or apply directly on Apaleo's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 82 days Apaleo's roles stay open a median of 71 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Apaleo's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Apaleo
- high 6 stale, 0 reposted of 7 open
- Hiring momentum
- 17 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-24
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Apaleo's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Apaleo.
About this role
As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Platform team at Apaleo, you will architect and develop scalable backend systems while taking ownership of large, cross-cutting initiatives from analysis to completion. You will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive technical excellence, all while working in a flexible environment that values autonomy and problem-solving. Your role will also involve building internal tools, maintaining operational excellence, and participating in on-call rotations.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Apaleo as an employer.
What you need
- 8+ years of backend development experience, including several years in a staff-level or technical leadership role
- Strong engineering fundamentals that transfer across languages and cloud platforms
- A track record of owning large technical initiatives from ambiguity through to completion
- Experience designing and scaling distributed systems in cloud-native environments
- Comfortable working with containerised services and infrastructure-as-code
- Confidence writing your own unit and integration tests
Nice to have
- Direct experience with C# (.NET), PostgreSQL, AWS and ECS/Kubernetes
- Experience setting up infrastructure-as-code from scratch and working with it day to day
- Experience with Kafka or other event-driven and streaming systems
- Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools and genuine interest in AI-driven engineering improvement
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
What you get
- Flexible and remote work options
- A fully covered Deutschland Ticket for free public transport across Germany
- Regular team dinners, company meetups, Oktoberfest celebrations, Christmas parties and other offsite events
- 30 days of paid holiday
- An EGYM Wellpass membership giving access to gyms and wellness options
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- The role requires a high level of autonomy and self-direction, which may not suit everyone
- The tech stack includes legacy elements like CloudFormation, which may require migration to Terraform
- The position involves on-call responsibilities, which can be demanding
Summarised from Apaleo's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Apaleo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.