Backend Engineer
Melotech · Remote · Berlin · New York · London ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote
- Python + JavaScript
- Data & Orchestration
- Equity included
- Fast hiring process
Join Melotech as a Backend Engineer focused on Data & Orchestration. You will take ownership of the systems that collect, move, and store data, turning a fast-growing setup into a reliable foundation for the entire company. This position bridges data pipelines and production backend services, requiring you to keep systems running, clean, and cost-effective.
What you'll do
- Maintain scrapers and integrations across flaky sources and changing APIs
- Own event-driven pipelines from orchestration to databases and warehouses
- Build monitoring and alerting for service health and data quality
- Develop production backend services and APIs using JavaScript
- Manage CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud security for data systems
- Consolidate existing tools into a documented and maintainable system
- Explain data capabilities to non-technical colleagues and guide juniors
What you'll need
- 3 to 10 years of engineering experience in small or fast-growing companies
- Advanced Python skills including async code and long-running jobs
- Experience with backend services and basic JavaScript or TypeScript
- Proven ability to handle scraping, proxies, rate limits and anti-bot measures
- Designing fault-tolerant pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or task queues
- Working with Postgres, ClickHouse, MongoDB or Redshift at scale
- Implementing data reliability checks for freshness, volume and schema
- Proficiency with Docker, Terraform, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure
- Experience setting up role-based access and secrets management
Nice to have
- Using LLMs to extract data from messy or unofficial sources
- Experience leading a small team or mentoring junior engineers
Stack
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Airflow
- Dagster
- Postgres
- ClickHouse
- MongoDB
- Redshift
- Datadog
- Docker
- Terraform
How you'll work
- Fully remote work policy
- Regular global offsites for team bonding and strategy
What you get
- Competitive salary
- Equity participation in the business
- Flat hierarchies with immediate impact
Hiring process
- 30-minute introductory call
- 90-minute case discussion and debate
- 90-minute interview with the CEO
- Offer, contract signing and onboarding