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# Senior Backend Engineer - Energy Management Platform (all genders)

- **Company:** gridX GmbH
- **Location:** Aachen, Germany (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Code Review, Databases, Data Infrastructure, Software Design Documents, Distributed Systems, Protocol Buffers, Redis, Prometheus, Openapi, Datadog, Grafana, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Kubernetes, Vertica, Api Design
- **Published:** August 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.de/jobad/deb82951b3f7f58c02d7fab222459ec595

## About the Role

Deep backend engineering background with a proven track record of building, scaling, and operating reliable systems in production
Systems thinking with the ability to identify root causes, recognize architectural gaps, and solve underlying problems rather than patching symptoms
Strong autonomy with the ability to turn ambiguous problems into actionable plans and drive them through to completion with minimal guidance
Sound technical judgment with the ability to make pragmatic decisions while considering long-term trade-offs and implications
High ownership mindset with responsibility for taking work from the initial problem statement through production and ongoing operation
Focus on clear API design and documentation as first-class aspects of building maintainable and scalable systems
Experience with Go and its ecosystem, including building and operating production services
Experience with Kubernetes and operating containerized services in production environments
Experience with data infrastructure, including key-value stores such as Redis/Valkey and analytical databases such as ClickHouse or similar technologies
Experience with incident response and post-mortems, with a focus on learning from incidents and improving system reliability over time
Nice to have
Mentorship experience with a track record of helping engineers grow through code reviews, design guidance, pairing, and constructive feedback
Experience with energy management systems
Experience in platform/infrastructure engineering where your users are other engineering teams
Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana)
Protobuf and gRPC-gateway experience

## Description

* Own features end-to-end: Turn requirements into impactful solutions, taking them from analysis and implementation through testing, observability, and continuous iteration.
 * Solve problems, not just tickets: Identify technical challenges, shape pragmatic solutions, and drive them all the way from idea to production.
 * Keep systems reliable: Investigate and resolve complex issues across distributed systems, lead incident response, and turn post-mortems into meaningful improvements.
 * Build for scale: Continuously improve system stability, performance, and scalability as the fleet grows and complexity increases.
 * Create clarity: Maintain well-defined API specifications and clear component documentation that make systems easier to understand, use, and evolve.
 * Shape technical direction: Drive cross-team architectural decisions and help establish scalable, maintainable integration patterns.
 * Help others grow: Mentor teammates through thoughtful code reviews, pairing, design discussions, and guidance that builds confidence and autonomy.
 * Enable better decisions: Write clear design documents and RFCs that create alignment and enable effective async decision-making across teams.


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