Senior Backend and Data Engineer (m/f/d)

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Support our team remotely across Germany, preferably in Berlin, starting immediately in full-time as Senior Backend and Data Engineer (m/f/d).

• Take over responsibility for the BE development of a complex AI/NLP (Natural Language Processing) and data-driven education engine.

• Analyze the existing systems and develop concepts for a high-performance, service-oriented application landscape.

• You work with product owners, data scientists, UX experts and key users and enjoy contributing your own ideas.

• Design, build and maintain data transformations efficiently and reliably for different purposes (e.g., reporting, growth analysis, multi-dimensional analysis).

• Design, implement and maintain reliable, scalable, robust and extensible big data systems that support core products and business.

• Build backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.

• You have a lean start-up mentality and want to help us revolutionize the conventional education system.

• Strong understanding of backend technologies and you're proficient in one of the common-purpose programming languages, preferably Python, and relevant frameworks.

• Experience in AWS/GCP, understanding IaC principles. AWS CloudFormation is a plus.

• You're familiar with different database types (relational, key-value, document, NewSQL etc.) and understand their strengths and weaknesses.

• You're familiar with REST fundamentals and API design best practices.

• Experience with the Big Data technologies is a plus (Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Metastore, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink etc.).

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and building prototypes, MVPs, and final products.

• You embrace uncertainty and learning about users to adapt the solution or pivot.

• Fluent English especially in writing.

• Shape your career: Rapid growth opens up many new opportunities for you. Tell us about your dream career and we'll help you make it happen.

• Work from wherever you want …: Project management tools and video meetings make it possible: with IU, the boundaries between here and there blur. You want to work from abroad for a while? No problem thanks to our WorkFlex benefits.

• … and flexible time: It's your job: We trust you and give you the greatest possible freedom to organize yourself.

• You have the choice: You are free to choose your equipment, because everyone has its own preferences when it comes to hardware.

• Take your knowledge to a new level: Benefit from a 100% discount on tuition fees for an IU combined degree in the tech sector and many other free training courses. There is always something new to learn.

• Get a good rest: we push ourselves every day to go above and beyond. But we also take the time to recharge our batteries: with 30 days of annual vacation for all employees. Need some time off? What about a sabbatical?

Become part of our innovative Synthetic Teaching team at Germany's largest university! We develop solutions to further increase our efficiency and productivity – through automation, higher clocking, and better monitoring of our processes.

Sounds like the perfect job for you? Then apply now!

If you have any other questions, feel free to contact Lutz at Lutz.Behler@iu.org.

Words are followed by actions: We take our "Culture Of Everyone" very seriously and would like to take this opportunity to expressly point out that you are welcome to join us, regardless of your origin, religion, gender, age or sexual orientation. Even if you have a disability, our doors are wide open to you. We look forward to a diverse community here at IU!