Senior Cloud-Native Software Engineer (Full Stack / Kubernetes) m/w/d

vitagroup; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Mobile work

Work from other European countries

30 days paid leave

Pension plan

Travel health insurance

Bicycle leasing

Employee discounts

Professional development

Job summary

vitagroup is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, and support cloud-native software and integrations. You will own development through deployment, with focus on Kubernetes-based deployments and automation.

Responsibilities include building REST APIs, containerized services, and contributing to reliability, observability, and deployment practices. Fluent English and German are required; remote-friendly with opportunities in Europe.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of professional software development experience with hands-on responsibility.
• Proficiency in Java or TypeScript for backend development.
• Experience building and maintaining REST APIs and distributed applications.
• Strong Kubernetes experience including production deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on Docker, Helm, Linux and CI/CD tooling.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and microservices; ability to work independently.
• Fluent English and German.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components, integrations, and backend services.
• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot containerized apps on Kubernetes.
• Work with Helm charts, manifests, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Investigate and resolve complex application, network, container, and infra issues.
• Integrate healthcare information platform components into customer environments.
• Contribute to design decisions and improve deployment automation, reliability, monitoring.

Skills

Java

TypeScript

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Docker

Cloud-native architectures

English

German

Tools

Helm

Linux

Kubernetes manifests

CI/CD tools

Job description

Role overview

Design, build, and support cloud-native software and integrations, taking ownership from development through deployment and troubleshooting. The work spans backend services, occasional frontend functionality, and containerized applications running in customer environments. You’ll collaborate with engineering and operations colleagues to improve reliability, automation, and maintainability, with a particular focus on Kubernetes-based deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components, integrations, backend services, and frontend functionality as needed.
• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot containerized applications running on Kubernetes.
• Work with Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Investigate complex application, network, container, and infrastructure issues and help resolve them systematically.
• Integrate healthcare information platform components into customer environments and support implementation.
• Contribute to technical design decisions and improve deployment automation, reliability, monitoring, and engineering practices.

Requirements

• At least five years of professional software development experience with substantial hands-on engineering responsibility.
• Proficiency in a modern backend language such as Java or TypeScript.
• Experience building and maintaining REST APIs and distributed applications.
• Strong practical Kubernetes experience, including production deployment, configuration, operations, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Helm, Linux, and CI/CD tools.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and microservices, and the ability to work independently and take ownership.
• Fluent English and German.

Nice to have

• Frontend experience with tools such as React or Angular; cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of Terraform, GitOps, Argo CD, or related deployment automation tools.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or other observability tools.
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 FHIR or openEHR, or with PostgreSQL, message brokers, and event-driven systems.

Benefits and work setup

• flexible hours
• mobile work
• the possibility of working from other European countries
• 30 days of paid leave
• a pension plan
• travel health insurance
• bicycle leasing
• employee discounts
• professional development and mentoring opportunities