DevOps & Backend Engineer

Are you ready to build software that solves real-world challenges on the frontlines of innovation?

📍 Location: Hybrid / Remote | Giesbeek (Arnhem Area)

👤 Department: Engineering

⭐ Experience Level: Medior (4+ years of relevant experience)

📩 Reports to: Chief Science Officer, Peter den Hartog

🚀 The Opportunity: A role with Real Impact

At Antonie, we combine advanced AI with deep expertise in agriculture, soil health, and sustainability to create solutions that make a real difference. We are looking for a versatile DevOps & Backend Engineer who can bridge the gap between application development and infrastructure.

🔍 Your Key Responsibilities

· Design and manage resilient AWS infrastructure using Terraform

· Build and optimize high-performance backend services using FastAPI and MongoDB

· Manage containerized workloads and services on AWS EKS and ECS

· Design and implement continuous integration pipelines, testing infrastructure, and support

· Improve scalability, performance, observability, and security of infrastructure to support rapidly increasing demands

· Proactively monitor systems to identify issues and anomalies and opportunities for improvement

🧠 What You Bring

You are energetic, positive, and self-motivated. You thrive in a collaborative environment, embrace new ideas, and aren’t afraid of challenges. Above all, you take pride in your achievements and go the extra mile to deliver high-quality solutions.

• Communication: You communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, especially when documenting architectural decisions. You can translate complex infrastructure concepts into plain English
• Maintainability: You have a "leave it better than you found it" mindset when it comes to code quality and technical debt
• Problem Solving: You are able to debug complex issues across the entire stack
• Team Player: You enjoy pair programming, participating in architectural brainstorms, and giving and receiving thoughtful, constructive code reviews
• Cross-Functional Mindset: You are eager to sit down with our Data Scientists or our biologists to understand their bottlenecks while also helping fellow engineers optimize deployment pipelines

🎓 Education & Experience

• At least 4 years of experience with Python specifically with modern web asynchronous frameworks like FastAPI (or similar)
• Experience with testing frameworks such as Pytest
• Proficiency with MongoDB, including schema design and performance tuning
• Knowledge of MongoDB indexing strategies and aggregation pipelines for large datasets
• At least 5 years of experience with AWS (Compute, Networking, IAM). Specific experience with AWS Fargate and EKS is highly preferred
• At least 3 years of experience managing a Kubernetes cluster
• Strong knowledge of Git, GitHub, and Github Actions
• At least 3 years of experience with Terraform
• Having experience maintaining an MLFlow or similar product is a good plus

🌟 Why Join Antonie?

🚀 Career Growth

Join a fast-growing company where you can develop your skills, work on high-impact projects, and contribute to sustainable agriculture.

💰 Competitive Compensation

We offer a solid salary package, meaningful projects and a team that values innovation and collaboration.

🎁 What We Offer

· A challenging role with direct impact

· Of course: a competitive salary and 25 vacation days

· Plenty of opportunities for personal and professional growth

· Flexibility in your working hours and location

· A company laptop to support your work

· A monthly communication allowance and a work-from-home allowance

· A dynamic and engaged international team of 25+ colleagues

· A fantastic work environment based on our four Core Values: Drive our Dreams | Deliver the Best | Engage with Passion | Collaborate to Flourish

📬 Ready to Apply?

Are you excited to use your skills to make a difference? We’d love to hear from you! Send your resume and a short motivation letter to our People & Culture team: [email protected]

Want to learn more? Visit us at www.antonie.ai or follow us on LinkedIn