(Senior) Backend Engineer (f/m/d)

At Ledgy, we’re on a mission to make Europe a powerhouse of entrepreneurship by building a modern, tech-driven equity management and financial reporting platform for private and public companies. In 2026, we aim to be the leading provider for European IPOs and reporting for share-based payments. We are a value-based company with a core focus on being humble, transparent, ambitious and impactful, all in order to delivery the best experience for our customers and end users. We are proud to partner with some of the world’s leading investors. New Enterprise Associates led our $22m Series B [https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/21/ledgy-a-carta-for-european-startups-to-manage-equity-and-cap-tables-raises-22m-from-nea-sequoia-and-more/] round in 2022, with Philip Chopin joining Sequoia’s Luciana Lixandru on our board. We were founded in Switzerland in 2017 and today we operate globally from offices in Zurich and London. We encourage diversity and are an international team coming from 26 different countries and speaking 25 different languages.   About the role As a Mid-level Software Engineer at Ledgy, you’ll build reliable, scalable product experiences that help companies manage their equity with confidence. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers, product managers, and designers to turn complex equity workflows into clear, automated, user-friendly software. This role is a strong fit if you’re ready to take ownership of well-scoped projects, grow your technical judgement, and contribute across the stack while learning from senior peers. Location: We hire remotely across the UK, Spain, Germany, Poland, and Romania. For candidates based in London, we use a hybrid model with 2 days in the office per week. Teams we are hiring for: * Core Equity — Owns the foundational logic that powers Ledgy’s equity engine. Every equity-related event — such as issuing shares, creating new pools, or adjusting ownership — generates transactions. This team defines and maintains the transaction logic, data model, and core domain behaviour that ensure Ledgy’s platform remains accurate, scalable, and compliant. They also enable employees to sell their shares seamlessly once vested. * Workflows & Automation — Focuses on automating complex equity workflows and integrating with third-party services, including the trading exchange. The team builds systems that help company admins efficiently onboard and offboard employees, automate equity grants and terminations. * Reporting — Transforms Ledgy’s core equity data into financial, operational, and compliance reports. The team manages large, complex datasets and ensures reporting is accurate, performant, and reliable across jurisdictions and company structures. Their work powers the insights companies and auditors rely on for decision-making and transparency. * Tax — Ensures taxes are correctly reflected throughout equity operations, especially moments such as exercising, selling, mobility, and other taxable events. As a future team, Tax will build end-to-end product capabilities across the stack, helping customers manage complex tax and compliance requirements accurately across jurisdictions. You will thrive in the role if you * You have 3+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer * You are comfortable building and shipping production-quality features across the stack * You enjoy learning complex domains and turning them into simple, maintainable product experiences * You care about clean, tested, readable code and thoughtful collaboration * You are curious about equity, financial workflows, and their real-world impact on companies and employees * You’re excited to grow your technical judgement through code reviews, pairing, and architecture discussions * You take ownership of your work while asking for input early when trade-offs are unclear Our Tech Stack*: We have a modern, cohesive stack that lets us move fast while maintaining quality: * Language: TypeScript * Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS, tRPC * Backend: tRPC, Node.js, MongoDB, Temporal * Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions *We don’t expect proficiency in this specific stack What Your Journey Could Look Like First 30 days: * Be paired with an onboarding buddy who will introduce you to the world of equity management * Get to know your engineering team, product managers, and designers * Learn how your team’s domain connects to the broader Ledgy platform * Set up your development environment and start contributing small, well-scoped changes * Build familiarity with our codebase, product workflows, and engineering practices First 3 months: * Ship product features and improvements with increasing independence * Work with teammates to break down problems, understand trade-offs, and deliver reliable solutions * Participate actively in code reviews and team discussions * Develop a deeper understanding of how companies manage and automate equity * Contribute to improving quality, maintainability, and user experience in your team’s domain First 6–12 months: * Own medium-sized features from implementation through release * Collaborate with Product and Design to shape pragmatic, user-centric solutions * Contribute to technical discussions around data models, workflows, and scalability * Continue growing toward senior-level ownership, judgement, and impact The interview process: * Getting to know you (45 min): Meet with someone from our people team to talk about your experience and to ask questions about the role * Live Coding (60 min): An equity domain problem to solve collaboratively using your preferred language and IDE. We want to see how you think, so this step does not allow AI. But you can freely look up syntax questions if you need to. * System Design (60 min): A system design session focused on practical problem-solving, clear trade-offs, and how you structure technical thinking * Case Study (60 min): Collaborate with a product manager and engineer to explore a problem related to Ledgy’s domain. Focus is on understanding requirements, product thinking, and implementation trade-offs. * Culture Interview: A chance to meet one of our founders and your hiring manager for a 30-minute chat about Ledgy’s mission and values * Offer 🎉 Being part of Ledgy means: * Recharge and re-energize with flexible working hours, 25 days of vacation, and up to 40 days of remote work from outside your home country. * We make space for your own professional development, with a generous yearly learning & development budget. * This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. All salaries are aligned with competitively benchmarked ranges based on work location and levelling. * For candidates based in London or Zurich we use a hybrid work model of 2 days in the office per week.

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Learn more at grafana.com [http://grafana.com] and follow us on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/] and X [https://twitter.com/grafana]. We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. SENIOR ML ENGINEER RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS, DEVELOPER ADVOCACY | GERMANY | REMOTE This is a fully remote position and we're considering candidates in Germany. The Opportunity: Grafana Labs is building an Interactive Learning system, an open source, in-product learning experience that helps users learn and succeed without leaving Grafana. A central part of that vision is a personalized recommendation system that helps each user discover the next guide, action, or product experience most likely to help them succeed. Today, the Interactive Learning tool includes a rule-based recommendation engine that provides useful contextual recommendations. We are hiring an ML Engineer to lead its evolution into an increasingly personalized, continuously improving system driven by real-time product behavior, content metadata, customer context, and experimentation. This is an applied product data science role. You will personally build, deploy, and operate recommendation models, design experiments, establish evaluation methodology, and define the scientific roadmap. You will partner closely with software engineers who own the production recommender codebase and with an existing Data Analyst who supports measurement, instrumentation, and analysis across Developer Advocacy. What You’ll Be Doing: The long-term vision is ambitious, but we do not expect it to arrive in one release. We are looking for someone who can understand the whole problem, establish strong foundations, and ship measurable improvements into the existing recommender one iteration at a time. * Evolve the Interactive Learning Plugin's recommendation system * Develop increasingly personalized approaches to candidate selection, ranking, sequencing, and next-best-action recommendations. * You’ll own a real-time recommendation service * Build and operate applied models * Develop, validate, version, monitor, and iterate on models used by the recommendation system. * You’ll own model training & serving * Define what recommendation quality means * Develop offline, online, and longitudinal measures of recommendation performance. * You’ll own feature pipelines, monitoring of the model and architecture * Ship incremental improvements * Use the data and infrastructure available today while identifying the instrumentation and platform capabilities needed tomorrow. * Integrate improvements into the existing recommender rather than waiting for a complete replacement system. * Partner across disciplines * Work closely with software engineers & data analysts to productionize models and integrate them safely into the recommender service. * Partner with the Product Analytics team on metric definitions, instrumentation, data quality, dashboards, and experiment analysis. * Collaborate with Developer Advocacy, Docs, Product, Engineering, GTM, and other teams to translate ambiguous needs into testable hypotheses and measurable product decisions. * Explain modeling choices, tradeoffs, uncertainty, and results clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. What Makes You a Great Fit: We know it is rare to find everything. Strong candidates should demonstrate credible ability across all three core areas below and be particularly strong in at least two. * Recommendation and personalization science: you have built recommendation, ranking, search, matching, propensity, or next-best-action systems.  You are comfortable beginning with simple, explainable approaches when they are the best way to learn. * HTTP/gRPC, streaming, Go/TypeScript previous experience in distributed systems * Applied model ownership.  You have personally built, validated, monitored, and iterated on models used in a product or operational environment. You can work effectively in version-controlled codebases and collaborate with engineers on production implementation. You should also be a strong product thinker and technical communicator. You can take an ambitious and ambiguous objective, identify the most important unknowns, and create a sequence of models and experiments that steadily improves the product. Bonus Points For: * Experience with content, education, onboarding, or learning recommendation systems * Experience with SaaS product telemetry and customer-account data * Experience using warehouse-scale behavioral data * Experience with directed graphs, sequence models, or prerequisite-aware recommendations * Experience with contextual bandits or other exploration strategies * Familiarity with Grafana or the broader observability ecosystem * Experience with open source software or transparent development practices * Experience working with privacy, fairness, explainability, or responsible personalization constraints Compensation & Rewards: In Germany, the base compensation range for this role is EUR 97,034 - EUR 116,441. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally. *Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process. Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs: * 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose. * Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment. * Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates. * Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things. * Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work. * Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics. * Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career. * Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human. * Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do. * In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.  * Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable. Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow. Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. 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