Developer jobs in Germany

Shopware is a leading ecommerce system that enables companies worldwide to scale quickly and efficiently in digital commerce. As a trendsetting open source solution, Shopware is already used by some of the largest European brands, retailers, and manufacturers in the B2C and B2B industries.

Our Services Enablement Team builds and operates shared infrastructure, developer tooling, and foundational services that power product teams. Think things like a Service Registry, Terraform Modules, AWS Infrastructure, and full-stack applications that enable service subscription and payment.

As an Engineering Lead in this team, you’ll balance people leadership with technical direction, helping the team deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems on AWS using Terraform, with strong observability via Datadog and healthy engineering workflows in GitHub.

No matter where you work, you are an integral part of the team. Therefore, we are looking for an Engineering Lead (m/f/d) for our Service Enablement Team throughout Germany/Europe!

Lead & develop the team: hiring, coaching, feedback, mentoring, and career growth.

Own delivery & direction: plan and guide work across gRPC/REST APIs, background jobs, data pipelines, reusable infrastructure components

Reliability at scale: improve performance and resilience for high-traffic services and workflows built on Redis/MySQL/SQS.

Engineering excellence: establish standards for quality, testing, security, and observability; improve GitHub workflows (PR quality, CI, automation).

Operational excellence: incident response, postmortems, SLOs/SLIs, and pragmatic on-call health improvements.

Partner effectively by collaborating with Product, Security, and other Engineering teams to align roadmaps and ensure smooth and safe deployments.

Communicate clearly: keep stakeholders aligned on progress, risks, trade-offs, and outcomes.

Previous hands-on experience working as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE, or System Administrator.

5+ years of experience leading Engineering teams, preferably Platform Engineering/Cloud teams

Solid experience with AWS, Terraform, Datadog, and modern CI/CD practices in GitHub.

Strong system design across distributed services, APIs, data stores, and async processing.

Hands-on familiarity with Go and TypeScript/Node.js; able to guide architecture decisions.

Experience building multi-tenant, secure, resilient services in production.

Strong ownership mindset and a proven track record of improving team performance.

Company Culture: Open culture with flat hierarchies, where individual initiative is encouraged.

Employment Contracts: Permanent positions that offer long-term security.

Flexibility: Flexible working hours and options for mobile work and full-remote contracts.

Equipment: Freedom to choose your preferred work hardware.

Onboarding: Well-structured onboarding with support from a personal "buddy."

Work Environment: An inspiring environment with dedicated colleagues and a dynamic community.

Development Opportunities: Diverse opportunities for personal growth and development.

Additional Benefits: Attractive perks such as company pension plans, health programs, and regular team events.

... and much more!

You can get a detailed insight on our career page.

Your personal contact for this position is Yanina Rudenko and is happy to answer any questions you may have!

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