Backend Engineer

Sensorfact is a German industrial technology company that provides smart monitoring solutions for manufacturing and industrial facilities. Its platform enables businesses to track and optimize energy consumption, machine performance, and resource usage across electricity, gas, compressed air, water, and temperature systems. By deploying easy-to-install sensors combined with intelligent software and personalized advisory services, Sensorfact helps industrial clients identify waste, prevent machine failures, and reduce operational costs. The company's mission is centered on driving sustainability and energy efficiency in industry. Sensorfact quantifies its environmental impact through the energy savings it enables for clients, reporting over 420 GWh of identified savings to date. Its offerings span predictive maintenance, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) monitoring, and leak detection, all designed to help manufacturers reduce their carbon footprint and improve resource efficiency at the machine level. Sensorfact serves more than 4,000 customers across 80 countries and employs over 300 staff. The company operates internationally under multiple language and regional versions of its platform, with its primary German-market headquarters in Berlin. Its combination of hardware simplicity, data-driven software, and hands-on consulting distinguishes it within the industrial IoT and green technology sector.

Ready to scale your career in a high-growth scale up where your results drive real world change?

We’re Sensorfact, Europe’s #1 smart monitoring platform for the industry, on a mission to make industry smarter, cleaner, and more efficient. Every day, our technology helps thousands of manufacturers cut energy waste, reduce costs, and lower carbon emissions through intelligent data insights and automation.

Today, we’ve joined forces with ABB, a global leader in electrification and automation. This partnership has propelled us onto the world stage, enabling us to expand rapidly and help more businesses optimize their energy efficiency, cut costs, and make a positive impact on the planet.

Apply today and help shape a smarter and more sustainable industry.

About the Role

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What you will do:

As a Backend Engineer, you'll be part of our Backend Engineering team, building the core services that power our platform. You'll work on scalable microservices, APIs, and data pipelines that transform raw sensor data into actionable insights for our customers. This role offers the opportunity to work across the full data lifecycle—from ingestion to delivery.

You'll design and develop scalable backend services and APIs, primarily using TypeScript/Node.js and Python. Your work will include building microservices that power our smart monitoring platform and working with GraphQL to expose data to frontend applications.

You'll collaborate closely with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features, contribute to architecture decisions, and help shape our engineering best practices. Code reviews and maintaining high-quality standards are a natural part of how we work together.

Our Tech Stack

We work with AWS cloud services (ECS/EKS, API Gateway, Lambda, Fargate), TypeScript/Node.js and Python, PostgreSQL and ClickHouse databases, Kafka for messaging, GraphQL APIs, and containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.

What you bring:

We're looking for someone with around 3+ years of backend engineering experience who enjoys building reliable, scalable systems.

You're comfortable working with TypeScript/Node.js or Python and have experience with cloud services, preferably AWS. You understand how microservices and distributed systems work, and you value sound engineering practices such as testing, CI/CD, and collaborative code reviews. Fluency in English helps you communicate effectively with our international team.

Proven experience collaborating with third-party stakeholders and communicating effectively throughout projects. Demonstrated track record in developing and/or integrating external APIs.

Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka, stream processing frameworks such as Flink, or time series databases like ClickHouse would be valuable in this role—but if you're excited to learn these, that counts too.

You don't need to check every box. If this role excites you and you bring relevant experience, we'd love to hear from you.

How We Work

We do Scrum with 2-week sprints and schedule most meetings in the mornings to preserve afternoon focus time. We work in a hybrid setup with regular office collaboration in Utrecht. You'll be part of multidisciplinary teams across Data, IoT, and Platform departments.

Why you will love working here:

• Grow your career as we scale

• Pension Contribution of 4% with an employer sponsored retirement plan

• Public transport allowance via NS business card

• Employee Referral Incentives up to €3,000 for a successful referral

• 27 Vacation Days to rest and recharge

• Remote Work Flexibility up to 2 months/year (with manager approval)

• Structured Onboarding & Mentorship support

• Social Events like Sensorfact Week & team dinners

• Office Perks like unlimited coffee, snacks, and free Friday lunch

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