- Vienna, Austria
- With professional experience
- Permanent employment
- Full-time
- Remote
- Home office possible
At Ketryx, we’re on a mission to help medical software teams build secure, reliable applications that make a real difference in people’s lives. We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team. In this role, you’ll work on the backend of our platform, helping medical device companies get their products to market faster. You’ll take ownership of features from start to finish, designing the architecture, writing the code, and seeing everything through to production. Your work will have a direct impact on the future of healthcare technology.
This is a hybrid role in Vienna, with a minimum of three days per week spent on-site. We’re open to remote work for exceptional candidates.
Your tasks
- Database Design: Design and evolve PostgreSQL schemas, write efficient queries, apply indexing strategies, and help ensure the database remains performant and maintainable as the product grows.
- Backend Development: Build new integrations between the Ketryx platform and other systems, APIs, and workflows. Contribute to improving latency, throughput, and fault tolerance across the backend stack.
- Maintainable Systems: Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to standards around migrations, documentation, and testing. Help ensure the system remains easy to understand, debug, and extend.
- Operational Reliability: Participate in monitoring, debugging, and incident response. Help identify performance bottlenecks and reliability issues, and contribute fixes and improvements.
- Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Client Operations, Compliance, Security, and other engineers to deliver features that meet both business and regulatory requirements and resolve any technical challenges that come up.
Your profile
- 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, with strong experience in backend development
- Solid skills in TypeScript
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL: schema design, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning
- Solid understanding of backend performance and maintainability, including refactoring and technical debt management
- Comfortable collaborating across teams and participating in technical discussions and design reviews
- Comfortable working in English and collaborating across teams
Bonus Points:
- Experience with Prisma and Next.js
- Experience with GraphQL (urql or Apollo)
- Familiarity with AWS services like S3, RDS, and Elastic Beanstalk
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes in production or near-production environments
- Strong habits around testing (Jest, Cucumber, Playwright)
- Experience working in regulated industries like healthcare or finance
- Experience with Kotlin and Spring
- An interest in mentoring and helping others grow
Your benefits:
- Competitive compensation
- Performance-based bonus and stock options
- Free in-office: lunch, drinks, coffee, snacks
- Wiener Linien ticket
- Yearly company retreat
- Regular team events
- Generous PTO for full-time
- Opportunity to learn and grow as part of a global team
- Work in an exciting field with a positive impact on the world
For candidates in Austria with 3–5 years of experience, the gross annual salary starts at €70,000+. For candidates in Austria with more than 5 years of experience, the gross annual salary starts at €90,000+.
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