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Salary: EUR 58,000 - 0 / annual
SendCloud is Europe's leading e-commerce shipping platform, powering 30,000+ online retailers, marketplaces, and fulfillment companies. As a Medior Backend Engineer, you'll join one of 15+ cross-functional feature teams building core systems that integrate carriers and online stores into a fast, intuitive platform used across Europe.
You'll contribute to your team's technical roadmap and work toward independently owning features or problem spaces. Your responsibilities include planning and estimating medium-sized features, delivering high-quality, well-tested, scalable, and performant software, and providing constructive code review feedback. You'll own the problems you work on, use monitoring and metrics to spot operational issues, and help maintain system reliability. You'll contribute to system and code design within your team, decompose problems into well-structured components, and design maintainable solutions. Cross-functional collaboration is key—you'll work with Product, Design, DevOps, QA, and other engineering teams, sharing information proactively. You'll also start mentoring junior teammates and help others through code review and documentation.
SendCloud emphasizes high test coverage, continuous CI pipelines, and continuous improvement of performance, reliability, and developer happiness. The culture values transparency, curiosity, pragmatism, and learning from mistakes. You'll work a 40-hour week with 1–2 days in office in Eindhoven.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional experience with Python and frameworks such as FastAPI or Django
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining REST APIs in production
- Ability to independently plan, estimate, break down, and deliver medium-sized features from development through production
- Understanding of how to build reliable and maintainable software, including testing, monitoring, error handling, and debugging production issues
- Experience working with distributed systems and understanding scalability, performance, and reliability challenges
- Ability to contribute to technical design discussions, evaluate trade-offs, and turn requirements into simple, maintainable solutions
- Comfortable working with Linux and the command line
- Hands-on experience with Docker and at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Fluent English (written and spoken)
- Collaborative mindset with ability to give and receive direct, empathetic feedback
- Curious, pragmatic, and adaptable approach to work
