Lead Software Engineer (f/m/d)

Job Description

With 14,500 employees worldwide and more than 60 years of experience, ALD Automotive | LeasePlan offers full-service leasing, flexible subscription services, fleet management and multi-mobility solutions for customers of all sizes, including large corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises, freelancers and private individuals. With our strong customer focus, we inspire our stakeholders and always act with foresight and sustainability. We benefit from extensive geographical coverage with a direct presence in 42 countries and a further 16 countries through commercial alliances, including our strategic alliance in North America with Wheels.

Start as Lead Software Engineer (f/m/d).

We're the Digital Unit at ALD, and we're all about transforming our company and the way we do business. Think of us as an in-house startup packed with Product Designers, Software Engineers, and Product Managers. Together, we're on a mission to redefine mobility.

• Trailblazers: We set the example to inspire change within our organization.
• Innovators: We challenge the usual ways every single day.
• Global Players: We create successful products for both local and international markets.

As part of our team, you'll: Collaborate with business experts, product managers, product designers, and fellow engineers. Get deep into our business to build the right products and integrate smoothly with other systems. Share your knowledge to help everyone level up. Use your ideas and skills to shape the future of mobility.

Your Mission

• Build Relevant Things: Design and implement cutting-edge products using the best tools and methods.
• Raise the Bar: Improve product quality and engineering efficiency with flexible, secure, and resilient solutions.
• Code for the Future: Write clean, understandable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Aim for Excellence: Deliver top-notch products and quality.
• Be a Visionary: Help shape what's next in mobility.

Your Profile

• Passionate Builder: Hands-on and excited about creating customer-focused software and products.
• Tech Savvy: Experienced with various technologies; you write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Lean and Agile Mindset: Comfortable with lean/agile methodologies in fast-paced settings.
• Great Communicator: Fluent in English and German, both written and spoken.
• Good Practice Lover: Enthusiastic about APIs, test-driven development, and consumer-driven contracts with REST or gRPC.
• Eternal Learner: Always curious and up-to-date with the latest tech trends.
• Team Player: Promote knowledge sharing, close collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Go-Getter: Outcome-driven, take ownership, and you get things done.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience weaving compliance and regulatory needs (like BaFin) into the product delivery process.
• Worked with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM) and know your way around containers and schedulers like Docker/gVisor, Kubernetes, or serverless.
• A knack for automation to cut down on waste where it makes sense.
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Technology Stack
We love using the right tools for the job, so our tech stack keeps evolving. Currently, we're into:

• Basics: Kotlin, Java, Golang, TypeScript, React, SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as event sourcing infrastructure (nats, kafka).
• Infrastructure & CI/CD: Containers, Kubernetes, GitOps (FluxCD), Azure Pipelines.
• Cloud Providers: Azure, AWS and IBM Cloud Private (compliance is key!).
• Workflow: Portfolio Kanban.

Your onboarding
... begins with our ‘Welcome Hour', where you will be welcomed by the management and HR together with all other new colleagues.

Your work & life balance
... is supported by our mobile working model. You have the opportunity to work partly from home as part of flexible working hours, but we are just as happy to see you in the office. Of course, you can count on 30 days for your holiday planning.

Your health
... is important to us – that's why we offer you comprehensive insurance benefits and resilience workshops to strengthen your physical and mental health.

Your mobility
... is supported by a travel allowance for public transport, attractive car hire conditions and other exciting mobility offers.

Our corporate culture
... is characterised by our joint actions. Constantly living our values – Authenticity, Collaboration, Curiosity and Commitment – is of great importance.

• An open feedback culture is an integral part of our everyday life, supported by our talent and performance management.
• We communicate transparently in monthly all-staff meetings and informal discussions in our ‘One Hour' with the management team, among other things.
• And of course we also celebrate together at summer parties, Christmas parties and are active together at sporting events.

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