Senior Backend Engineer (Platform Team)

Hey, I'm Niklas https://www.linkedin.com/in/niklashigi/, co-founder and lead of our Platform Engineering team at Kombo! I’m looking for an excellent backend engineer with high agency who gets excited about the hardest technical parts of scaling a product: performance bottlenecks, risky migrations, reliability, infrastructure, and the tooling that helps engineers operate all of it safely. This is a Berlin-based on-site role. WHAT WE ARE BUILDING We are building the infrastructure platform that HR tech products are built on, from emerging category leaders like Juicebox https://juicebox.ai/ to established players like Indeed.com http://Indeed.com. Because my three co-founders and I are engineers ourselves, we were always drawn to the deeply technical problems. That's how we ended up building infrastructure for HR tech providers. Concretely, we’ve built a unified API, a massive data synchronization engine, an observability platform, and an embedded integration setup/configuration UI. We offer this to other software companies so that they can provide prebuilt integrations with HR, ATS, LMS, and Payroll systems to their customers, instead of building and maintaining hundreds of integrations themselves. You can read more about our product here: What is the Kombo product? https://app.notion.com/p/What-is-the-Kombo-product-2fb6526d848a806793d1ccde34243879?pvs=21 We reached product-market fit about 1.5 years ago. Since then, both our revenue and product usage picked up with insane growth. Currently, we are at >10M annual recurring revenue, power integrations for more than 15,000 companies, and sync data of more than 250 million people globally. We are setting the standard for how companies build product on top of the most complicated enterprise systems. We’ve raised $30M of total funding to date and our growth rate puts us in the top 5% of VC funded startups worldwide. PLATFORM ENGINEERING AT KOMBO Most Engineering teams at Kombo are organized around the different product verticals we serve. The Platform team exists as a “horizontal” team that serves the needs of our Engineering org across the board. We work on shared technical problems whose impact cuts across our Product Engineering teams: scaling our infrastructure, finding and fixing bottlenecks in our application and databases, improving our CI and development workflows, and evolving how we handle on-call and incident response. This is not a traditional infrastructure or SRE role. We are looking for an excellent backend engineer who wants to work on the parts of our system where application code meets infrastructure: scalability bottlenecks, database performance, reliability, high-risk migrations, developer tooling, and production incidents. You will work across both backend code and infrastructure. Deep prior expertise in every part of our stack is not required, but strong software engineering fundamentals and genuine excitement about infrastructure-heavy problems are. Just some…