Senior Backend Engineer, Xentral
API
Business management software
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Business management software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help small and medium-sized enterprises automate and simplify their day-to-day operations.
Role
Who you are
- You bring +5 years of experience as a backend engineer working on larger applications or platforms
- You have deep knowledge of PHP, ideally with modern frameworks like Laravel; Go experience is a plus
- You have deep knowledge of REST API design, authentication and security, JSON, OpenAPI and common API standards
- You’re experienced in handling legacy codebases and enjoy modernizing and improving them
- You have a strong architectural mindset and are comfortable advising teams on technical best practices
- You work independently, take ownership, and proactively drive solutions forward
- You’re a great communicator and thrive in cross-team collaboration
- You have high standards for code quality, reliability, and maintainability
- You speak fluent English; German is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll play a crucial role in evolving our API services — owning key architectural decisions, modernizing legacy systems, and supporting product teams with best practices for APIs, database design, and performance
- You’ll help ensure that our cloud-based platform, hosted on AWS, stays robust, reliable, and ready for the future
- You design, develop, and maintain core RESTful APIs using PHP (Laravel)
- You take ownership of architectural guidelines and support product teams on API design, implementation and performance optimization
- You actively drive the reduction of technical debt and the modernization of legacy components
- You collaborate closely with PMs (especially from the API team) and engineers across teams to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions
- You contribute to Xentral’s ever-evolving cloud platform, hosted in AWS, and stay open to working with API topics across teams
- You foster a culture of quality through code reviews, testing, and shared technical standards
- You ensure that reliability, scalability, and performance are at the core of every solution
Our take
With upwards of 2000 global companies relying on its services, Xentral is a leading lean enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for small and medium-sized businesses. Essentially, the company takes on the burden of daily repetitive tasks, freeing up time and space for its customers to grow.
Founded in Germany by a formidable husband-wife duo, Xentral has seen strong momentum as many businesses are turning to platforms like Amazon, eBay and Shopify to sell online, with Xentral’s services enabling companies to digitize and automate their back-end processes.
2021 series B funding, led by Tiger Global and Meritech, has been invested in enhancing the product. Capital has also been used to expand the U.K. operation toward a more global ERP market, a timely venture given its forecasted to be a market worth $71.3B by 2030.
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Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$75m
SERIES B
Jan 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $95m
Company benefits
- Well equipped for the mission - To make sure you can be on our journey with full power, we will equip you with a new MacBook, related equipment and use modern tools like Slack, GitHub, HubSpot and Asana. You are missing something – we are always open for new suggestions!
- Our secret fuel - There are no passengers on spaceship xentral – we are all crew. Even though we are physically separated, we enjoy our time together in projects, on coffee dates or virtual company parties very much. Relaxed and laid-back, yet focused and highly motivated. At xentral a healthy start-up culture is alive and well
- Even astronauts don’t stop learning - We love to challenge the status quo and that goes for ourselves too. That's why we offer you the opportunity to develop yourself further, whether on professional topics or interdisciplinary ones such as feedback training, communication or work organisation. If you have a specific training in mind, let us know
- Our coding universe - While for most people the universe consists of galaxies, stars and asteroids, our universe consists of PHP, AWS, Laravel, Symfony, Kubernetes, Docker and ArgoCD – just to name a few
- Choose your station - You decide where to launch your work day. Whether you want to work from home or from one of our hubs in Augsburg, Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich. Of course we will equip your home base
Company HQ
Bahnhofs-Bismarckviertel, Augsburg, Germany
Leadership
Benedikt Sauter
(Co-CEO, CPO & Co-founder)Previously co-founded and acted as CEO for both WaWision GmbH and embedded projects GmbH.
Claudia Sauter
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded WaWision GmbH and embedded projects GmbH.
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