Freelance Backend Engineer
Berlin
Germany
Contract
Software Development
Exciting opportunity to join a leading ecommerce business as a remote engineer starting January 2025.
This is 12-month contract focusing on maintaining and improving scalable global systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Operating and improving APIs, system documentation, and availability.
- Monitoring system health, troubleshooting production issues, and making high-level technical decisions.
- Deploying services using GitHub Actions on AWS EKS clusters.
- Ensuring scalable, robust, and resilient tech solutions.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Proficiency in Golang and/or Java.
- Experience with AWS EKS management.
- Experience building and maintaining systems at scale (e.g., service discovery, load balancing, circuit breakers).
- Hands-on knowledge of best practices like version control, CI/CD, automation, and testing.
- DevOps experience is highly beneficial.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Lucy Leverett

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