Senior Backend Developer (Remote)

agriportance GmbH is a young, innovative, and sustainable company and the service platform for biomethane/bio-LNG. We support the necessary sustainability certification and broker biomethane from agricultural companies and customers from the energy sector.

Within our company, the number of new customers is increasing almost daily in Germany and throughout Europe. This growth course enables us to develop agriportance from a start-up to a scale-up. Now all we need is you!

What is possible with us? That’s up to you. You can play an active role in shaping our future together. We want to actively make something great possible. You too?

In this position you report to the Tech Lead.

Key Responsibilities

Backend Development

• Design, develop, and optimize high-quality backend services and APIs using Python (Flask).
• Architect and maintain RESTful APIs to ensure scalable and secure data interactions.
• Optimize and manage the PostgreSQL database, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of database operations.
• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

DevOps & Infrastructure Management

• Manage, deploy, and optimize applications using Azure Cloud Services, including App Service, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Blob Storage.
• Develop and manage Docker containers for the development, staging, and production environments.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments and ensure smooth application delivery.
• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure infrastructure and application health.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with the existing frontend developers, backend team, and UI/UX designer to deliver feature-rich, high-performance applications.
• Mentor and guide junior developers and work students, providing technical leadership and support.
• Participate in SCRUM meetings and collaborate with cross-functional teams using Jira for task tracking and agile development.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 3-6 years of experience in backend developments.
• Good experience in DevOps roles.
• Expertise in Python and Flask for developing RESTful web services.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with PostgreSQL
• Hands-on experience with Docker containerization and orchestration in cloud environments.
• Proficiency in Azure Cloud Services, including App Service, Azure Container Registry, and Blob Storage.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using modern tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with version control using GitHub.
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, especially within the Azure ecosystem.

Bonus Skills

• Familiarity with TypeScript and React.js to better collaborate with frontend developers.
• Experience in SCRUM or other agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of Cypress or other end-to-end testing frameworks for backend integration testing.
• Experience in API performance tuning and database optimization.

Salary: from 55,000 Euro gross per year (depending on qualifications)

What we offer

Financial benefits

• Health and pension provision
• Performance-related pay
• Company notebook, company mobile phone and headset
• No advance payment for expenses and immediate receipt of meals and mileage allowance
• corporate benefits – new discounts every month for various offers

Work-life-balance

• Location: Remote, Hybrid, or On-site
• 30 days annual leave
• Overtime compensation in your free time or payment of a certain number of overtime hours
• Dogs are welcome in the workplace

Career and development

• Training and development opportunities. Among other things, you will go through all the internal training courses that we have organised and also have the opportunity to attend training courses with external providers
• Competence development (e.g. foreign languages, cyber security, personality)
• Intensive induction and special onboarding processes and receipt of an employee handbook
• Flat hierarchies in an ambitious team with great growth and career potential

Commute to work and location

• Free car park
• Good transport links (bus and train)
• Central location

Social benefits

• Dynamic team and strong cohesion
• Open feedback culture
• Lunch together
• You culture
• Regular team events

Curious?

Then become part of the energy transition and apply by sending an email to bewerbung@agriportance.com, stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectations, or call Pauline directly with any questions about the formal process: +49 157 – 58496262. For the technical question you can write our tech lead Nikul: nikul.pandya@agriportance.com

Even if you don’t fulfil the requirements 100%, but you are enthusiastic about the job and motivated, please get in touch with us. It’s all about you, because we attach great importance to ensuring that our employees fit in with us and our company. So please convince us of you!

And what happens next? You can send us your documents via our application form, or you can send them to us by e-mail. After you apply, you will be tested in a test to see what skills you need. If the test results are good, you will be invited to a one-hour live pair programming session with our tech team. If the live coding goes well, you will meet in our office or remotely if possible.

And then you may soon be part of our team.