Senior Backend Engineer2026–present
Hybrid · Netherlands
Senior Backend Engineer at Polarsteps
Backend services
Distributed systems
Technical leadership
Distributed systems
Technical leadership
I’m a senior backend engineer at Polarsteps, based in the Netherlands. I design and build backend services and distributed systems, and I’ve worked as both an individual contributor and an engineering manager. I value pragmatic solutions, incremental delivery, and software that’s easy to operate.
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TL;DR
- 2012 → now
- From web and mobile applications to distributed backend services.
- Core work
- Backend services, distributed systems, and pragmatic architecture.
- Product domains
- Travel, payments, logistics, subscriptions, and lending.
- Roles
- Individual contributor, technical lead, and engineering manager.
- Company mix
- Startups, scale-ups, enterprises, and technology services.
- Project work
- Greenfield builds, product evolution, migrations, and platform reliability.
Experience
Senior Application Developer2025–2026
Hybrid · Netherlands
Engineering Manager2024–2025
Hybrid · Netherlands
Lead Engineer2023–2024
Hybrid · Netherlands
Senior Software Engineer2021–2023
Hybrid · Germany
Senior Software Engineer2020–2021
Remote · Lithuania
Principal Engineer2019–2020
On-site · Bangladesh
Engineering Manager2017–2019
On-site · Bangladesh
Software Specialist2014–2016
On-site · Bangladesh
Mobile / Web Application Developer2013–2014
On-site · Bangladesh
UI Developer2012–2013
On-site · Bangladesh
Web Application Developer2012–2012
On-site · Bangladesh
Toolkit
Languages
- Go
- Python
- PHP
- TypeScript
- Elixir
Application platforms
- FastAPI
- Laravel
- Symfony
- Phoenix Framework
- Node.js
Data infrastructure
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
Infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- GCP
- AWS
Observability
- Datadog
- Sentry
- Grafana
- Prometheus
Architecture
- Domain-driven Design
- Event-driven Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Hexagonal Architecture