Kleinanzeigen reaches 36M+ monthly users and is Germany’s leading online classifieds market. We are a sustainability-focused platform where you won't just write code; you will power the services that bridge our high-traffic backend with seamless user experiences.
Joining the Edge team means working on the bedrock of Kleinanzeigen, dealing with high-throughput, low-latency and highly-efficient services that require a 'you build it, you run it' mindset, offering you deep exposure to modern infrastructure and platform architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Who You Are Architectural Mindset: You have proven experience building systems at scale (load balancing, service discovery, dynamic routing, circuit breakers). You understand not just how to build features, but how they perform under load.
- Owner’s Mentality: You seek out challenges, take the lead on troubleshooting complex production issues, and are proactive in proposing long-term technical solutions.
- Technical Mentor: You elevate the engineers around you through thoughtful code reviews, collaborative pair programming, and a commitment to sharing best practices.
- Effective Communicator: You can navigate trade-offs between speed and technical debt and explain your decisions clearly to the wider team.
- Tech Stack: You have strong experience in Java/Go, and you are comfortable balancing that deep backend work with frontend execution using React/TypeScript.
Requirements:
What You’ll Own
As a Backend-Heavy Full Stack Engineer, you’ll