Backend Engineer
- Role
- Backend
Open to ES only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Highly experienced Backend Engineer in Spain with strong Python and production backend/distributed systems experience. Needs English and Spanish fluency, async written communication, on-call readiness, and comfort using AI tools daily.
Core skills
Required languages
About Tinybird
At Tinybird, we help developers and data teams take flight by unlocking the power of real-time data to quickly build data pipelines and innovative data products. With Tinybird, you can effortlessly ingest multiple data sources at scale, query and shape it using the 100% pure SQL you already know and love, and publish results as low-latency, high-concurrency APIs for your applications to chirp about. Developers can create fast APIs, faster, what used to take hours and days now only takes minutes! Tinybird is the essential tool that data engineers and software developers have been waiting for enabling you to drive innovation with ease.
\n
About the Product team
The Product team owns and evolves everything that customers interact with in Tinybird.
We turn the underlying platform into a cohesive, reliable, and easy-to-use product. We design and implement the interfaces, APIs, and workflows that our users interact with. But our work touches many layers of the software stack and we often contribute code to ClickHouse directly.
These articles will give you an idea of the kind of work we do:
What we are looking for
We are looking for a highly experienced Backend Engineer who enjoys building and operating complex systems, and shaping how they are exposed as part of the product.
You might be a good fit if:
- You have strong experience building backend services, distributed systems, infrastructure components, or high-volume production systems.
- You are highly proficient in Python. This is a must for this role.
- You are comfortable working close to production: debugging incidents, understanding system behavior, improving observability, and making services more reliable.
- You care about performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational simplicity.
- You are pragmatic: you can move fast when needed, but you know when stability, safety, and maintainability matter more.
- You take ownership, follow through, and make progress even when things are not fully defined.
- You like data and SQL, and you are curious about how real-time analytical systems work.
- You communicate clearly in writing. This matters because we work asynchronously, document decisions, write operational notes, and share context across teams.
- You use AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or others as a core part of your daily workflow, from building and debugging to exploring ideas, understanding unfamiliar code, and reviewing changes. Using them effectively has a clear impact on how you work and how fast you can move.
- You are fluent in English and Spanish. English is the main language we use at Tinybird, and Spanish is the day-to-day language of the Product team.
- You are willing to participate in on-call rotations, not only to keep the service healthy, but also to understand the real problems our customers and internal teams face.
How we work
- We are a remote company, committed to a remote-first culture, but we have found that being together in person, especially in our Madrid office, often helps us move faster, stay aligned, and solve hard problems more effectively. Every now and then, we try to meet in person and spend time together.
- We believe in ownership, transparency, and clear communication.
- We value engineers who can balance speed with reliability, and short-term needs with long-term platform health.
- We prefer documented decisions, explicit ownership, and operational practices that make systems easier to understand and maintain.
- We work closely with platform, support, customer success, and other engineering teams because our work sits at the intersection of user experience, backend systems, and data.
- We have few mandatory meetings, under 2h/week. We know that deep work requires focus.
- Check out our blog or follow us on LinkedIn to learn more about what matters to us.
\n
€68,000 - €96,000 a year
This role includes both cash compensation and a stock options grant. You can find our typical starting salary ranges for this role listed above. The final offer within this range will take into account several factors, including candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business needs, and geographical location.
We also offer:
22 days of holiday a year (plus your birthday and public holidays).
Freedom to work from wherever suits you best.
We provide up to €2,800 to help you set up your home work space.
\n
The Process
Our process is designed for efficiency, and to get you an answer in a few weeks since the first meeting. These are its stages:
- First contact meeting, where you will meet the Hiring Manager of the process.
- Live Technical Assessment (1h, live, sharing screen, with 2 people from the team). You’ll have to optimize a piece of code representative of the work we do, and talk through your decisions.
- Team Alignment meeting (45min, with other 2 people from the team) to talk about technology and team work.
- A last meeting with our CEO to go over culture-fit, long-term company vision, and any other questions you might have.
- We make you an offer. And that's it!
What you'll do
- Build and operate complex systems.
- Shape how backend systems are exposed as part of the product.
- Design and implement interfaces, APIs, and workflows that users interact with.
- Contribute code to ClickHouse directly when needed.
- Participate in on-call rotations to keep the service healthy and understand real customer and internal team problems.
- Work closely with platform, support, customer success, and other engineering teams.
What they require
- Highly experienced Backend Engineer who enjoys building and operating complex systems, and shaping how they are exposed as part of the product.
- Strong experience building backend services, distributed systems, infrastructure components, or high-volume production systems.
- Highly proficient in Python. This is a must for this role.
- Comfortable working close to production: debugging incidents, understanding system behavior, improving observability, and making services more reliable.
- Care about performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational simplicity.
- Pragmatic: can move fast when needed, but knows when stability, safety, and maintainability matter more.
- Take ownership, follow through, and make progress even when things are not fully defined.
- Like data and SQL, and curious about how real-time analytical systems work.
- Communicate clearly in writing.
- Use AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or others as a core part of daily workflow, from building and debugging to exploring ideas, understanding unfamiliar code, and reviewing changes.
- Fluent in English and Spanish.
- Willing to participate in on-call rotations.
- Able to balance speed with reliability, and short-term needs with long-term platform health.
Benefits
- This role includes both cash compensation and a stock options grant.
- 22 days of holiday a year.
- Birthday off.
- Public holidays.
- Freedom to work from wherever suits you best.
- Up to €2,800 to help you set up your home work space.
- Remote-first culture.
- Few mandatory meetings, under 2h/week.
At Tinybird, we help developers and data teams take flight by unlocking the power of real-time data to quickly build data pipelines and innovative data products. With Tinybird, you can effortlessly ingest multiple data sources at scale, query and shape it using the 100% pure SQL you already know and love, and publish results as low-latency, high-concurrency APIs for your applications to chirp about.