Freelance Senior Backend Engineer (all genders)
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Requirements
- Strong, hands-on backend engineering in TypeScript and Node as your primary working language, building back-end services rather than build tooling
- Deep, practical AWS experience in a serverless-first setting using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and event streaming
- Ability to design API and data contracts and model a domain, including type-safe transforms at the boundaries between API, domain and persistence
- Real production ownership: instrumenting your own services, understanding their failure modes, changing live data safely and working incidents
- Coding agents as part of your daily workflow, checking their output before relying on it
- Self-sufficiency in an unfamiliar codebase, working within its grain rather than rewriting what you have not understood
- Working familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines, enough to ship and change your own service's delivery
- Python as a welcome secondary language
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🏠 Cost of Living in Berlin
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Strong savings potential: You could save €2,067 monthly, which is €24,804 per year.
💡 These estimates are based on average costs in Berlin. Actual expenses vary based on lifestyle, neighborhood, and personal choices. "Comfortable living" includes rent, utilities, groceries, transport, and reasonable dining/entertainment.
Eligible for the EU Blue Card
A salary of €79,122 meets the EU Blue Card minimum of €45,300 (2026).
The EU Blue Card is a residence permit for highly qualified non-EU workers. It offers a fast track to permanent residency and allows family reunification.
Also eligible: EU Blue Card (Shortage Occupation) (€41,042+)
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📍 Life in Berlin
About Berlin
- •Creative and tech hub
- •Diverse neighborhoods
- •Excellent public transport
Climate
- •Continental climate
- •Cold winters
- •Mild summers
- •Four distinct seasons
Safety
- •Generally safe
- •Higher petty crime than Munich
- •Some areas less safe at night
Healthcare
- •Good hospital network
- •Charité is world-renowned
- •Wait times can vary
Culture
- •World-class museums
- •Vibrant art scene
- •Rich history
Nightlife
- •Famous club scene
- •Diverse nightlife
- •24/7 culture
Recreation
- •Many parks
- •Lakes
- •Tiergarten
- •Active outdoor scene
Cost of Living
- •More affordable than Munich
- •Prices rising rapidly
- •Still cheaper than many European capitals
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