(Senior) Backend Engineer (f/m/d) – Fact Sheet API

Join us on our mission to operate and future-proof one of the core services behind the SAP LeanIX product! For almost ten years, this service serves the most important part of our customer’s data: fact sheets. It has already scaled up from a few dozen to more than 1000 customers and serves more than 150M calls every week.

As a (Senior) Backend Engineer you will contribute to operating, maintaining, and modernizing this core service as part of one of five product teams in the Inventory tribe. Your responsibilities will range from everyday tasks like monitoring our production systems and fixing bugs in existing functionality all the way to planning and realizing large refactoring and migrations, increasing stability, performance and scalability.

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?

• Work on a complex service written in Java and Kotlin that sits at the core of our product offering
• Monitoring this service with hundreds of requests per seconds; investigating, mitigating and fixing issues observed in production
• Continuous modernization of the service to be prepared for ever increasing usage
• A team of experienced engineers with a total of 75 years of industry experience
• A culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing and mutual support
• Iterative Scrumban workflow with two-week iterations
• Opportunities to take ownership and drive challenging topics forward from conception to implementation and finally monitoring and operation

WHAT IS OUR STACK?

• Java and Kotlin
• PostgreSQL
• GraphQL and REST APIs
• Event-based architecture
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Infrastructure based on Azure ecosystem
• Fully automated CI/CD pipeline on GitHub Actions with multiple deployments per day
• Gradual rollout of functionality using canary deployments and feature toggles
• Monitoring and Alerting with Azure Log Analytics and Dynatrace

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

You should apply if you like to:

• Continuously improve a sizeable existing codebase, as well as our engineering practices.
• Care about operating a service just as much as implementing it in the first place.
• Work on a product that is heavily used and well-liked by its customers.
• 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 you grow, be it through mentoring, pair programming, code reviews or knowledge sharing sessions.
• Frequently get out of your comfort zone: we grow at a fast pace and evolve frequently

Additionally:

• 2+ years of working experience – with more experience this can also be a senior engineer role
• Proficiency in working with Kotlin and Java or a similar language
• Experience with building and running scalable backend services is an advantage
• 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 office at least 20% of your time
• Please note, we only accept applications from candidates based in Germany