Staff Engineer Backend & Architecture (all genders)
Core
Lead cross-team backend and service architecture, migrating a legacy monolith to a modular, API-first, event-driven architecture on Kafka.
Role type
Staff Backend & Architecture Engineer
Builds
Scalable, maintainable microservices and event-driven systems
Domain
Cloud-native backend engineering, distributed systems
Required skills
Cross-team technical leadership, monolith-to-microservices migration, event-driven architecture design, Kafka expertise, AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, AI tool adoption
Preferred skills
PHP/Symfony, TypeScript, fluent English, German
Technologies
Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, PHP, Symfony, TypeScript
Responsibilities
Design and document architectural decisions, coordinate cross-team alignment, communicate trade-offs to stakeholders, mentor engineers via pair programming and design reviews, manage AWS infrastructure and deployment pipelines, identify and integrate AI tools for productivity
Seniority
Staff, cross-team technical leadership
