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Backend Engineer (Golang)

AMBOSS

Responsibilities

  • Actively contributing to engineering projects within our Shop domain, from conception to completion.
  • Apply best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability, and help us improve them.
  • Use AI and agentic tools (like Claude Code) across the development lifecycle, from exploration and implementation to testing and code review.
  • Help implement the team's technical vision, and take part in the strategy conversations behind it. Understanding why a given technology choice matters, not just what it is.
  • Participate in incident resolution, get to root causes and build the preventative measures that stop a repeat.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine project requirements and specifications.
  • Address Ad-Hoc requests from customer support channels.
  • Share your knowledge within the AMBOSS community, contributing to a culture of continuous learning and growth.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of solid hands-on experience with

Golang

  • Solid experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code (or similar), and exposure to agentic engineering workflows.
  • Experience building and integrating APIs (GraphQL and/or RESTful) and working with relational database design.
  • Familiarity with SOLID principles, clean code, and common design patterns, and interest in applying them in day-to-day work.
  • Proficient in using Git for version control, including branching, merging, and code review processes.
  • Good to have experience with payment processing solutions like Stripe, Chargebee etc.
  • Good problem-solving and analytical skills, and the ambition to take on increasingly complex technical challenges.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills in English, able to explain technical concepts clearly to different stakeholders.
  • Good collaborative instinct to build real working relationships, help resolve team-level friction through clear communication, and step in when a teammate needs support.
  • Curiosity, being interested in optimizing processes, learning domain’s ins and outs.
  • Taking initiatives, having analytical mindset, being proactive and solution-oriented.
  • A sense of ownership and the drive to see topics through.

We work AI-first

agentic tools like Claude Code are part of our daily engineering workflow, and we are looking for someone excited to help shape how software gets built in this new era. Join our agile team on a mission to build and run the gateway that lets medical students and clinicians around the world access the AMBOSS platform

If you’d like to learn more about our unique culture, check out this video.

You bring

  • , plus MySQL or NoSQL.
  • Experience across the web development lifecycle, including coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance; exposure to requirements analysis and system design is a plus.

Benefits

AMBOSSians tell us that innovative work keeps them energized, and employee benefits help them to feel appreciated and empowered. We invest in every AMBOSSians with our employee benefits package, crafted to support financial, physical, and mental health and work-life harmony. Check out all of our employee benefits below:

https://go.amboss.com/the-amboss-prescription-de

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!