Be our next roadsurfer!
We’re on a mission to create a seamless, magical experience for our customers—from the moment they dream of hitting the road to every adventure that follows. The roadsurfer app is our next big leap: a mobile companion that unifies everything we offer into one smooth, user-first journey.
To bring this vision to life, we’re expanding our engineering team and investing in the foundations that will support a truly mobile-first experience. As our Staff Backend Engineer in Seamless Experience product area, you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling this transformation. You’ll lead architectural initiatives - from unifying user authentication to reimagining our service boundaries - and empower engineers across the team to design sustainable, scalable systems.
We're looking for someone who brings both technical depth and a passion for uplifting teams—a thoughtful engineer who’s as excited about clear architecture and observability as they are about mentoring others and writing great technical docs.
Why roadsurfer?
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TEAM SPIRIT & TEAM EVENTS: Look forward to a collegial atmosphere with flat hierarchies, lots of fun and great team spirit, as well as regular team events such as joint sports sessions, pizza & beer evenings, etc.
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FLEX WORK & WORKATION: You are flexible in terms of working hours. Our Flex Work Policy enables you to work fully remote from Spain or Germany and work from abroad in Europe for one month per year
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: We support your personal and professional development through an individual Growth Plan and our Inhouse Academy
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CAMPER BUDGET: You get an annual camper budget to experience the #happyroadsurfing lifestyle for yourself
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JOB BIKE: Stay fit with our job bike offer
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DISCOUNTS: Use our Corporate Benefits Platform, the Travel Industry Card, and Family & Friends Discounts
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THE PLACE TO BE: Look forward to a beautiful, bright office with everything your heart desires, like table tennis and table football. You can also enjoy our weekly breakfast and lunch specials
The role - Your passion
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Architect and implement critical backend systems to power our new mobile app—including unified authentication and mobile-friendly APIs.
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Lead the technical strategy for customer facing products, potentially restructured service boundaries.
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Co-own our architecture reviews, helping to identify risks, shape service design, and define technical priorities.
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Drive continuous improvement in our development workflows—from tooling and CI/CD pipelines to engineering practices—optimizing for both delivery speed and product quality.
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Mentor engineers and support decentralized technical decision-making across the Seamless Experience stream.
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Collaborate with product, QA, design, DevOps and data to deliver customer impact while safeguarding backend health and performance.
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Contribute to a culture of blameless postmortems, thoughtful trade-offs, and sustainable progress
What you need to surf the wave with us
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Deep experience with PHP, Symfony, and backend system design.
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Proficiency in designing REST APIs and working with relational databases like MySQL.
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A strong foundation in clean code principles (SOLID, KISS) and a commitment to building well-tested, reliable software.
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Proven experience building authentication systems, API gateways, or scalable mobile-first backends.
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Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS is a plus.
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A strategic mindset and leadership experience—able to align technical decisions with long-term product goals.
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Proven experience writing clear, impactful technical documents that drive decisions and alignment.
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Knowledge of best practices in security.
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Bonus: you've worked in an environment that values architecture reviews, incident response, or observability as part of engineering maturity.
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Fluency in English and a collaborative mindset that thrives in agile, cross-functional teams
Ready to surf?
We are looking forward to your application! If you have any questions, please drop a message to our recruiting team via [email protected] and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
ABOUT #ROADSURFER
We are more than Europe's largest campervan rental company. In 2021 we launched our platform roadsurfer spots in addition to our other products rent, abo and sales – a platform where you can discover and book unique camping spots. But that’s only the beginning. We are growing fast, so hop on board and join us on our journey. The roadsurfer philosophy is simple: rent an RV, start your adventure, be happy. Come ride the wave with us!
Top Skills
What We Do
roadsurfer was founded in 2016 and is the world's leading expert in campervan travel with its colourful campervans for rental, subscription and sale as well as the roadsurfer spots platform. The roadsurfer campervan promise: Ready-to-go camping package, flexible cancellation or rebooking, unlimited free kilometres and always the latest campervan model.
The Munich-based company's core business - the hire and sale of campervans - is represented at over 70 locations in 14 European countries: Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, as well as England, Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland and in Sweden and Norway. In 2022, roadsurfer opens its first station in the USA, in Los Angeles. In 2024, the locations in Las Vegas and San Francisco will be added, as well as two stations in Canada: Vancouver and Calgary. In 2024, the camper expert will have a fleet of almost 8.500 campers worldwide, including VW, Mercedes Benz, Ford, Westfalia, Knaus and Bürstner. The company has developed into a digital lifestyle travel brand in the growing global outdoor travel market, not least thanks to the launch of roadsurfer spots.
Attention job seekers: If you want to start with us, you have to expect that our team is just as addictive as a road trip with our iconic campers. Surf the camper wave - we are curious about you!
