[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Apaleo logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/08/6d684c9f-221.png)](https://jobicy.com/company/apaleo.md)[Apaleo](https://jobicy.com/company/apaleo.md) # Senior Backend Engineer, Platform (f/m/d) Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/apaleo.md)ShareRemote from[Germany](https://jobicy.com/job-region/germany.md)SalaryUndisclosedDepartment[DevOps & Infrastructure](https://jobicy.com/categories/admin.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished30 Oct 2026Apply before29 Nov 2026Listing views52Application actions3Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Apaleo is hiring a senior individual-contributor backend engineer for its Platform team, responsible for shared infrastructure, developer experience, security foundations and backend reliability. The role involves independently leading ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives such as database write scaling, CI/CD modernization, and CloudFormation-to-Terraform migration. Candidates need strong cloud-native distributed-systems experience, hands-on infrastructure ownership, and the ability to build and test production services without dedicated DevOps or QA handoffs. Core technologies include AWS, Terraform, Docker, observability tooling, and potentially C#/.NET, PostgreSQL, ECS or Kubernetes, and event-streaming systems. The position emphasizes technical judgment, end-to-end ownership, stakeholder alignment, and improving engineering practices through automation and AI tools. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 4/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 4/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior platform engineering role involving high-impact reliability, scalability, and infrastructure initiatives with little predefined process. Success requires independently resolving architectural ambiguity while coordinating technical decisions across engineering teams. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$155,000US market range (per year)$135k–$185k0$203.50k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. No employer salary is disclosed. Estimated US-market annual compensation for a senior backend/platform engineer with cloud infrastructure ownership is approximately $135,000–$185,000 USD, with an estimated midpoint of $155,000 USD; this is an AI estimate, not employer-provided compensation. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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How would you approach horizontal write scaling for a database-backed, high-availability service? I would first profile write patterns, contention points, consistency requirements, and growth forecasts. I would then evaluate approaches such as partitioning or sharding, workload separation, queue-based buffering, schema and index changes, and operational safeguards, validating the design through load tests and a phased migration plan. What is your approach to migrating infrastructure from CloudFormation to Terraform? I would inventory existing resources and dependencies, define Terraform module boundaries and state-management practices, and migrate incrementally to minimize production risk. I would use plan reviews, policy checks, import or replacement strategies where appropriate, and clear rollback procedures before transitioning ownership of each component. How do you design observability for a distributed backend platform? I start with critical user and system journeys, then define actionable service-level indicators and objectives. I instrument structured logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts that connect symptoms to likely causes, while ensuring alert thresholds are meaningful and operational runbooks support fast response. How do you maintain quality when there is no dedicated QA function? I make quality part of engineering delivery through layered unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests, plus automated checks in CI. I also use code and design reviews, progressive rollouts, monitoring, and post-release validation so defects are detected early and production risks are controlled. Opportunity details ## About this role. ### Join Apaleo and shape the future of hospitality tech Apaleo is the world’s most open, API-first property management platform, powering the next generation of hospitality operations. Our modular, AI-powered infrastructure lets hoteliers customise their tech stack, automate routine work and deliver seamless, personalised guest experiences, powered by best-in-class apps and autonomous AI agents that adapt to every stay. If you’re driven by the idea of making hospitality smarter, more human and powered by cutting-edge technology, we’d love to hear from you. About the role You’ll join our Platform team as an individual contributor, working directly with our Platform Lead, who sets Platform’s technical direction. Platform owns infrastructure, developer experience and security foundations for the whole engineering organisation. It’s a small team, so you’ll cover a wide surface area, with no dedicated DevOps or QA function to hand work to. This is a high-ownership seat. You’ll take on substantial, ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives, agree the direction with the Platform Lead, then drive them from first analysis through to completion with real autonomy over how you get there. We don’t run a groomed backlog or sprint planning. We assign a significant topic to someone who owns it end to end. If you thrive with structure handed to you, this isn’t the role. If you love spotting the problem worth solving and driving it yourself, you’ll fit right in. What you’ll be up to * Designing and building scalable, reliable and maintainable backend systems. * Spotting and scoping problems and initiatives yourself, not just picking up assigned tickets: weighing impact, priority and timing. * Contributing to architectural decisions and design discussions, and bringing other teams along. * Driving substantial, cross-cutting initiatives end to end, coordinating with stakeholders across engineering. * Building and maintaining internal tools and infrastructure (AWS, Terraform) that help teams deliver faster and more reliably. * Owning observability, logging and operational excellence to keep the platform highly available. * Sharing knowledge through code reviews, design reviews and pairing, and helping raise technical standards. * Spotting where AI and automation can improve how we build and run software. Some of the challenges waiting for you You’ll take ownership of one of these as your first initiative, with no other distractions. * Solving horizontal write-scaling for our database. * Modernising our CI/CD pipeline for faster, more reliable delivery. * Migrating our infrastructure-as-code fully from CloudFormation to Terraform. * Extracting and reworking common services to get us ready for our next scale level. What you’ll bring to the team * 5+ years of backend development experience, with a track record of owning significant technical work from ambiguity through to completion. * Substantial hands-on ownership of infrastructure, reliability or performance, ideally on a platform or infrastructure team rather than a pure product team. * Strong engineering fundamentals that transfer across languages and cloud platforms. We care more about how you think than which stack you’ve used. * Experience designing and scaling distributed systems in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred; strong Azure fundamentals and genuine enthusiasm for the switch work just as well). * Comfort with containerised services and infrastructure-as-code (Docker, Terraform; CloudFormation exposure is relevant given our current stack). * Confidence writing your own unit and integration tests, as we don’t have a dedicated QA function. * A project you can talk about in depth: the problem, what you did and the impact it had. * Fluent English. Nice to have * Direct experience with C# (.NET), PostgreSQL, AWS and ECS or Kubernetes: a great fit, though not a hard requirement if your fundamentals are strong. * Experience setting up infrastructure-as-code from scratch and working with it day to day, ideally with Terraform, including migrating or consolidating from other approaches (like CloudFormation). * Experience with Kafka or other event-driven and streaming systems (Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ or SQS are good transferable equivalents). * Experience owning observability and logging for highly available systems. * Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, ChatGPT, Amazon CodeWhisperer) and a genuine interest in AI-driven engineering improvement. * Experience mentoring other engineers, and introducing new technology, like AI tooling, to other teams. ### Culture & Growth What We Offer * An International Team: Work alongside colleagues from over 20 nationalities. * Growth and Development: 360° feedback reviews, an evolving career framework and an annual learning budget of €1,000+. * Autonomy and Ownership: Great ideas can come from anywhere. We trust you to make decisions and contribute directly. * Real Impact: Join a fast-growing scale-up transforming hospitality. From day one, your work drives real impact. * Fair Pay: Competitive salaries guided by benchmarking data, with recognition for performance and contribution. * Flexible Work: Work from home, the office or a hybrid mix. We focus on results, not clocking hours. * Time Off and Wellbeing: 30 days of vacation and an EGYM Wellpass membership. * Free Public Transport: A fully covered Deutschland Ticket for travel across Germany. * Team Connection: Regular team dinners, company meetups and offsite events. How you make an impact joining Apaleo: Joining Apaleo is more than taking on a role. It’s about driving real change in the hospitality industry. Your contributions will directly shape our innovative platform, influence company-wide decisions and help redefine the future of hospitality tech. At Apaleo, your voice matters, your ideas are valued and your impact is tangible. Be part of a team where your work fuels progress, collaboration sparks innovation and growth is a shared journey. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and welcoming workplace. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity or expression, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Your personal data will be handled with the utmost care and in compliance with GDPR and relevant data protection regulations. We celebrate differences and believe that diversity enriches our team and drives innovation. Show more [Apply now >](https://jobicy.com/jobs/157956-senior-backend-engineer-platform-f-m-d.md) > Annual salary information is not provided for this position. 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