1 day ago
Remote, Germany +9 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services that determine customer entitlements and usage costs.
- Own licensing, purchase, quota, and consumption data flows end to end.
- Evolve domain models for seat-based and usage-based commercial structures.
- Design integrations using idempotency, ordering, reconciliation, and eventual consistency.
- Plan and execute live data migrations using feature flags, dual writes, backfills, and staged verification.
- Define invariants, metrics, alerts, and other observability mechanisms to detect silent divergence.
- Design versioned, backward-compatible internal APIs for other engineering teams.
- Improve production performance and reliability while decommissioning legacy subsystems.
- Write integration tests against real dependencies and maintain test infrastructure.
- Investigate production incidents, identify root causes, and implement lasting fixes.
Requirements
- Proven experience building and operating backend services on the JVM using Kotlin or Java.
- Working knowledge of relational databases, including transactions, isolation levels, locking, indexing, and live schema migrations; PostgreSQL is preferred.
- Deep understanding of distributed-systems patterns such as idempotency, retries, eventual consistency, and data reconciliation.
- Practical experience performing live system changes and data migrations without downtime using feature flags and staged rollouts.
- Experience designing versioned, backward-compatible APIs for engineering teams.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers such as Kafka.
- Ability to diagnose, debug, and resolve production incidents in complex environments.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Strong focus on accuracy, production metrics, traces, logs, testing, and clear cross-team communication.
Benefits
- Flexible work location with work-from-home or office options.
- Up to 30 days per year working remotely from abroad.
- Additional time off.
- Medical insurance allowance for employees and families.
- Learning and development opportunities including conferences, courses, and language classes.
- Relocation support.
- Language classes.
- Hot meals or a lunch allowance on workdays.
- Mental health support.
- On-site gym or sports club stipend.
- Internal company events; benefits may vary by location.
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About JetBrains
JetBrains builds software development tools, best known for the IntelliJ IDEA family of IDEs (including PyCharm, CLion, Rider) and team products like TeamCity, YouTrack, and Space. It also created the Kotlin programming language, widely used for Android development. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Amsterdam, the privately held company sells commercial licenses and subscriptions to individual developers, teams, and enterprises.