Software Engineer, Backend (Go) - All Genders

Own the Backend (Go). Doodle is a B2B SaaS platform used by millions of professionals to coordinate meetings and collaboration across teams and companies. We are building the future of scheduling and productivity. We work on hard problems at the meeting point of human collaboration and digital efficiency. We aren't just looking for someone to "write code." You are more than a coder. You are a proactive builder and a continuous learner. You thrive on shipping products that matter. You always find a way to reach the goal. Our core backend runs on a high performance, polyglot ecosystem of Go and Java services talking over Kafka. We value engineers who are curious and proactive. People ready to look beyond their primary language to read, trace, and understand workflows across the whole codebase. We love high velocity. We actively encourage our engineers to use LLM and agentic tools (Specs, Loops, and agentic workflows) to iterate fast and build systems. We stay provider agnostic (Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, local models, or self hosted models in the cloud). Use these tools to supercharge your iterations. We pair that speed with deep pride in ownership. A natural "READ THE CODE" mindset, where you keep a full understanding of, and full accountability for, every line you bring across the finish line. What You'll Actually Do Own the Backend: Design, build, and deploy robust, scalable, high performance services in Go that power our core platforms. Serve the APIs: Expose backend endpoints through GraphQL. Focus on efficient data fetching, query optimization, and clean integration with front end systems. See the Whole System: Keep full visibility across the backend. Understand how Go and Java services connect across our distributed infrastructure. Architect for Events: Build event driven solutions on Kafka for smooth data flow, system reactivity, and extreme reliability. Ship with AI: Use LLM and agentic tools to move fast, while keeping total ownership and full understanding of the generated code. Wrangle "Time": Tackle the fascinating logic of how Time is managed, processed, and presented across every global time zone. What do you bring? You'll thrive here if you are a builder who values customer impact as much as clean syntax. The Foundation: A Bachelor's in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equal practical experience. The Toolkit: Professional experience designing, building, and shipping production ready backend services in Go. The System Thinking: You can read, debug, and understand multi language codebases. You can trace logic through existing Java services. The Mindset: Hands on experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event driven architectures on Kafka. The APIs: Experience designing and serving APIs, ideally GraphQL. Nice to have: The AI Edge: Advanced use of modern AI assisted engineering tools to safely speed up backend testing, generation, and architecture validation. The Cloud: Experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. The Fundamentals: A strong base in data structures, algorithms, and distributed system design. The Location: You are based in Germany with full right to work. We cannot sponsor visas or support relocation at this time. Why Doodle? Real Impact: Your commits change how the world meets. Technical Stretch: We deal with "Time" problems most companies never meet. It is a masterclass in distributed logic. Modern Tooling: We give you the best AI and agentic tools, and we expect you to use them. Culture of Trust: We value curiosity, autonomy, and a balance that respects your time as much as our users'. Hiring Journey Initial Application Review Technical Interview (based on Home Assignment) Exec Interview HR Interview (BRYQ Assessment) Final Offer & Reference Check At Doodle, we're committed to providing an environment of mutual trust and respect, where equal employment opportunities (EEO) are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to age, race, color, disability, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. Diversity and inclusion are of utmost importance to us. We're committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work and our products will be. We want to hear from you, so please don't hesitate to apply! We look forward to receiving your full application. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that we can only consider your application if you are based and have the right to work in Germany. At this time, we are unable to sponsor a visa for this position or support with relocation.