Sr. Backend Software Engineer (Python) (m/w/x)
Grover, Berlin HQ
What you need
- 5+ years of backend engineering, with Python in production as your main language, with comfort working 90% on the backend and 10% on the frontend.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven systems (Kafka or similar) and PostgreSQL.
- Experience designing REST and/or GraphQL APIs and integrating third-party APIs.
- You have owned services in production: on-call, debugging across services, monitoring.
- You are comfortable with AWS, Docker and Kubernetes, and can work with Terraform.
- You like working with non-engineers, explain trade-offs simply and stay calm when priorities shift.
- Bonus: fintech, payments, lending, fraud or credit-risk experience; rule engines or ML in production; LLM tooling; Rust, Rails or Vue; German.
The Grover Way - How We Drive Success
- Own It: We take ownership seriously and define what success looks like. We drive shared ownership and don't wait - we drive. We keep one another accountable and take responsibility when issues arise.