Staff Backend Engineer - Berlin

Oviva
Oviva

Software Engineering

Germany

Posted on Jun 23, 2026

At Oviva, the Direct-to-Patient (D2P) Growth team is dedicated to expanding our active patient base through strategic digital acquisition. Our primary challenge lies in converting interest from our advertising efforts into qualified leads—ensuring potential patients are eligible for our treatments and successfully navigating the complex administrative journey between healthcare providers and insurance companies to secure treatment access. We operate internationally across all Oviva markets, managing the unique complexities of various healthcare systems and a diverse product portfolio.

Our daily focus is on optimizing the user experience from initial ad exposure to lead conversion. We strive to make the journey across ads, landing pages, and lead funnels as frictionless and relevant as possible for our various audience segments, all while scaling our operations to support new countries and products.

Essential:

  • Expert-level proficiency in Java and related frameworks and libraries

  • Deep knowledge on middleware services & frameworks (such as relational databases, NoSQL databases, messaging systems, etc.) and nuanced understanding of their internals.

  • Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating complex, distributed systems at scale.

  • Mastery of architectural patterns, domain-driven design, and data modeling for complex systems.

  • Proven ability to influence and lead large, complex technical projects without formal authority.

  • Exceptional ability to navigate and resolve technical ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

  • Critical and data driven mindset in problem-solving and solution design

  • Active participation in technical guilds or communities of practices.

  • Proficiency with cloud-native architectures, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code principles.

Desirable:

  • Driven by a strong curiosity in AI and cutting-edge tech, you're hands-on, experimenting with AI-powered tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot)) to enhance productivity and code quality.

  • Experience in presenting at internal tech talks, external meetups, or conferences.

  • Extensive, proven track record of technical leadership and impact in a senior or staff-level engineering role.

  • Recognized as a go-to technical expert and thought leader by peers and leadership.

  • Contributions to open-source projects.

  • Experience in a regulated industry, such as healthcare.

  • Master in computer science or equivalent field

  • Lead the design, development, and evolution of large-scale systems or company initiatives, often across multiple teams.

  • Define the long-term technical roadmap and architectural vision for key areas of our platform, and articulate the return on investment (ROI) to engineering leaders and other departments.

  • Decompose complex business and system problems into clear, scalable, and elegant technical designs.

  • Act as a technical lead on cross-team projects, ensuring that architectural principles and quality standards are met.

  • Drive engineering excellence by identifying and resolving root problems while promoting best practices across the organization.

  • Mentor senior engineers, providing deep technical guidance and fostering their growth into future technical leaders.

  • Conduct technical interviews and assess the technical expertise of candidates during the recruitment process.

  • Represent engineering in cross-functional discussions

  • Drive innovation by prototyping and championing the adoption of new technologies and methodologies, including the strategic use of LLMs and AI-driven development practices.