Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer m/f/x (Remote)
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Remote
Reporting To: Vadim Galaktionov
At simpleclub, our mission is to create a change in education. Millions of students use our platform every month, and we are building AI-native learning tools that help trainers and educators work smarter and faster: from LLM-powered lesson plan generation to automated assessments and actionable learner insights. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will own this work end-to-end and directly shape how AI transforms the way people teach and learn.
How will you make an impact:
- Own backend features for AI-powered educator tools: architecture, implementation, deployment, observability. The whole lifecycle is yours.
- Design and build data ingestion and transformation pipelines. Event sourcing, stream processing, aggregation layers for real-time and batch analytics.
- Build and evolve APIs that serve learning insights and AI-generated content. Fast, well-documented, easy to integrate with.
- Integrate LLM capabilities into the product: orchestration, structured output parsing, RAG, caching, cost control on model calls.
- Use agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, or similar) as part of your daily workflow. Delegate scaffolding, test generation, and first-pass implementations to AI agents. Review, refine, and own what comes out.
- Write specs, ADRs, and context docs that work for your teammates and your tooling. Good context engineering speeds up everything downstream.
- Ship features with Flutter engineers, PM, and designer. Short cycles, tight feedback loops.
- Find ways to automate repetitive engineering work with AI: CI checks, code review triage, doc generation, migration scripts.
What we value:
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7+ years of backend development on production systems. You've owned services, debugged incidents at scale, mentored engineers, and made architecture decisions you had to live with.
- Strong Node.js/TypeScript and GCP fundamentals (Firestore, BigQuery, Spanner, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub).
- Experience with both NoSQL and SQL databases You can reason about data modeling trade-offs, consistency guarantees, and query performance.
- You already use AI coding tools daily. Show us your workflow, your prompt patterns, and how you structure context for agents.
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Systems thinking. You think about failure modes, scalability, and data consistency up front.
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Clear, async-first communication. You write well, share context without being asked, and document decisions. We're a remote-first, multinational team. English is the working language.
Nice to have, but not a must:
- Experience putting LLMs into production: RAG pipelines, structured extraction, classification, prompt management, eval frameworks.
- Background in ed-tech, learning analytics, or content generation.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and stream processing at scale.
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipeline ownership.
- Experience in product trios or similar setups where engineers shape the product, not just build what's specced.
- Hands-on Spanner experience for globally consistent, horizontally scalable workloads.
What is in for you:
- Unlimited paid holidays
- Work from anywhere
- Team events
- A great culture
- Perk Budget
- Join a purposeful mission
đź’°Your salary: We đź’™ transparency. We have different levels within our salary bands, and we use these levels to determine a fair salary for each range. Your salary is reviewed at least once a year.
The salary band for this role in Germany is: 70.000 - 94.600 EUR annually gross. If you live outside of Germany, we will adapt to your local market.
We have implemented salary bands in all job descriptions to ensure we treat all employees fairly. Once we get to know each other better and understand your skills and experience during the interview process, we will be able to evaluate where you would fit within the salary band.
🌍simpleclub welcomes everyone. Yes, everyone:
At simpleclub we are devoted to building an environment that promotes equality, inclusion, and diversity. We are on the path towards expansion and with that, we believe everyone’s uniqueness should be celebrated and embraced. This is critical to our success and innovation. We want to build a product that is loved by everyone and we want the same to be reflected in our teams.
It is key to us that our employees bring themselves to work no matter what age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, color of your skin, beliefs, gender, or else.
With this in mind, we are working to ensure simpleclub remains a diverse and inclusive environment for everyone.
