Backend Engineer, GenAI Platform

Amsterdam or Antwerp – As a Backend Engineer within the GenAI Platform team, you help build the foundation that enables AI products across DPG Media. You design and develop scalable backend solutions that support identity, access management and platform insights for a growing portfolio of AI services. Ready to make an impact on the future of AI at DPG Media? Read on!

What will you do?

As a Backend Engineer, you take ownership of the platform capabilities that enable teams across DPG Media to securely use and manage AI products. You build backend services that unify user, access, usage and cost data while making architectural decisions that support the platform's continued growth. Your work ensures that new products and teams can be onboarded efficiently and consistently. You do this by:

• Defining how users, roles and permissions are managed centrally and applied consistently across every product on the GenAI Platform.

• Building backend services that collect, combine and expose usage, cost and user data for the platform portal and reporting.

• Designing scalable platform architecture that continues to perform as the number of products grows.

• Defining how platform resources are described so new products and teams can be added through configuration instead of custom development.

Who are we?

We are a small team that builds and operates the GenAI Platform used across DPG Media. The platform runs on Kubernetes and provides teams throughout the organisation with access to AI products, ranging from workflow automation to model hosting.

What makes you the ideal candidate?

For this role, we are looking for an experienced backend engineer who combines strong technical expertise with ownership and a pragmatic mindset. You are proactive, analytical and enjoy building scalable platform solutions. In addition, you bring:

• Around 5 years of backend engineering experience, including designing systems yourself.

• Proficiency in at least one backend language. We work with Go, TypeScript and Python, and you are willing to work across these technologies.

• Experience integrating third-party APIs and combining data from multiple sources into one consistent view.

• Hands-on experience with OAuth2/OIDC, role-based access models and running services on Kubernetes.

• Experience adding metrics and alerts to the services you build.

Additional experience with Go, Kubernetes controllers or operators, declarative reconcile-based systems, usage metering, FinOps data, Terraform or GenAI systems is considered an advantage.

How do you work?

You take ownership of your work from design through delivery and beyond. You focus on delivering practical solutions first and continuously improve them. You proactively identify opportunities for improvement, clearly explain your reasoning and remain open to alternative perspectives. You think ahead when making design decisions and build with long-term scalability in mind.

Our stack

• Languages: Go for the platform control plane, TypeScript and Python for services and APIs.

• Platform: Kubernetes (EKS) on AWS, Terraform, Helm and ArgoCD.

• Observability: Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions.

At DPG Media, we are open to all talent in society. Regardless of your background, we invite you to apply for this position. It is precisely through the differences between colleagues that surprising insights and innovative solutions emerge. And that fits very well with us as an organisation. We are curious about who you are and what qualities and experience you bring. Want to know more about our inclusive working environment, click here!

What do we offer?

At DPG Media, you will work in an inspiring environment that is constantly evolving. You will collaborate with colleagues who think in possibilities and you will have every opportunity to continue developing yourself through your work and the DPG Academy.

• 💰 A competitive salary based on your work experience.

• 📝 A 36-hour work week in the Netherlands or a 38-hour work week in Belgium.

• 💰 8% holiday allowance and 4% personal choice budget.

• 💰 Annual profit sharing based on DPG Media's performance.

• 🎓 Opportunities to develop yourself both on the job and through the DPG Academy / DPG Campus.

• 🎉 The possibility to personalise your cultural public holidays.

• 🏢 Hybrid working, with office days agreed together with your team.

Even more reasons to join DPG Media

At DPG Media, we work for more than 90 leading news brands, magazines, television programmes, radio stations and online services such as Qmusic, NU.nl, Tweakers, Libelle, VTM and many more. Every month we reach more than 90% of people in the Netherlands and 8 out of 10 people in Flanders. We offer a professional working environment where freedom and personal development are highly valued. Through workshops and training, you are given every opportunity to invest in your future. Feel free to be an entrepreneur, a learner, a team player and, above all, yourself. Everyone is welcome at DPG Media.

Discover everything we have to offer. And while you're at it, you can also find us on Instagram, LinkedIn and X.

Applying, what's next?

Are you ready to get started? Apply directly. You will receive a response to your application within 10 working days and hear whether you have been selected for the first interview. The recruitment process consists of:

• HR screening.

• Interview with the Head of GenAI Platform.

• Technical interview with engineers from the team.

If you would like to know more, please contact Leonie via leonie.lugtenberg@dpgmedia.nl