Senior Engineer Backend
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm that invests from seed to growth stage (Series B to pre-IPO), backing founders with sector-specific expertise and a large network of operational support. It leads the majority of its initial investments and continues to support portfolio companies through multiple follow-on rounds as they scale.
About Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a pan-European venture capital investor with specialist investment teams organized around core sectors including AI & Infra, Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech & DeFi, Health & Bio, and Marketplaces & Consumer, alongside a dedicated Growth team writing checks from Series B to pre-IPO. The firm emphasizes leading with conviction and long-term capital from day one, leading 85% of its initial investments, participating in 100+ follow-on rounds each year, and backing 70+ Series A companies over the past four years. Speedinvest works with startup founders across Europe and beyond, providing not just capital but network access and growth support, and counts companies like Bitpanda, Moove, cylib, Tide, Gigs, Upvest, and GoStudent among its portfolio.
Skills
About the Role
You will design, build, run, and scale the services your team owns. You will develop event-driven microservices, expose and consume RESTful APIs, work with cloud-native delivery pipelines, and monitor production services. You will also partner with Product Owners to translate user, business, and regulatory needs into well-engineered solutions.
Requirements
- Experience building server-side applications.
- Knowledge of relevant programming languages and willingness to learn Java.
- Knowledge of a backend framework such as Spring or Spring Boot.
- Experience building microservices that expose and consume RESTful APIs.
- Experience engineering scalable and reliable cloud-native solutions.
- Understanding of CI/CD and practical Agile delivery.
- Ability to deliver secure, well-tested, and well-documented software.
- Experience integrating with third-party providers and partners.
- Ability to use AI tools and LLMs to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and delivery velocity.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, run, and scale team-owned services globally.
- Build services using Java 17, Spring Boot, and JOOQ.
- Expose and consume RESTful APIs.
- Send events using SNS, SQS, and Kafka.
- Use PostgreSQL via Aurora as the primary datastore.
- Deploy services to production through CI/CD pipelines.
- Use GitOps with ArgoCD.
- Monitor services and investigate issues using DataDog.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to translate user, business, and regulatory needs into solutions.
Benefits
- Share options.
- Generous annual leave in addition to bank holidays.
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Paid and unpaid sabbatical options after milestone years.
- Private family health insurance with OPD coverage and top-up options.
- Accidental and life insurance.
- Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops.
- Paid volunteering and personal-growth days.
- Annual learning and development budget.
- Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually.
- Home office setup contribution.
- Laptop ownership upon replacement.
- Office snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch, depending on location.
