Backend Engineer, Content-API (Go/React)

Backend Engineer

AMBOSS is a dynamic learning and clinical decision support tool committed to empowering medical professionals globally to deliver optimal care. Since our inception in 2012, we've harnessed cutting-edge technology to transform the way physicians acquire and apply scientific knowledge. Each AMBOSSian is passionate about being the champion of clinicians today - this motivates and unites us each day towards success. And what does success look like? When a clinician or med student tells us, "AMBOSS makes practicing medicine easier and enjoyable. I love what I do, and a big part is because of AMBOSS."

In our ContentAPI Team, we build and operate the high-performance content delivery backbone that connects our CMS to all client applications, ensuring content is delivered instantly, reliably, and at scale across web and mobile.

You will:

• Build and extend APIs that serve structured content to web and mobile clients
• Work on data pipelines that process real-time content events into a queryable state
• Contribute to internal developer tooling that generates code from schemas
• Improve the reliability and performance of a system serving production medical content
• Collaborate with your team to design solutions to loosely defined problems

You bring:

• 3-5 years of professional backend engineering experience in Go (or Rust)
• Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, and working with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Familiarity with at least one of: GraphQL, event-driven architectures, or stream/batch processing
• You write clean, testable code and care about meaningful test coverage
• You can take a problem from ambiguity to a working solution with light guidance
• Curiosity about how systems work under the hood and a desire to keep improving them

Nice-to-have:

• Exposure to code generation, schema-driven development, or AST tooling
• Experience with observability (tracing, structured logging, metrics)
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and containerized deployments

Benefits:

Rest & Time Off (30 paid vacation days, AMBOSS holiday, personal purpose day and more)

Food & Office Comfort (Daily healthy breakfast & lunch by in-house chef in Berlin HQ, AMBOSS daycare, work remotely from other office spaces in Cologne, Sardinia, Cape Town)

Health, Fitness & Mobility (Urban Sports Club -M plan-, Fitbit Versa 3, Deutschland Ticket…)

We believe that diversity is a powerful driver of innovation and progress. That's why we are committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and supportive environment where everyone—regardless of gender, age, ethnic or cultural background, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity—is valued and given equal opportunity to thrive. We warmly welcome people of all backgrounds to help us fulfil our mission: empowering all medical professionals to provide the best possible care.

Even if you don't meet every single point in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. We'd love to hear from you!