(Senior) Backend Engineer (f/m/d)

Our team mission, as one of five teams in our Inventory Tribe, is to deliver a unified, consistent filtering and search experience for users and services across SAP LeanIX.

As a Backend Engineer, you are not only an individual contributor, but also support your team with a strong customer-centric mindset and a drive to take on ownership over product capabilities and technical components. Two-week sprints based on Scrum help our team to self-organize and continuously improve the way we work.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ?

• Empowering Work Environment: We've invested heavily in creating an environment that fosters growth and provides open access to leadership, transparent communication, and opportunities for personal development.
• Complex Engineering Challenges: We're tackling hard engineering problems at a large scale, requiring creativity and strong engineering expertise.
• Empowered Product Teams: You're not just executing a roadmap; you're solving real problems. We value and reward outcomes, not just output.
• Ownership and Autonomy: We build it, we run it! We ensure our customers can rely on our features. This means we value resilience, automation, and proactive problem-solving.
• Continuous Improvement: We prioritize ongoing learning, collaboration, and sharing knowledge. We strive to continuously improve our products by validating and measuring user interactions.
• Work-Life Balance: We believe a well-rested and well-rounded individual makes the best engineer. We support remote or on-site work and offer flexible working hours to adapt your job to your life.

WHAT IS WAITING FOR YOU?

• Implementation of scalable and secure backend services in Kotlin/Java
• Design and implementation of state-of-the-art search related data structures and algorithms
• Design and implementation of state-of-the-art GraphQL APIs
• Taking over ownership and driving topics that you are passionate about and that contribute to our product vision
• Passionate colleagues who are looking forward to share knowledge (see our blog!) and learn from you
• Shape the way we work. You know a technology that will improve our daily work or our product? Bring it on!

WHAT IS OUR STACK?

• Backend JVM microservices with latest Kotlin
• Frontends built with latest Angular
• Infrastructure based on Azure ecosystem
• Kubernetes and Docker
• API technologies with GraphQL
• Databases and Search with Redis, PostgreSQL, Lucene
• Event-driven architecture
• Modern CI/CD toolchains with Github Actions, Feature Toggling
• Monitoring and Alerting with Azure, Instana
• Product Usage Tracking with Amplitude, Azure Log Analytics
• And many other tools

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

You should apply if you are someone who likes to:

• Collaborate with Product Management & UI/UX teams as part of a Product team.
• Be guided by engineering values: they aren’t just some pretty word on a blog post. We live by them and challenge ourselves with them.
• Share knowledge and make people around him/her grow through active mentorship, pair programming, code reviews or knowledge sharing sessions.
• Be in the driver seat by being proactive and taking ownership.
• Frequently get out of its comfort zone: we grow at a fast pace and evolve frequently.
• Do it right the first time: we believe quality iterative development brings velocity, not the other way around. We live by the value to produce outcome and not output.

Additionally:

• Standard role: 2+ years , Senior role: 4+ years of working experience.
• Proficiency in working with Kotlin and Java.
• Experience with building and running scalable backend services is advantageous.
• Practical experience in development and deployment of ML, AI based features is a plus
• Familiarity with modern tools and practices.
• Open communication style, strong spoken and written communication skills in English
• Ability and willingness to work on-site in our Bonn or Berlin office at least 20% of your time. Kindly note: We are only accepting applications from candidates based in Germany.