Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) German Market
Location: Austria (Hybrid 1-3 days in the Vienna office)
Tech Stack: Golang REST APIs RabbitMQ GCP Kubernetes Docker PostgreSQL Terraform GitHub Actions.
Team Size: 7 Engineers
Salary: gross/year (All In)
Employment Type: Full-time Permanent
Why This Role Matters
At fiskaly were building the infrastructure for fiscal compliance across Europe and were scaling fast. Our Sign DE product powers fiscal receipt processing for the German market and youll play a critical role in its success. Youll help shape secure high-performance systems that power certified and uncertified components ensuring compliance while enabling scalability.
This is a role for engineers who want real impact ownership and the chance to solve complex problems creatively within meaningful regulatory frameworks.
What Youll Do
- Own the backend development of the Sign DE solution
- Translate legal and compliance requirements into scalable production-ready code
- Build and optimize APIs and backend services in Golang
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers to shape architecture and strategy
- Support and mentor junior team members
- Drive end-to-end delivery from feature planning to monitoring in production
- Communicate regularly with stakeholders including regulators
- Help create reusable solutions that can scale to other teams and markets
- Youll actively apply AI/ML tools (e.g. code generation anomaly detection test automation) to enhance software quality performance and efficiency
What You Bring
Must-Have Experience:
- 5 years in backend development
- 2 years working with Golang
- Youve applied AI to improve backend systemswhether through automated scaling anomaly detection or intelligent logging
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and distributed systems
- Familiarity with Docker and cloud platforms (GCP AWS or Azure)
- Experience with software architecture patterns and scalable backend design
- Proven ability to mentor junior developers and lead by example
- Full professional proficiency inEnglish
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience with GitOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge ofTerraform Ansible or similar IaC tools
- Familiarity withRabbitMQ Kubernetes or Google Cloud services
- Agile mindset (without being process-heavy)
- German (C1)
What Its Like to Work Here
Were looking for people who take ownership not just of code but of the product and team. Youll be part of a small international team (currently based in Vienna) working with high autonomy in a fluid collaborative culture.
This isnt a follow the spec job its a role for someone who sees problems brings ideas and drives change. Youll be a technical leader a partner to your PM and a trusted voice in the architecture of our German solutions.
Why Join fiskaly
At fiskaly youre not just filling a role youre helping shape how we scale solve real regulatory challenges and reimagine compliance across Europe. We offer a space where people have autonomy impact and room to grow.
Heres what you can expect:
- Real ownership work on products that matter with the freedom to shape how theyre built
- Growth-friendly culture we support trying failing learning and iterating fast
- 12 week onboarding in Vienna to meet your team and get fully ramped up
- Hybrid flexibility Work from where you do your best work
- Hardware of your choice Mac Linux Windows you decide
- Development budget and regular 1:1s to build your own career path
- Access to mental health support because well-being is part of performance
- Inclusive diverse and low-bureaucracy team youll be heard and youll make a difference
Still worried you dont tick every box Thats okay. If this sounds exciting apply anyway. We care about growth mindset and what you bring to the table.
Required Experience:
Senior IC