Senior Platform Engineer (Core Platform & Permissions) (dfm)
Senior Platform Engineer (Core Platform & Permissions) (dfm)
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About NEWWORK
NEWWORK is building the worlds first AI-native ERP platform: modular FLOW-orchestrated and people-centric. Our mission is to redefine ERP from rigid siloed systems of record to a dynamic System of Work that proactively assists automates and learns. With modules like HR MAP OrgChart Expenses and Finance we deliver a unified intelligent ERP ecosystem that runs enterprises in real time.
Tasks
Role Summary
As a Platform Engineer (Core Platform & Permissions) youll design build and operate the foundational services that power NEWWORKs AI-native ERP. You will own core backend systems our distributed AI-driven backbone the FLOW runtime multi-tenant identity & access control and the developer platform that enables rapid product delivery.
This position is for a Senior Platform Engineerwho will work remotely (within Germany or Romania) to craft and deliver on our enterprise SaaS core platform. Youll collaborate closely with Product Engineers AI Engineers and Security to turn business and AI requirements into reliable scalable platform capabilities. Strong backend skills are essential along with experience in distributed systems event-driven architectures and modern permission systems.
At NEWWORK we practice Vibe Engineering fast collaborative and AI-augmented product creation. That means rapid prototyping with Cursor and other tools coding together in flow sessions and co-innovating directly with customers.
Core Responsibilities
- Platform & Backend Engineering: Design and implement core services for our FLOW runtime orchestration and service-to-service communication in a multi-tenant SaaS environment.
- Event-Driven Architecture: Evolve our streaming and messaging backbone (topics contracts schemas) ensuring resiliency idempotency backpressure handling and observability (outbox saga/CQRS replay dead-lettering).
- Identity Access & Permissions: Build and operate fine-grained organization-aware permission systems (RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC) policy evaluation and enforcement across services and data layers; integrate with MAP OrgChart for contextual access.
- API & Data Contracts: Define versioned APIs (gRPC/REST) schema governance and compatibility guarantees; champion contract testing and documentation.
- Reliability & Scale: Set SLOs/SLIs capacity plans and autoscaling; engineer for high availability disaster recovery and graceful degradation across regions.
- Security by Design: Own authentication/authorization flows (OIDC/OAuth2/SSO) secrets/key management encryption in transit/at rest audit logs and compliance-ready controls.
- Developer Experience: Level up CI/CD (trunk-based progressive delivery canaries) ephemeral environments internal SDKs/CLIs/templates and paved roads that accelerate teams.
- Observability & Operations: Establish end-to-end tracing metrics and structured logs; lead incident response postmortems and continuous improvement.
- AI Enablement: Provide safe execution rails for agents (policy guardrails rate limits sandboxing auditability) and streaming interfaces that keep AI in the loop not in the way.
- Collaboration & Vibe: Work in short AI-assisted cycles; partner with lighthouse customers to validate platform capabilities in real-world scenarios.
Requirements
Your Profile
- Experienced Builder: You have a proven track record (approx. 58 years) of building software products preferably SaaS applications.
- Backend Depth: Several years building large-scale backend systems in a modern language (e.g. Java/Kotlin Go Rust or TypeScript) with strong fundamentals in concurrency transactions and performance.
- Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and stream processing; comfortable with delivery semantics exactly-once/at-least-once trade-offs and patterns like saga outbox and CQRS.
- Permissions Expertise: Practical experience designing/operating authorization systems (RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC) policy engines and graph-based permissions; you think in terms of principle-of-least-privilege and explainability.
- Cloud-Native: Proficiency with containers and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes) service meshes and infrastructure as code (e.g. Flux/Terraform).
- Data Systems: Familiarity with relational and NoSQL stores caching schema evolution and multi-tenant data isolation strategies.
- APIs & Contracts: You champion schema-first design compatibility and robust API lifecycle management (gRPC/REST OpenAPI/Protobuf).
- SRE Mindset: Comfortable defining SLOs building reliable releases and running on-call with effective incident management and blameless postmortems.
- Security Awareness: Solid understanding of AuthN/AuthZ OAuth2/OIDC SSO/SCIM and secure software supply chain practices.
- Vibe Engineering: Enthusiastic about AI-augmented workflows collaborative prototyping and fast feedback with customers.
- Nice to Have: Experience with ERP/business domains multi-region SaaS data residency compliance (e.g. audit trails) and AI runtime safety.
Benefits
What Youll Love About Working Here
- Cutting-Edge Tech Environment: Work with an advanced toolchain that few companies have from AI pair-programmers to automated devops. Wework fast and build smartby utilizing modern AI-powered workflows giving you a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of AI-assisted software development.
- Builders Paradise: Youll join a team of fellow builders. We operate with a flat hierarchy and empower engineers to make decisions. Have an idea for a new feature or an improvement You can run with it. We emphasize high agency and trust our engineers to drive projects.
- Mission & Impact: Our SaaS product helps enterprise clients streamline their business operations. By joining us youll solve meaningful problems at scale and see the direct impact of your work on important customers. This isnt just another app its a platform that reinvents how companies will operate.
- Remote-First Freedom: We areremote-firstby design work from home a co-working space or the city of your choice (as long as its in Germany/Romania). Theres no commute and you have flexibility in organizing your day around core business hours.
- Competitive Compensation & Perks: We offer a competitive salary stock options and a benefits package (including hardware of your choice education platforms budget for latest AI tools and work from anywhere). We believe in rewarding talent and effort. Plus youll be part of a growth journey as the company scales so can your role and career path.
Employment Type
Full Time
