Lecturio is a leading international medical and nursing e-learning platform, serving students as well as educational institutions. Lecturio’s mission is to address the severe shortage of healthcare providers around the world through increasing access to quality medical education. Using state-of-the-art-technology and learning science, Lecturio has grown from its headquarters in Leipzig, Germany, where it was founded in 2008, to become a global leading digital teaching engine for health professions education.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be a technical leader within our engineering team, operating with a strong ownership mindset to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud systems. You will focus on enabling your team to deliver high-quality features effectively while ensuring our architecture remains robust, resilient, and maintainable. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers, Tech Leads, and fellow engineers to turn ambitious product visions into stable technical solutions.
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Technical Excellence: Design, implement, and operate scalable backend services and API architectures with high availability and low latency.
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Cross-Team Alignment: You will act as the technical glue between teams, ensuring that different groups are building systems that work well together and align with a unified technical vision.
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Solving Complex Problems: You will be the go-to experts for the hardest technical challenges within your domain. This often involves deep-diving into performance bottlenecks, resolving complex integration issues, or designing fault-tolerant systems.
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Mentorship & Uplift: You will mentor other senior and mid-level engineers, helping them grow. You are expected to elevate the entire organization's technical capabilities by setting high standards for code quality, testing, and design (e.g., leading design reviews, writing technical standards).
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Strategic Planning: You will work with product managers, the Chief Technology Officer and Tech Leads to help define the technical roadmap for a given area, identifying technical debt, and proposing new initiatives to meet future business goals.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of delivering robust backend systems.
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Broad technological knowledge.
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Experience in solving "messy" problems (ambiguous and complex challenges, often with no clear owner or solution).
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Excellent analytical and presenting skills.
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Ability to work with product and engineering leadership to identify ambiguous, high-level business problems and translate them into a concrete technical strategy.
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Extensive familiarity with AI coding agents.
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Experience with LLM integrations in a production environment - prompt management, evals, API integrations.
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Flexible working hours and remote work are a given to enable you to achieve a good work-life balance.
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You are part of a highly engaged, motivated, and professional Development team.
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Your ideas are heard: We value employees who drive change with creativity. Because only with a diverse team and fresh ideas can we make an impact!
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A comprehensive, structured HR and professional onboarding process with cross- departmental introductions and feedback sessions.
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Take advantage of our complete Lecturio training platform for free for your personal and professional development.
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Free access to coaching sessions and other mental health benefits.
Location: Remote (Time zones: UTC / UTC +1 / UTC -1 / UTC +2 / UTC -2)
Employment Type: Full-time
