Senior Software Engineer II (Python)

The Stepstone Group; Düsseldorf; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading recruitment technology company in Düsseldorf is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Marketplace Enablement department. This role involves leading a diverse team in deploying AI-based solutions and ensuring code quality practices. A strong candidate will have extensive experience in Python, AWS services, and real-time data processing technologies such as Apache Kafka. The company is committed to diversity and offers a hybrid working model with extensive benefits.

Leistungen

30 days of holidays + 2 extra days for Christmas and New Year's Eve

Hybrid working model

Company pension scheme

24 / 7 Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance Cover

Volunteering days

Job bike

Discounted parking or job ticket

In-house gym

In-house barista

Dog-friendly office

Qualifikationen

• 7+ years of professional level Python experience.
• 3+ years’ experience with AWS cloud services.
• 1+ years’ experience with Apache Kafka for real-time data.

Aufgaben

• Lead alignment with Product vision via solution design.
• Champion code quality applying best practices.
• Collaborate and mentor in an international, agile team.

Kenntnisse

Python

AWS cloud services

Apache Kafka

Data and AI problem-solving

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Huggingface Transformers

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer and AI Enthusiast, you will join the Marketplace Enablement department. In this team we’re enabling AI-based searching, matching, and ranking of talent to job ads. You will join an international team of Data Scientists, Big Data Engineers, ML Engineers, and Cloud Engineers as a technical lead.

Your expertise will help create a more inclusive and efficient recruitment experience globally, directly supporting our mission to reshape the labour market for everyone. You will have a strong sense of ownership and proactively provide solutions before a situation deteriorates.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead from alignment with Product vision via solution design with our Staff Engineers to successful implementation and value creation.
• Champion code quality by applying best practices like clean code, automated testing, CI / CD, observability, security, and Federated Governance.
• Work on a diverse set of technologies for LLM-deployments (e.g. Sagemaker with vLLM), streaming data solutions (Kafka), Data Lakes (AWS Glue) and complex orchestrations (Airflow) tasks.
• Collaborate and mentor in an international, agile, cross-functional team, helping others grow and succeed.
• Contribute to building an inclusive team culture where every voice is valued.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of deploying secure and robust systems at scale with a professional level of Python (7+ years)
• Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English (B2+ level).
• Genuine passion for leveraging data and AI to solve complex problems and make a tangible impact (professional experience is considered a plus).
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services (e.g., EMR, Glue, ECS with Docker, Redshift, DynamoDB, S3) and understanding of cloud-native architectures (3+ years).
• Solid experience with Apache Kafka (MSK) for real-time data ingestion and processing (1+ years).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and Huggingface Transformers (considered a plus).
• We value different career paths — if you have taken career breaks, switched disciplines, or balanced work with family life, we still encourage you to apply.

If you don’t meet every single requirement but are excited about this role, we still would love to see you applying

Please submit your CV in English, as it will be reviewed by our international team

Benefits

• 30 days of holidays + 2 extra days for Christmas and New Year\'s Eve
• Hybrid working model
• Company pension scheme
• 24 / 7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance Cover
• Volunteering days
• Job bike
• Discounted parking or job ticket
• In-house gym
• In-house barista
• And you can bring your dog to the office

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.