Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d) - Employment Contract Only (No B2B)

PTV Logistics GmbH; Italy; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

PTV Logistics GmbH is seeking an experienced software engineer for a Remote-First, AI-augmented engineering team. You will own end-to-end feature delivery across the stack, from backend services to frontend interfaces, focusing on APIs, data models, and robust testing.

Collaboration and collective ownership are core, with tooling that embraces AI-assisted development. You will contribute to a cloud-native platform, continually evolve architecture, and work in a distributed, async-friendly

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering with production delivery experience.
• Genuine full-stack capability — backend, APIs, data layer, and frontend.
• Strong API design, implementation, versioning, and consumer-first thinking.
• Proficiency with relational and document databases.
• Automated testing discipline integrated into delivery.
• Cloud deployment awareness and production-readiness.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools.
• Clear written communication in English, async-friendly.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, data persistence, and frontend interfaces; design decisions are collaborative.
• Work in small increments, integrate frequently, keep code releasable.
• Design consumer-friendly, versioned APIs.
• Co-own data modelling decisions with the team including schema design and migrations.
• Write automated tests and instrument software for observability from day one.
• Refactor continuously and operate software as a team in production.
• Document design decisions, API contracts, and domain knowledge clearly.
• Pair with teammates and share patterns and tools, including AI workflows.

Skills

Full stack capability

API development

Databases

Automated testing

Cloud deployment

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CDK

Job description

Your mission

You will join a Remote-First, AI-augmented engineering organisation in active transformation — distributed, modernising its practices, and looking for engineers who want to help shape that, not just execute within it. You contribute across the full stack from day one, bring strong engineering habits, and take collective ownership of what the team ships. This is not a role where you settle into a narrow lane. Ownership here is collective: you build, review, deploy, and support together. No one ships alone. Sounds interesting?

• You build and maintain backend services, APIs, data persistence, and frontend interfaces — design decisions are made collectively
• You work in small increments, integrate frequently, and keep the codebase in a releasable state at all times
• You design APIs with the consumer in mind: intuitive, versioned, consistent, and built to evolve.
• You co-own data modelling decisions with your team: schema design, query patterns, and migration strategy
• You write automated tests as a first-class deliverable — unit, integration, and API-level — and instrument your software for observability from day one.
• You improve existing code as you go — refactoring is part of delivery, not a separate activity
• You deploy and operate software as a team — everyone understands how the system runs in production, not just the person who last touched it
• You document design decisions, API contracts, and domain knowledge clearly in writing, and communicate proactively about blockers, tradeoffs, and progress
• You pair with teammates regularly and share effective patterns and tools — including AI workflows — with the team
• Code review is a team practice, not a gate. You give feedback that improves the code and the engineer, and you receive it with the same openness

What You Need To Bring

• You have 5+ years of professional software engineering with production delivery experience and a demonstrated ability to shape systems, not just implement features
• You bring genuine full-stack capability — backend, APIs, data layer, and frontend — with the ability to deliver a complete feature without handoff
• You have strong API development experience: design, implementation, versioning, and consumer-first thinking
• You are proficient with databases across both relational and document paradigms
• You practice automated testing discipline — tests are part of delivery, not an afterthought
• You have cloud deployment awareness: you understand how software gets from code to production
• You actively use AI-assisted development tooling (Copilot, Cursor, Kiro, or equivalent)
• You communicate clearly and effectively in writing, in English — you default to async and use synchronous time intentionally.

Good To Have

• You have infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, CDK, or equivalent)
• You practice hands-on observability — you instrument what you ship
• You have software design awareness including SOLID principles and knowing when not to apply them
• You have experience with NoSQL or document stores (MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or similar)
• You apply security awareness in design and implementation: input validation, authentication patterns, dependency hygiene
• You have experience in a remote-first or distributed engineering team
• You are familiar with event-driven architecture or microservices patterns

Why us?

• A role in a global logistics technology company working on software that routes and plans millions of vehicle movements across Europe and beyond
• A Remote-First engineering culture with meaningful async collaboration — a team that values doing the right thing over velocity metrics
• A real transformation to contribute to: cloud-native platform with meaningful engineering decisions still ahead