Hybrid Backend Engineer, Golang

at Equativ (formerly Smart)

• Job title: Backend Engineer, Golang
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, Redis, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• Backend Engineer joining core team in Berlin to build scalable real-time advertising systems. Focusing on Golang, impacting systems serving millions of viewers and requests per second.

Responsibilities

• You will join Equativ’s core engineering team in Berlin, where we design, build, and operate massively scalable real-time advertising systems.
• This is a pure backend engineering role with a strong focus on Golang.
• Your work will directly impact production systems that serve millions of viewers and requests per second on regular TV streaming and during high-profile live events, including the Soccer World Cup on Magenta TV.
• Software development is the central focus of this role.
• You will design and implement high-performance Golang services that operate under strict latency and throughput requirements.
• You will work on both functional product features and non-functional aspects such as performance optimization, scalability, and system stability.
• You will regularly analyze production behavior, improve algorithms based on real traffic patterns, and apply best-of-breed technologies where they make sense.
• You are expected to communicate clearly and proactively, participate in architectural discussions, contribute thoughtfully to code and merge reviews, and maintain high standards for clean, maintainable code.

Requirements

• You have at least two years of professional experience building backend systems in Golang
• You are comfortable working with key-value stores such as Aerospike or Redis and have experience using Kafka or similar data streaming platforms
• You understand the fundamentals of distributed systems and performance-critical backend architectures, and experience with high-throughput or real-time systems is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with video streaming technologies is welcome but not required
• You have operational experience with modern infrastructure and deployment tooling, including Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Helm

Benefits

• Hybrid work model with the option to work remotely up to 50 percent of the time
• Urban Sports Club membership
• Fully paid Deutschlandticket for public transportation, and access to a modern office in the heart of Berlin
• The team regularly organizes social events and hackathons, and we have a budget for conferences, courses, and professional development