Backend Engineer

Information Technology & Services company
Berlin, Germany
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Recruiter
Vera Bekker
Roles:
Backend
Must-have skills:
PythonTypeScriptKubernetes
Considering candidates from:
Germany
Work arrangement: Onsite
Industry: Information Technology & Services
Language: English
Level: Senior
Required experience: 5+ years
Relocation: Not paid
Visa support: Not provided
Size: 2 - 10 employees

Backend Engineer

Information Technology & Services company
Berlin, Germany
Positions for Clera

The open-source LLM Engineering Startup. It provides observability, metrics, evals, prompt management and a playground and to debug and improve LLM apps.
The company is looking for a Backend Engineer who will be responsible for the company's platform scale:

Tasks:
  • Optimizing the latency of complex database queries in Postgres or ClickHouse
  • Helping the company's customers deploy the company's product in self-hosted, e.g., by updating the k8s helm chart
  • Adding Redis queues and a worker container to the stack to execute asynchronous tasks
  • Building a POC to try out Clickhouse for the company's needs
  • Rebuilding the SDKs to execute networking fully asynchronously
  • Write Terraform code to scale the company's containers according to custom metrics
Must-have:
  • Strong experience in backend or full-stack development using Python and TypeScript
  • Experience with technologies such as Clickhouse, Postgres, Redis
  • Knowledge of the trade-offs of handling large amounts of data
  • Computer Science or Quantitative degree
  • You are a hard worker and thrive working in a small and accountable team
  • You want to take ownership in building out the infrastructure of a fast-growing devtool
  • You have been a core maintainer of a highly reliable and scaling infrastructure
  • You are excited about open-source software
  • You have impressive achievements from previous careers and from side projects
Nice-to-have:
  • You’ve started a company before or worked at a very early-stage startup
  • Experience with or interest in SDK design and DX
  • ML/AI experience
Benefits and conditions:
  • You will join the early core team and work closely with the founders
  • Working in Silicon Valley Startup in Berlin
  • Competitive salary and equity packages
Interview process:
  1. Intro call with Toughbyte
  2. Intro call with a Founder
  3. Get to know Product and Tech at a company with a Founder
  4. Technical Interview: Coding challenge and Systems Design
  5. On-site Super Day
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