Senior Backend Engineer, Xentral
Data & AI Services
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Business management software
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Business management software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
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 have 3+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering or data engineering
- You bring a strong background in Golang and Python - and you’re excited about building scalable services in both
- You’re interested in infrastructure and architecture topics beyond writing code
- You enjoy working at the intersection of backend systems and data — from services to pipelines to AI tools
- You’re proactive, take ownership of your work, and bring a drive to push things forward
- You’re fluent in English; German is a plus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer who thrives in a cross-functional environment and wants to build scalable services, extend existing infrastructure, and help shape our AI platform
- This role combines hands-on development, architectural thinking, and long-term impact: from building services in Golang and integrating with our PHP-based core, to driving the development of our internal AI platform in Python
- You develop and maintain backend services and data pipelines using Golang, contributing to our evolving service architecture
- You tackle infrastructure topics related to scalability, performance, and deployment
- You collaborate closely with the Xentral Core (PHP) team — with the opportunity to deepen your PHP knowledge over time
- You take ownership of our internal AI platform in Python, supporting analytics and automation use cases
- You contribute to the development of our new Analytics platform, then transition into broader engineering initiatives
- You work cross-functionally with product, core backend, and data teams
Application process
- You have what it takes? Then apply now with your CV or LinkedIn profile
- We look forward to your application!
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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