Vienna, Austria (hybrid) Hybrid Employment 70.000 € to 85.000 € / year

Octrace is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs that power core platform functionality, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance under heavy load.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement scalable backend services to support growing user demand
  • Collaborate with frontend teams to define and refine API contracts
  • Optimize database queries and improve data access patterns
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely manner
  • Design and implement robust error handling and logging systems
  • Contribute to system architecture discussions and technical planning
  • Ensure backend systems meet security and compliance standards
  • Integrate third-party services and external APIs
  • Develop automated testing strategies for backend components
  • Monitor system performance and proactively address bottlenecks
  • Support deployment pipelines and infrastructure automation
  • Maintain up-to-date documentation for services and APIs
  • Work closely with product teams to understand feature requirements

Nice to Have

  • Experience with microservices architecture at scale
  • Familiarity with distributed tracing and observability tools
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar platforms
  • Knowledge of GraphQL and associated tooling
  • Background in building high-throughput data processing systems
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance
  • Contributions to open-source software projects
  • Understanding of data privacy and regulatory requirements

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Remote position with flexible hours

Team

Collaborative engineering team focused on scalable systems

Tech Stack

  • Primary languages include Go and Python
  • Services run in Docker containers orchestrated via Kubernetes
  • Infrastructure hosted on AWS with Terraform-managed configurations
  • Databases include PostgreSQL and Redis
  • Monitoring through Prometheus and Grafana

Growth Opportunities

  • Opportunities to lead technical initiatives
  • Mentorship roles for junior engineers
  • Access to conferences and professional development budgets
  • Pathways to architecture and principal engineer roles

Available for qualified candidates

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About company
Octrace

Octrace is a Temporal Intelligence Infrastructure company that specializes in predicting urgent buyers and opportunities. Unlike traditional methods that track intent, Octrace uses predictive models to identify opportunities up to 6 months before competitors. The company offers features such as API integration, predictive models, and an intelligence layer that helps businesses transform their AI SDRs into precision targeting machines. Octrace has saved companies from extinction by identifying markets with urgent regulatory demand and provides pan-European coverage with real-time accuracy. The company's platform allows businesses to build their own intelligence engine by training custom AI models on CRM history to identify ideal customers and monitor 50M companies for perfect matches. Octrace ensures secure data storage under European regulations and sources data from publicly accessible websites for accuracy.

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Job Details
Department Software Development
Category backend
Posted 9 months ago