Medior Backend Engineer (Python)

This is a hybrid role in our Eindhoven HQ (1x per week at the office)

This is what you tell people at parties

“At Sendcloud, we build an all-in-one shipping solution that automates the entire shipping process for e-commerce businesses. With more than 25,000 customers across Europe, and soon beyond, we’re on a mission to become the leading global shipping solution.

We work in a high-performing environment where wins are celebrated, challenges push us forward, and impact is felt daily. Together with Sendcloud, I’m helping empower businesses with world-class shipping.”

What you will do in this role

As a Medior Backend Engineer, you’ll be part of one of our 15+ cross-functional feature teams, working on the core systems that power Sendcloud. We integrate numerous carriers and online stores into a fast, intuitive platform used by merchants across Europe.

We release early, release often, and automate everything we can. Our codebase has high test coverage, our CI pipelines run continuously, and we’re always looking for ways to improve performance, reliability, and developer happiness.

As part of the team, you will:

• Translate product requirements into actionable technical plans, milestones, and implementation steps

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, DevOps, QA, and other engineering teams to align on delivery

• Take responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of your team’s projects, from discovery to rollout

• Identify risks early, communicate them clearly, and keep the team aligned and unblocked

• Mentor teammates and help elevate delivery practices within the team

• Write clean, scalable, well-tested Python code

• Contribute to a distributed, event-driven architecture used by thousands of merchants

• Improve observability, performance, and reliability across our systems

• Own what you build, from code to production

Our perfect match

You have:

• At least 3 years of experience with Python and frameworks like FastAPI or Django (other Python frameworks are a plus)

• Hands-on experience building and working with REST APIs