Backend Software Engineer m/f/d in B2B SaaS AI Startup

We are traide AI 🤖, VC-backed, B2B startup that brings the power of AI to customs specialists and teams around the globe. We are looking for a skilled Backend Software Engineer to join our growing team.

As a backend engineer, you'll take ownership of our backend services while collaborating across the entire product lifecycle. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers in a cross-functional team to plan, build, and ship features that matter.

You excel at designing scalable architectures, translating complex requirements into clean, maintainable code, and striking the right balance between pragmatism, performance, and extensibility.

You strive to understand the bigger picture—our product, domain, and customers. You proactively propose solutions, driven by a passion for creating real customer value and measuring success through business impact. If you think in systems, enjoy challenging assumptions, and validate ideas through data and experimentation, you'll thrive here.

If this sounds like the kind of challenge you’re looking for, apply now—we’re excited to meet you.

Backend Development

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Python.
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code with a strong emphasis on type annotations and best practices.
• Develop robust RESTful APIs and ensure excellent API design and documentation.

Database Management

• Design efficient SQL database schemas and optimize queries for performance.
• Utilize NoSQL databases like Redis for caching and real-time data processing.

Cloud Services

• Deploy and manage applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Utilize cloud services to enhance application security, performance, and reliability.
• Implement logging solutions and configure monitoring tools to track system performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Improve our CI and delivery pipeline (Github actions and kubernetes)

Code Quality and Testing

• Ensure code quality and stability through unit testing, integration testing, and adherence to best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.

• You are an experienced software engineer (>= 5 years of experience)
• You are very familiar with Python and, ideally, also JavaScript/TypeScript
• Your strength are designing and improving scalable backend architectures, turn complex use cases into readable and maintainable business logic code
• You are familiar with ORMs (e.g. SQLAlchemy, Prisma) and you know how to build APIs (REST/GraphQL) that delight consumers
• You are interested in adjecent areas like Design, Product Managerment, DevOps and AI engineering
• You actively drive code quality and best practices in the codebase
• You thrive in in a fast moving environment with many opportunities to learn, grow and to give and receive feedback

✔️ A place where you can be your authentic self!

✔️ Startup culture with a passionate, international team and an inclusive community

✔️ A work culture with a lot of flexibility and individual responsibility based on trust and integrity, where everyone strives to grow & learn

✔️ Regular events during and around work like hackathons, drinks and team events

✔️ Flexible hybrid work policy with days together in the office but also a contigent of weeks where you can work fully remote

Does this sound like an interesting opportunity? Or do you bring other skills that you think would make a difference at traide AI? We would love to hear from you.

Our application process is short and consists of a screening call, a technical interview and an opportunity to get to know the team. We are looking forward to your application!