Staff Backend Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer

Enmacc

Munich, Germany

YOUR MISSION

A Backend Technical Lead is a software engineer responsible for guiding the backend community and alignment of the technical direction. Providing a strong technical direction involves establishing a technical vision, resolving technical disagreements, ensuring the usage of appropriate engineering practices (such as CD or automated testing) and investing in continual improvements to tooling or technical debt to assure the platform meets changing needs and requirements. With a strong collaboration within the backend community, this role steers towards a common technical vision and is accountable for the quality of the technical deliverable of the respective team. This role has a strong focus on the technical aspects, or the “How”.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES/WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Take ownership of the backend technology stack and be a key contributor in the technical roadmap process
• Drive technical innovation, to grow scalability, security, and performance optimisations
• Take responsibility and lead larger technical projects that involve other communities like frontend, cloud or QA
• Cultivate technical excellence in the team by promoting best practices, being a mentor, observing the code quality and designing sound and reusable backend architectures
• Solve complex technical challenges to ensure robustness and performance of the platform while building elegant and future proof solutions
• Represent and guide the Backend Community to foster communication, collaboration, and efficient decision making processes
• Contribute to the product roadmap by owning the aspects of sound architecture and the technical approach

YOUR PROFILE/WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• Degree in computer science, completed training as an IT specialist or comparable knowledge from practical experience
• At least 8 years experience with backend software development
• Excellent knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, REST, Hibernate, AWS, SQL and Docker
• Advanced knowledge of designing event-driven systems, observability and concurrency control
• Advanced understanding of the backend technologies landscape and interest and passion to learn and experiment with new technologies
• Participation in architectural discussions in all stages, such as initial planning, implementation, as well as refactoring
• A “you build it, you run it”-mentality
• The ability to work autonomously and in a result-oriented way
• Proficiency in English (both written and spoken) is required.

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