Melotech
Backend Engineer
Berlin, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will own and manage data platforms, pipelines, and backend services. You will turn a fast-growing data platform into a reliable, documented, and simple system for the whole company.
What you will do
- Keep external data integrations reliable as sources and APIs change
- Own event-driven pipelines from orchestration to databases and warehouses
- Build monitoring and alerting to keep services and integrations healthy
- Work on production services and APIs including JavaScript backends
- Own CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud, access, and secrets
- Consolidate and document the system while removing what is no longer needed
- Explain data capabilities to non-technical colleagues
- Guide junior engineers as the team grows
Required qualifications
- 3 to 10 years of hands-on engineering experience
- Experience in small or fast-growing companies owning production systems
- Advanced Python including async code and long-running data jobs
- Backend experience to work on production services and APIs
- Basic JavaScript or TypeScript backends
- Experience keeping third party data integrations reliable in production
- Experience designing and running event-driven, fault-tolerant pipelines handling millions of records a day
- Experience with Airflow, Dagster or task queues
- Experience with databases such as Postgres, ClickHouse, MongoDB or Redshift
- Experience using Datadog or an equivalent for reliability
- Comfortable with Docker, Terraform, CI/CD and cloud
- Thrive in a fast-paced and performance-oriented environment
Nice to have
- Run an access review and set up role-based access and secrets management
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Equity
Before you apply
- Hiring is on a rolling basis
- Earliest starting date is ASAP
- Process includes an initial interview, case interview, and founder interview
About the company
Melotech is revolutionizing media and entertainment by creating art through technology. Founded by Soheil Mirpour, the company has raised more than $16M from various venture capital firms and angels.