Backend Engineer
Amboss
full-remotemidpermanentbackend Full remote 73 days ago via WTTJ
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GoRustPostgreSQLGraphQLEvent-driven architecturesStream processingAPI DesignData ModelingAWSObservability
About the role
Role overview
Join the ContentAPI Team as a Backend Engineer. You will build and operate the high-performance content delivery backbone that connects the CMS to client applications.
Key missions
- Build and extend APIs that provide structured content to web and mobile clients
- Work on data pipelines that process content events in real time
- Collaborate with your team to design solutions for unclear/ill-defined problems
- Improve system reliability and performance
- Contribute to internal developer tooling
Requirements
- Familiarity with at least one of:
- GraphQL
- Event-driven architectures
- Stream/batch processing
- Write clean, testable code with meaningful test coverage
- Strong fundamentals in:
- API design
- Data modeling
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
- 3–5 years of backend engineering experience in Go (or Rust)
- Curiosity about how systems work under the hood and continuous improvement mindset
- Ability to take a problem from ambiguity to a working solution with light guidance
Nice-to-haves
- Exposure to code generation, schema-driven development, or AST tooling
- Familiarity with AWS and containerized deployments
- Experience with observability: tracing, structured logging, and metrics
About Amboss
Amboss is a company that builds software products for delivering structured content to client applications. They operate content delivery and API infrastructure, including real-time data pipelines, connecting a CMS to web and mobile clients.
Scraped 5/13/2026