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Backend Engineer

LightCopenhagen, Denmark
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Building our core Smart Financial Platform further that helps multinational companies manage all of their accounting with AI and a great UX.

Keeping focus on customer needs while implementing robust and scalable technical solutions.

Developing and optimizing backend services, APIs, and infrastructure to support our high-performance frontend applications.


Your qualifications:

  • 4+ years of experience building robust backend systems with solid understanding of server-side architecture and API design.
  • Strong command of backend programming languages, with the ability to write clean, efficient code.
  • Proficiency in Kotlin / Java, JVM, PostgreSQL, AWS
  • Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and DB schemas that scale.
  • Deeply care about quality - you actively participate in code reviews, write comprehensive unit and integration tests, and thoroughly QA your work.
  • Great communicator who collaborates effectively with frontend engineers on API design and cross-functional teams on system architecture.
  • You can commit and ship production-ready code that is secure, scalable, performant, and maintains well.
  • Practical experience using AI or emerging technology tools to improve productivity, insight, or decision-making, with the ability to apply first-principles thinking to new problems.

Bonus points:

  • Experience with accounting or companies' finance flows (accounts payable, invoicing, payments etc).
  • Building AI-naitive robust and scalable applications.
  • You've been thriving in high-growth startups.

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Is the Backend Engineer position at Light remote?
Yes. This role was posted on Remote Frontend Jobs, a job board that lists exclusively fully remote positions.
When was this Backend Engineer job posted?
This listing was posted on February 3, 2026 and is still open for applications.
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