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# Senior Backend Engineer (Berlin)

- **Company:** GeneralMind
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Infrastructure, Python (Programming Language), Backend
- **Published:** September 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5885550617

## About the Role

* Experience: 6+ years building and operating backend systems in Python, with clear ownership of production services - not just feature delivery.
 * Python depth: Non-negotiable. You make deliberate choices about async vs. sync, framework selection, and performance tradeoffs. You know the language well enough to have opinions.
 * Temporal or equivalent: You've used Temporal (or a comparable workflow engine) in production. You understand durable execution, not just task queues.
 * Reliability instinct: Idempotency, retries, and observability are part of how you design, not afterthoughts.
 * End-to-end ownership: You're comfortable being the person who holds the full backend picture. You identify what's broken or missing before you're asked, and you don't leave the system worse than you found it.
 * A real spike: We're a strong team with broad coverage. What we're hiring for is someone who brings a 10x improvement in an area we're currently underinvested in. That might be workflow systems, data infrastructure, AI-native backend patterns, or deep domain expertise. We don't know exactly what shape it takes - but you should know what yours is, and be able to articulate why it matters.

## Description

* Detect regressions before they become incidents; build the tooling to catch them early.
 * Own the operational posture of the services you build: alerting, runbooks, on-call readiness.
 * Identify structural debt before it compounds; propose refactors that are thoughtful, not just correct.


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