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What if parking was no longer a hassle? What if city infrastructure worked for people, not against them?

We believe city mobility should be smooth, smart, and sustainable. At Peter Park, we're turning outdated parking infrastructure into digital ecosystems, with real-time data, modern cloud architecture, and a team of people who care deeply about quality and user experience. Our backend systems power thousands of parking lots across Europe, replacing tickets, barriers, and waiting with seamless automation.

We’re looking for a backend engineer who codes with purpose, builds for scale, and thrives in a startup environment where every contribution matters.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll play a core role in how our platform evolves and scales, focusing on:

Architecting & Enhancing: Develop and refine our core backend systems, the very heart of our car parking solutions, impacting both B2B and B2C users.

• Streamline Deployment: Enhance and optimize CI/CD pipelines for both backend and IoT systems, ensuring a seamless, fully automated workflow that reliably delivers high-quality code to production with speed and confidence.
• Elevating Monitoring: Enhance our monitoring capabilities with Datadog, gaining deeper insights and proactively ensuring system health.
• Scaling for Impact: Contribute to scaling our systems to efficiently manage and operate thousands of parking lots.
• Championing Engineering Excellence: Play a key role in shaping our engineering culture, advocating for modern software engineering practices, clean code, robust testing, and efficient solutions.

Technologies We Work With:

We embrace modern, cutting-edge technologies to build robust and scalable solutions.

• Backend: Event-driven microservices in Python and NodeJS (NestJS).
• Frontend: Monorepo powered by Turbo, pnpm, changesets, and Storybook, primarily using Vue.js.
• Frameworks/Libraries: Adoption of TypeScript, NestJS, BullMQ, and Prisma for backends in an opinionated monorepo approach.
• Databases: Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, S3.
• Orchestration & CI/CD: We manage our container orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS), using Keda and Karpenter for dynamic autoscaling. Our CI/CD is powered by GitLab.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform for AWS provisioning.
• Serverless: Leveraging AWS Lambda and the Serverless framework for high-throughput endpoints.

Work Setup:

• Hours: 40 hours per week (based on trust).
• Home Office Policy: Enjoy a hybrid model with 3 days in the office / 2 days remote.
• Contract: A permanent contract for long-term stability.
• Location: Our modern office in Munich, a vibrant city in the heart of Bavaria.

• Real seniority: Not defined by years of experience but by strive for continuous improvement, direct impact on the business, and ownership.
• Deep Expertise: You have a deep expertise in one or more languages (Typescript, Javascript, Python, C++) and a proven ability to quickly adapt to new tools and frameworks.
• Production Powerhouse: Strong track record with real-world production projects handling high throughput.
• Backend Mastery: Proficient with modern backend frameworks like NestJS, Flask, Fastify, or FastAPI.
• Clear Communicator: Excellent written and spoken English (C1 level) is essential. German language proficiency is not required.

We believe in supporting our team with an environment that fosters growth, well-being, and a great work-life balance.

• Your Ideal Setup: MacBook (M4 Pro, 48GB Ram) and a 37-inch curved screen.
• Dynamic Culture: Enjoy a true startup atmosphere with flat hierarchies, agile teams, and a diverse, international group of colleagues.
• Flexibility: Benefit from flexible working hours and the option to work from home or our state-of-the-art Munich office with standing desks.
• Competitive Compensation: A strong competitive salary that recognizes your expertise.
• Future Planning: A solid company pension plan.
• Foodie Perks: Daily meal allowance, weekly free team lunch, a well-stocked cereal bar, and complimentary drinks.
• Health & Wellness: Job bike program and access to premium sports and fitness facilities via EGYM Wellpass or Urban Sports Club membership across Germany.
• Continuous Growth: Ample professional development opportunities to sharpen your skills.
• Language Support: German language learning opportunities.
• Exclusive Discounts: Enjoy special discounts on various branded products through Corporate Benefits.

Our Recruiting Process:

1. Initial Contact: We’ll get back to you within 48 hours.
2. HR Interview: Discuss your experience and expectations with our HR team.
3. Live Assessment: Showcase your skills in a practical technical challenge.
4. Leadership Conversation: A deep dive into the role and expectations with a member of our technical leadership
5. On-Site Meeting: Visit our Munich office, meet more of the team, and experience our culture firsthand!

Are you interested in becoming part of our team? We look forward to hearing from you!