep them reliable and maintainable.
Mentor and upskill engineers on your team and beyond, driving documentation, knowledge sharing, and raising the technical bar.
Partner closely with Product, Design, DevOps, QA, and other engineering teams, articulating technical risk clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

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💸 Salary - Starting from €80,000 annually, which includes an 8% holiday allowance.

🧠 Brain Benefits - €2,000 learning budget · Courses, certifications & conferences ·
Growth in an international team

🌴 Time Benefits - 28 days of paid vacations per year · Extra day off on your birthday ·
Swap public holidays for meaningful ones

✈️ Sabbatical Benefits - 4 weeks fully paid every 3 years

🏡 Home Benefits - Flexible hybrid model (2+ days/week in office) · €500 home office
budget

💪 Body Benefits - Company gym · Free lunch every Monday · Fresh fruit · Barista coffee

🚌 Travel Benefits - Monthly commuting allowance

🪑 Future Benefits - Pension scheme · Employee discount programs

🐾 Vibe Benefits - Dog-friendly office · After-hours drinks at the Sendcloud Bar

Last checked 2 Nov 2026. The details above were extracted automatically; the employer's original posting is the authority.