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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** CodeGuild
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** €5,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Strategies of Testing, TypeScript, Backend, Kotlin
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.codeguild.nl/en/software-developer-jobs-netherlands/backend-engineer-amsterdam-1049531#apply

## About the Role

* 3 to 5 years of experience as a backend software engineer
 * Professional backend experience with TypeScript, or another strongly typed backend language such as Java, Kotlin or Go, and the willingness to work primarily in TypeScript
 * Experience with AWS or cloud-native environments
 * A completed technical BSc or MSc educationor demonstrated similar working level
 * Experience designing and building distributed systems
 * Experience owning and operating services in production
 * Strong understanding of backend fundamentals, testing and reliability
 * Comfortable working across the full software lifecycle
 * Strong communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego mindset

Nice to have, but not required:

 * Experience in payments, fintech or other correctness-critical domains
 * Experience with high-throughput or security-sensitive systems

## Description

As a Backend Engineer, you work on the core of the payment platform. You design, build and operate backend services that handle sensitive, high-volume financial data and need to behave correctly under all circumstances.

You own services end to end. From design and implementation to testing, deployment and operation in production. You work on distributed systems where failure handling, observability and data consistency are part of everyday engineering decisions.

TypeScript is the primary language, but the team is deliberately polyglot in mindset. Engineers come from JVM and Go backgrounds as well. What matters most is your understanding of backend fundamentals and your willingness to learn and take responsibility.

You collaborate closely with other backend engineers, infrastructure and product to continuously improve the platform. You receive frequent feedback and support from senior, principal and lead engineers who actively invest time in helping you grow, whether that is in system design, testing strategy or operating services at scale.


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