Applike Group is hiring a

Senior Backend Developer (f/m/d)

Hamburg, Germany
Full-Time
As a (Senior) Backend Developer you will join a team of highly committed developers, further developing our tracking platform justtrack by bringing in a lot of own ideas.

At justtrack, we build a SaaS business that provides app and game publishers an attractive toolset to handle their entire global marketing growth process. Starting from managing, analyzing and automating marketing processes, justtrack enables gathering deep mobile product insights.

As part of the applike Group (financially backed by media powerhouse Bertelsmann), justtrack has access to industry experts and funding with a long-term growth mindset.

Joining the Team, you will have the opportunity to create state of the art microservices from scratch. Moreover, you can dig into well established services that unify various external APIs and further refine according to all the small variants. You can explore our multifaceted tech stack, employing different languages for different jobs. Our team's mission is providing easy and efficient flows to automate and scale out marketing processes.

Key responsibilities:

  • You bring fresh ideas to further improve our robust and reliability-first Golang backend (separated over several, globally located data programming centers)
  • You help refine our data pipeline technologies: Spark, Airflow, Flink
  • Translate business and technical requirements into features and architecture improvements. As a senior, you can take a leading role designing and implementing new microservices and architecture overhauls
  • Collect and unify all the minor variants of APIs and user flows out there
  • Constantly improve our existing code and system architecture
  • Work with experts from different technological backgrounds and countries, learn from your highly experienced colleagues and share your knowledge
  • Collaborate with all kinds of roles in our cross-functional teams

How the optimal candidate may look like:

  • 4-5 years experience of backend or cloud software development. Mid level: 2+ years experience
  • Expert in one backend language: Go, Java, PHP, Python, NodeJS. Mid level: 1+ year(s)
  • Willingness to learn go
  • Good understanding of software architecture, distributed systems and application design 
  • Basic understanding of IaC tools like terraform
  • Team Player, Problem-Solver, Task Owner
  • Optional: Familiarity with frontend frameworks like React, Angular, Svelte
  • Optional: Experience with AWS services like DynamoDB, ECS, Kafka and SQS

What do we have to offer?

  • Work-Life Package: 2 remote days per week, 30 vacation days, 3 weeks per year of remote work, flexible working hours, dog-friendly kick-ass office in the center of the city.
  • Relocation Package: Visa & legal support, relocation bonus, reimbursement of German Classes costs, and more.
  • Happy Belly Package: Monthly company lunch, tons of free snacks and drinks, free breakfast & fresh delicious pastries every Monday
  • Physical & Mental Health Package: In-house gym with a personal trainer, various classes like Yoga with expert teachers & free of charge access to our EAP (Employee Assistance Program) to support your mental health and well-being
  • Activity Package: Regular team and company events, and hackathons.
  • Education Package: Opportunities to boost your professional development with courses and training directly connected to your career goals 
  • Wealth building: virtual stock options for all our regular employees

Skip writing cover letters. Tell us about your most passionate personal project, your desired salary and your earliest possible start date. We are looking forward to your application!

We welcome applications from people who will contribute to the diversity of our company.


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