Backend Engineer

📍Eindhoven (2 days in office) | 🗓️ 40hrs per week

🚀 This is what you tell people at parties

We didn't become Europe's leading e-commerce shipping platform by playing it safe. Sendcloud powers 30,000+ online retailers, marketplaces, and fulfillment companies. Helping them ship smarter, grow faster, and actually get shit done for their customers. Boring logistics? Not here. We're building the platform that solves shipping, at scale, globally!

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll be part of one of our 15+ cross-functional feature teams, working on the core systems that power Sendcloud. We integrate numerous carriers and online stores into a fast, intuitive platform used by merchants across Europe. We release early, release often, and automate everything we can—our codebase has high test coverage, our CI pipelines run continuously, and we're always looking to improve performance, reliability, and developer happiness.

- Shape the technical roadmap for impactful, multi-phase projects, delivering customer value iteratively and making sound technical decisions when requirements are open-ended.

- Scope, plan, and estimate large features and lead projects involving multiple engineers, managing complex technical and strategic trade-offs.

- Own what you build from code to production—respond with urgency to operational issues, balance delivery against technical debt, and keep systems reliable and scalable.

- Break complex problems and fuzzy requirements into well-designed, extensible components, and contribute to major architectural decisions and ADRs.

• Shape the technical direction of impactful, multi-phase projects and refine roadmaps as they progress, delivering measurable customer value.
• Lead large features and projects involving multiple engineers, managing ambiguous requirements and complex technical trade-offs.
• Own your systems from design through production—respond to operational issues with urgency, maintain reliability, and balance new delivery against technical debt.
• Design and implement distributed, event-driven systems with service-to-service APIs, ensuring patterns and practices that keep them reliable and maintainable.
• Mentor and upskill engineers on your team and beyond, driving documentation, knowledge sharing, and raising the technical bar.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, DevOps, QA, and other engineering teams, articulating technical risk clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Personally

Professionally

❤️ Our Values

💸 Salary - Starting from €80,000 annually, which includes an 8% holiday allowance.

🧠 Brain Benefits - €2,000 learning budget · Courses, certifications & conferences ·

Growth in an international team

🌴 Time Benefits - 28 days of paid vacations per year · Extra day off on your birthday ·

Swap public holidays for meaningful ones

✈️ Sabbatical Benefits - 4 weeks fully paid every 3 years

🏡 Home Benefits - Flexible hybrid model (2+ days/week in office) · €500 home office

budget

💪 Body Benefits - Company gym · Free lunch every Monday · Fresh fruit · Barista coffee

🪑 Future Benefits - Pension scheme · Employee discount programs

🐾 Vibe Benefits - Dog-friendly office · After-hours drinks at the Sendcloud Bar