Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d)

🌐 GlobalRemote

Posted Mar 11, 2026

 

Your Role

We are looking for a talented Backend Engineer with an interest in telecommunications and a passion for software development and big data technologies. You will be responsible for real-time processing of our data, enabling microservices and supporting the company to work in a fully data-driven environment. The position can be based in emnify’s office either in Berlin, or in Würzburg, or remote in Germany or Poland. 

Your Impact

  • Work within one of our service squad responsible for designing, building, testing, and running components or projects which drive the pricing & charging of emnify
  • Development of APIs and real-time data processing applications based on streaming technologies on the top of Apache Kafka ecosystem with a focus on scalability and reliability
  • Work with a team on core telecommunication functions like automated product lifecycle, in a modern cloud-based environment
  • Architecture and design of above-mentioned components to run on AWS in a scalable fashion
  • As a part of a team, you will be responsible for deploying and running these applications using CI/CD tooling like Jenkins, Terraform and monitoring solutions like Grafana, Prometheus etc

Your Skills

  • Experience of full-cycle engineering from POC to production with JVM based languages preferably Scala (large part of our code-base is in Scala). 
  • Demonstrable experience working with stream/data processing platforms like Kafka streams, Spark (Glue) and/or Flink.
  • You have designed at least one or more complex APIs and made major contributions into complex projects running in production.
  • Proven expertise in implementing and deploying solutions in cloud environments (with a preference for AWS), ideally using Infrastructure-as-a-code.
  • Experience working on relational databases.

Bonus Points

  • Interest in telecommunication, Internet of Things, network protocols and SDN
  • Happy to contribute to our components running on Node.js (Typescript).
  • Work experience in agile development teams
  • Having contributed to Open-Source projects (link to github/gitlab project)
  • Relevant AWS certification

About emnify

emnify is a global  IoT connectivity platform provider, enabling enterprises and OEMs to build, deploy, and operate connected products at scale across 180+ countries. Our cloud-native SuperNetwork powers mission-critical use cases in industries such as mobility, logistics, energy, and industrial IoT.
We are a Series-B scale-up with a strong growth trajectory and a clear focus on upmarket and enterprise customers. emnify’s technology and innovation have been recognized repeatedly by the industry, including:

  • eSIM Provider of the Year at the MVNOs World Awards 2025
  • Platinum Award for eSIM Management Platform Innovation by Juniper Research (2025)
  • IoT Innovator Award by Compass Intelligence for aviation connectivity
  • Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Germany, recognizing emnify as one of the country’s fastest-growing tech companies
As we move into the next phase of growth, AI plays a central role in our strategy—both in how we build our platform and in how our customers interact with it.

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