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Our modular, AI-powered infrastructure lets hoteliers customise their tech stack, automate routine work and deliver seamless, personalised guest experiences, powered by best-in-class apps and autonomous AI agents that adapt to every stay.\nIf you’re driven by the idea of making hospitality smarter, more human and powered by cutting-edge technology, we’d love to hear from you.\nAbout the role\nYou’ll join our Platform team as an individual contributor, working directly with our Platform Lead, who sets Platform’s technical direction. Platform owns infrastructure, developer experience and security foundations for the whole engineering organisation. It’s a small team, so you’ll cover a wide surface area, with no dedicated DevOps or QA function to hand work to.\nThis is a high-ownership seat. You’ll take on substantial, ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives, agree the direction with the Platform Lead, then drive them from first analysis through to completion with real autonomy over how you get there.\nWe don’t run a groomed backlog or sprint planning. We assign a significant topic to someone who owns it end to end. If you thrive with structure handed to you, this isn’t the role. If you love spotting the problem worth solving and driving it yourself, you’ll fit right in.\nWhat you’ll be up to \nDesigning and building scalable, reliable and maintainable backend systems.\nSpotting and scoping problems and initiatives yourself, not just picking up assigned tickets: weighing impact, priority and timing.\nContributing to architectural decisions and design discussions, and bringing other teams along.\nDriving substantial, cross-cutting initiatives end to end, coordinating with stakeholders across engineering.\nBuilding and maintaining internal tools and infrastructure (AWS, Terraform) that help teams deliver faster and more reliably.\nOwning observability, logging and operational excellence to keep the platform highly available.\nSharing knowledge through code reviews, design reviews and pairing, and helping raise technical standards.\nSpotting where AI and automation can improve how we build and run software.\nSome of the challenges waiting for you \nYou’ll take ownership of one of these as your first initiative, with no other distractions.\nSolving horizontal write-scaling for our database.\nModernising our CI/CD pipeline for faster, more reliable delivery.\nMigrating our infrastructure-as-code fully from CloudFormation to Terraform.\nExtracting and reworking common services to get us ready for our next scale level.\nWhat you’ll bring to the team \n5+ years of backend development experience, with a track record of owning significant technical work from ambiguity through to completion.\nSubstantial hands-on ownership of infrastructure, reliability or performance, ideally on a platform or infrastructure team rather than a pure product team.\nStrong engineering fundamentals that transfer across languages and cloud platforms. We care more about how you think than which stack you’ve used.\nExperience designing and scaling distributed systems in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred; strong Azure fundamentals and genuine enthusiasm for the switch work just as well).\nComfort with containerised services and infrastructure-as-code (Docker, Terraform; CloudFormation exposure is relevant given our current stack).\nConfidence writing your own unit and integration tests, as we don’t have a dedicated QA function.\nA project you can talk about in depth: the problem, what you did and the impact it had.\nFluent English.\nNice to have \nDirect experience with C# (.NET), PostgreSQL, AWS and ECS or Kubernetes: a great fit, though not a hard requirement if your fundamentals are strong.\nExperience setting up infrastructure-as-code from scratch and working with it day to day, ideally with Terraform, including migrating or consolidating from other approaches (like CloudFormation).\nExperience with Kafka or other event-driven and streaming systems (Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ or SQS are good transferable equivalents).\nExperience owning observability and logging for highly available systems.\nHands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, ChatGPT, Amazon CodeWhisperer) and a genuine interest in AI-driven engineering improvement.\nExperience mentoring other engineers, and introducing new technology, like AI tooling, to other teams.\nCulture & Growth\nWhat We Offer \nAn International Team: Work alongside colleagues from over 20 nationalities. \nGrowth and Development: 360° feedback reviews, an evolving career framework and an annual learning budget of €1,000+. \nAutonomy and Ownership: Great ideas can come from anywhere. We trust you to make decisions and contribute directly. \nReal Impact: Join a fast-growing scale-up transforming hospitality. From day one, your work drives real impact. \nFair Pay: Competitive salaries guided by benchmarking data, with recognition for performance and contribution. \nFlexible Work: Work from home, the office or a hybrid mix. We focus on results, not clocking hours. \nTime Off and Wellbeing: 30 days of vacation and an EGYM Wellpass membership. \nFree Public Transport: A fully covered Deutschland Ticketfor travel across Germany. \nTeam Connection: Regular team dinners, company meetups and offsite events. \nHow you make an impact joining Apaleo: Joining Apaleo is more than taking on a role. It's about driving real change in the hospitality industry. Your contributions will directly shape our innovative platform, influence company-wide decisions and help redefine the future of hospitality tech. 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