Backend Engineer

At PeopleIX, we believe that people are the heart of every organization’s success. We build the most intuitive platform to democratize people analytics for every organization, empowering modern HR teams to make informed, data-driven decisions. Our mission is to equip Chief People Officers with the tools they need to build high-performing organizations. Our platform provides a holistic view of the entire employee lifecycle, simplifying the process of data extraction, cleaning, and analysis. We reduce the manual workload, allowing HR teams to focus on strategic initiatives that drive business success.

Located in Cologne, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and professional growth. Join us at PeopleIX, where you’ll work with a passionate team dedicated to revolutionizing the HR tech space and making a tangible impact on organizations across Europe.

Tasks

As a Backend Engineer at peopleIX, your main responsibility will be to design, develop, and maintain a scalable data backend to enable our customers to ingest data into our platform from a wide range of HR, Finance and other business systems – in other words: you will be the mastermind behind the backbone of our powerful people analytics platform.

In this role, you will:

• Join our engineering team to develop the backend of our people analytics platform and shape the product in the early days
• Develop and maintain API integrations with third-party systems in a scalable manner
• Design and build a first-class approach to enable our customers to upload their data in any format in self-service
• Structure data in a unified model to enable analyses, benchmarking and potential AI use cases
• Contribute to our modern tech stack based on a serverless architecture running on AWS (Lambda, SQS, etc.) using TypeScript and/or Python
• Have a significant impact on defining our culture, team, and way of working as we keep growing
• Work closely with our CTO, Product, Data and other teams across peopleIX

Requirements

• M.Sc., B.Sc., or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Engineering, or another relevant technical field
• Motivated self-starter with a strong enthusiasm to learn
• Strong expertise in different languages, ideally TypeScript and/or Python
• Experience with API integrations at scale is a big plus
• Experience with serverless technologies (e.g. AWS Lambda) and/or event-driven architectures is a plus
• Experience with IaC is a plus

Benefits

• You will be able to personally and professionally grow with a young and striving company through challenging and diverse projects
• True startup atmosphere in a dynamic, innovative, and exciting work environment where your ideas will make an impact from the very beginning
• Flat hierarchies and a large amount of individual responsibility
• Beyond an individually negotiated compensation package including company shares, you will enjoy a unique combination of professional opportunities, entrepreneurial spirit, technological excellence, and industry exposure
• Regular team offsites and learning budget

Become part of our exceptional engineering team at peopleIX