Backend Engineer (TypeScript/Node.js) DevOps Mindset (m/w/d)
Glückliche Gäste
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About the role
Role overview
Backend Engineer with a strong DevOps mindset, building and operating backend services and technical components for FoodGenius. You’ll work at the development–operations interface, designing software that runs reliably in production and collaborating closely with Platform Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Develop backend services and technical components in TypeScript/Node.js
- Build production-near systems and service-oriented architectures
- Work on PostgreSQL, APIs, and integrations
- Containerize applications with Docker
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (via GitLab) and automate build/deployment processes
- Deploy and operate services in Kubernetes environments
- Support multiple target environments:
- Server and cloud environments
- Customer-facing edge systems (e.g., Raspberry Pi)
- Local development setups on macOS
- Help build and integrate AI-powered functions (use and integration of AI APIs; focus on integration/application, not mandatory model training)
- Collaborate with product, Platform Engineering, Head of Engineering, and Scrum Master
Requirements
- Several years of backend software development experience
- Strong knowledge of TypeScript and Node.js
- Confident working with Linux (development and runtime)
- Solid understanding of Docker and containerized applications
- Experience with Kubernetes for deployment and operating workloads
- Relational database experience, ideally PostgreSQL
- Experience with CI/CD, preferably GitLab
- Strong automation and operations mindset (“You build it, you run it”)
- Experience or interest in:
- Hosting/cloud environments (e.g., Hetzner)
- Edge/customer systems (e.g., Raspberry Pi)
- AI-enabled applications and technical integration
- Structured working style and willingness to understand systems deeply
- Very good German skills
Nice to have
- First exposure to AI model training or deeper ML concepts
Work setup
- 100% remote, hybrid, or on-site in St. Wendel (max flexibility at the work location level)
About Glückliche Gäste
Glückliche Gäste GmbH (FoodGenius Labs) develops backend and platform capabilities for products focused on making nutrition simpler and healthier. The organization operates multiple companies under one roof and delivers solutions spanning technology, tools, and knowledge for a sustainable, healthy society.
Scraped 4/10/2026