Your Benefits:

• Join one of the most driven, innovative and well funded Startups growing to a Scaleup.
• Lead the design and evolution of one of the most innovative asynchronous processing systems.
• Join a team with the most excellent software developers around the globe.
• Work for a market leader.
• Work from several offices around the globe; or from home within EU.
• Startup pace, startup clarity: expect speed, rawness, and directness - and bring your best self to it.
• Build a first class software tool having worked with tools like Go, Python, Node, C++, JavaScript, Celery, Sidekiq, BullMQ, SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, Airflow, Temporal, Argo, Prometheurs, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.

Your Responsibilities:

You operate at the intersection of deep system design, hands-on implementation, and technical leadership to design fault-tolerant, observable, and cost-efficient systems that support distributed workloads:

• You architect pipelines that support retry strategies, dynamic task routing, prioritization, rate limiting, and idempotency at scale.
• You drive the design of scheduling systems for recurring or trigger-based workflows (cron, event-based, user-initiated).
• You build systems that support both real-time and batch data processing use cases with observability built in.
• You own end-to-end lifecycle of background workers, queues, schedulers, and task orchestration logic.
• You drive capacity planning, performance tuning, and operational efficiency (latency, throughput, infra cost).
• You build dashboards and alerting for job failures, stuck queues, throughput anomalies, and retry storms.
• You set the technical direction for how the ream processes, prioritizes, and schedules work internally.
• You mentor senior engineers and contribute to elevating engineering standards and architecture reviews.

Your Profile:

• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in cloud infrastructure software engineering.
• Minimum of 2 years of work experience at the same company within large-scale asynchronous workflow systems.
• Expert in queueing systems.
• Proficient in designing distributed schedulers.
• Know how to make asynchronous systems idempotent, traceable, and fault-tolerant.
• Understand retry strategies (exponential backoff, circuit breakers), deduplication, and concurrency control.
• Fluent in Golang and Python.
• Strong expertise in time-series monitoring, metrics, tracing, and log pipelines.
• Experience with multi-cloud deployment strategies.
• Built your own workflow engine, job scheduler, or orchestration system.
• First experience as a technical lead.
• Comfortable working in a low-hierarchy environment and eager to take ownership.
• Fluent in English.
• Thrive in a remote work setting.

Interested? Please apply via our homepage with your current CV to Nathalie. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out via email (nathalie@the-formula.de) or WhatsApp (+491752413757).

We celebrate diversity.

That’s why we explicitly welcome all applications - regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, ethnic or social background, nationality, religion or belief, physical or mental abilities, family status, appearance, or any other characteristic that must not be a factor under applicable law. We firmly believe that diverse perspectives, experiences, and life journeys enrich teams and lead to better decision-making.