Medior Backend Engineer

📍Eindhoven (1-2 days in office) | 🗓️ 40hrs per week

🚀 This is what you tell people at parties We didn't become Europe's leading e-commerce shipping platform by playing it safe. Sendcloud powers 30,000+ online retailers, marketplaces, and fulfillment companies. Helping them ship smarter, grow faster, and actually get shit done for their customers. Boring logistics? Not here. We're building the platform that solves shipping, at scale, globally!

🧐 The Role As a Medior Backend Engineer, you’ll be part of one of our 15+ cross-functional feature teams, working on the core systems that power Sendcloud. We integrate numerous carriers and online stores into a fast, intuitive platform used by merchants across Europe.

We release early, release often, and automate everything we can. Our codebase has high test coverage, our CI pipelines run continuously, and we’re always looking for ways to improve performance, reliability, and developer happiness.

🎯 What you'll do

• Impact & Direction: Contribute to your team's technical roadmap and short-term goals, breaking them down into concrete deliverables. Take steps toward independently owning a feature or problem space, using data and input from the right stakeholders.
• Delivery & Execution: Plan, estimate, and break down medium-sized features, cutting scope to ship on time. Deliver high-quality software that is well-tested, scalable, secure, and performant, and give constructive feedback in code reviews.
• Ownership & Reliability: Own the problems you work on and drive them to successful outcomes. Use our monitoring, error reporting, and metrics to spot and raise operational issues, and help keep our systems reliable and maintainable.
• System Design & Architecture: Contribute to system and code design within your team, decompose problems into well-structured components, and design simple solutions with an eye for maintainability.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Product, Design, DevOps, QA, and other engineering teams, share information proactively, and tailor your communication to the audience.
• Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Start mentoring more junior teammates, help others through code review and documentation, and share what you learn.

✅ What you bring to the table Professionally

• You have 3+ years of professional experience with Python and frameworks such as FastAPI or Django
• You have hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining REST APIs in production
• You can independently plan, estimate, break down and deliver medium-sized features from development through to production
• You understand how to build reliable and maintainable software, including testing, monitoring, error handling and debugging production issues
• You have experience working with distributed systems and understand the challenges that come with scalability, performance and reliability
• You can contribute to technical design discussions, evaluate trade-offs and turn requirements into simple, maintainable solutions
• You're comfortable working with Linux and the command line
• You have hands-on experience with Docker and at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure or GCP

Personally

• You take ownership of your work, follow problems through to resolution and ask for help when needed
• You think beyond making the code work, considering testing, observability, reliability, security and maintainability as part of delivery
• You communicate clearly, tailor your message to the audience and voice concerns constructively (fluent English, written and spoken)
• You're collaborative, give and ask for direct, empathetic feedback, and enjoy helping more junior teammates grow
• You're curious and pragmatic, open to experimenting and learning, and able to adapt when requirements or priorities change
• You take responsibility for your decisions and mistakes, learn from them, and use those lessons to improve how you work

❤️ Our Values

• 💩 No bullshit: Big egos suck. Be open, honest and transparent. Share your mistakes openly and learn from them. Don’t just talk about problems, solve them.
• 🎯 Grow & win: Be highly curious, adaptable & proactive. Embrace discomfort and change. Keep an open mindset and learn from others. You invest in our growth, so we invest in yours.
• 🎠 Have fun: Work hard, laugh harder. Not everything has to be serious. Be yourself, especially if you’re the good kind of crazy. Sendcloud is an adventure, not a corporate maze, enjoy the ride.

🎉 Benefits 💸 Salary

• Starting from €58k annually, which includes an 8% holiday allowance.

🧠 Brain Benefits

• €2,000 learning budget

• Courses, certifications & conferences

• Growth in an international team

🌴 Time Benefits

• 28 days of paid vacations per year

• Extra day off on your birthday

• Swap public holidays for meaningful ones

✈️ Sabbatical Benefits

• 4 weeks fully paid every 3 years

🏡 Home Benefits - Flexible hybrid model (1+ days/week in office)

• €500 home office budget

💪 Body Benefits

• Company gym

• Free lunch every Monday

• Fresh fruit

• Barista coffee

🚌 Travel Benefits

• Monthly commuting allowance

🪑 Future Benefits

• Pension scheme

• Employee discount programs

🐾 Vibe Benefits

• Dog-friendly office

• After-hours drinks at the Sendcloud Bar