Senior Backend Engineer

The Role

Join us in an exciting opportunity as a Senior Backend Engineer, where you will become an integral part of an extraordinary team of engineers dedicated to shaping the future of software at Ketryx. In this dynamic role, you will contribute to a small, highly motivated team, actively steering projects to successful completion. Your expertise will span merely on the backend of Ketryx's innovative technology as you collaborate seamlessly with fellow developers to implement cutting-edge features.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technological landscape, assuming ownership of critical technology decisions and roadmaps, with a strong emphasize on the backend, particularly in database optimization, caching, and processing asynchronous jobs. With a self-starting attitude and a robust hands-on mentality, you will be at the forefront of tackling complex problems, inspiring your team, and driving innovation. Embracing agile working models, you will foster ideation, envision future possibilities, and address detailed improvements concurrently, contributing to Ketryx's commitment to reinventing how medical device manufacturers bring life-saving innovations to market.

About You

The ideal candidate is someone who possesses a deep passion for software and a profound desire to contribute to enhancing patient treatments through technological innovation. Your innate inquisitiveness, coupled with an unwavering enthusiasm for challenging assumptions, sets you apart. With excellent communication skills in both spoken and written English, you thrive in collaborative environments, where the exchange of ideas is paramount.

As a self-starter, you relish the opportunity to excel in a fast-paced startup environment, taking ownership of technology decisions and roadmaps. Your commitment to driving innovation aligns seamlessly with the ethos of our team, making you an invaluable asset in shaping the future of software at Ketryx. You are driven by a genuine love for software, a desire to improve patient outcomes, and the excitement of navigating cutting-edge challenges.

You’re an EU citizen or have a working visa for Austria (unfortunately, we aren’t currently able to support non-EU citizens for this position).

Required Skills

• 7+ years of industry experience (or equivalent) with backend development
• Prior experience with TypeScript
• Prior experience with designing database schemas and performing efficient database queries (for example, Postgres)
• Prior experience with caching (for example, Redis)
• Prior experience with graph databases (for example, Neo4j)

Ideal Skills

• Prior experience with React
• Prior experience with large-scale data processing (for example, Apache Spark)
• Prior experience with Next.js and GraphQL
• Prior experience with AWS or other cloud technologies
• Prior experience with AI, particularly large language models
• Prior experience in a regulated industry

Compensation

For Austrian employees, we are offering an attractive compensation package well above the IT collectively agreed monthly minimum basic salary (IT-KV, with classification ST2/standard €4,346). The anticipated gross annual salary starts at €100,000 plus performance-based bonus and will be adjusted according to your qualifications and experience.