Backend Software Engineer: Microservices, Cloud & Kotlin

arconsis IT-Solutions GmbH; Germany (OH); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Knowledge sharing

Team collaboration

Training opportunities

Job summary

A leading IT solutions company is seeking a highly-skilled software engineer to manage customer projects. You'll be responsible for the complete software development cycle, working with innovative technologies in a dynamic team. Ideal candidates will have 3+ years of experience, excellent skills in software development, and a degree in Computer Science. The company offers a pleasant working atmosphere and opportunities for personal development.

Qualifications

• 3+ years working experience in professional software development.
• Fluent in English and basic knowledge of German is a plus.
• Experience with Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute full software development life cycles.
• Develop and improve IT systems/solutions.
• Examine existing systems and create solutions.

Skills

Software development

OOP / Functional Programming

Git

Agile collaboration

REST API development

Kotlin

Microservices architecture

Docker

CI/CD

Test driven development

Education

Degree in Computer Science or comparable education

Tools

Spring Boot

JEE/Quarkus

PostgreSQL

API management (e.g., Kong, AWS)

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

Your mission

We’re looking for a highly-skilled software engineer (m/f/o) to take responsibility for customer projects within an interdisciplinary team. Youl have expert knowledge of the complete software development process (conception, development, architecture, implementation) and you are skilled in coding for both the frontend and backend? If finding issues and fixing them meticulously with beautiful code are among your talents as software engineer, we’d like to hear from you.

• Plan and execute full software development life cycles for each assigned project, adhering to company standards and expectations
• Continuous development of IT systems/solutions, adapt them to technological innovations and ensure the seamless integration of the software into the company's IT landscape
• Examine existing systems, identifying flaws and creating solutions to improve systems
• Your working style is characterized by personal responsibility, goal orientation and your willingness to contribute and develop in an agile and cross-functional team
• You are not only taking up innovative technologies, methods and trends, but also actively shaping them

Your profile

• Degree in Computer Science or comparable education
• 3+ years working experience in professional software development
• Proven experience with OOP / Functional Programming
• Proficiency with Git
• High social and intercultural competence and the ability to collaborate in agile teams
• Fluent English language skills
• Basic German language skills (nice-to-have)
• Working experience in the design and implementation of REST endpoints and BFF with Spring Boot or JEE/Quarkus and Node.js
• We prefer using Kotlin for JVM based Frameworks
• Good understanding of Micro Services Architecture, Messaging, Event Driven Architecture, Event Streaming and Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Basic understanding of Domain Specific Languages and Model Driven Development (nice-to-have)
• Understanding of relational databases and ORM (e.g. PostgreSQL and JPA/Hibernate)
• Understanding of noSQL- and Graph-databases (nice-to-have)
• Experience with API-management solutions (e.g. Kong, AWS) • Development experience of Web Frontends is a great advantage (focus on backend but we also like full-stack)
• Working experience with Containers and Container Management Solutions (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Developing experience with one the following Cloud provides for IaaS or PaaS or SaaS (nice to have): AWS, Azure, GCP
• Creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
• Experience with test driven development and Clean Code
• Confident use of AI coding assistants and AI-based development tools is expected

Why us?

• At arconsis you are surrounded by software engineer enthusiasts and gripping projects await you
• We love to share knowledge and support each other
• Working together as an interdependent team to accomplish a common goal, and knowing how to get things done
• We maintain high personal standards, and possess an ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge
• Challenging tasks in a powerful and dynamic cross-functional team with flat hierarchies
• Open communication and a pleasant working atmosphere with cool colleagues, innovative technologies and a lot of fun at work
• Excellent individual development and training opportunities, Brown-bags, Meetups
• Room for ideas and the opportunity to shape solutions