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Software Engineer epilot Cologne, Germany €65,000 to €85,000 a year
March 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
epilot digitizes the energy industry with a unique cloud software. We are a fast growing scale-up in the heart of Cologne. Our mission: epilot revolutionizes the way all market partners in the energy world work together to deliver products and services. We offer a large network of partners within the cloud world, which is constantly expanded by the community.
We "epilots" are a team of experts from the fields of software development, energy management, product management and sales. In order to bring our solution even faster to the top in the energy world, we are looking for you as a Software Engineer (m/f/d).
What awaits you
You will get a deep insight into the German energy market and why epilot is a blessing for the digitalization of the market.
You will not only help us to put our vision into practice, but you will also play an active role in shaping it
You are part of the team building the epilot software product using modern web technologies and languages.
You are part of an agile cross-functional team of full-stack, backend and frontend developers, as well as designers and product managers
You will participate in exciting and diverse development projects using agile methods.
You will coach others to learn more as well as be constantly learning new technologies yourself.
In close collaboration with our product management and design teams, you deliver end to end features for our users/
Technically speaking, the use of cutting edge technology is awaiting you, e.g. React, Node.js, Typescript, Golang, AWS and serverless. Check out our current tech stack https://techradar.epilot.io
What you bring
You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a comparable education.
Ideally you have experience with React OR other JavaScript frameworks
Experience crafting and implementing RESTful micro-services or GraphQL
Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands on experience with public OR private cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
You are familiar with microservices based architecture patterns
Experience in taking ownership of features, with a team on short and long-running projects
Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, scrum)
You think like an entrepreneur - you understand our business goals and how your daily decisions influence them.
You don't see problems as a problem, but as a great opportunity for you personally, your team and epilot.
You are a doer and have a strong Do-It mentality.
You make quick, smart decisions and weigh the risk intelligently.
You are a TEAM player, motivating and inspiring your colleagues.
What we offer you
The opportunity to help building the most successful SaaS platform in the energy market.
Start-up mentality: dynamic atmosphere and great team spirit.
A rapidly growing company with an open communication culture, motivated colleagues and an international corporate culture.
Epilot is growing rapidly and we expect the same from you. You never stand still, you are permanently challenged, you learn from your mistakes a la Fail Fast and Often.
A central location in the heart of Cologne with cool cafes around the corner.
Performance is rewarded with us - We take your desired salary seriously and talk openly about it with you.
Transparency - We maintain a very flat and open corporate culture, everything is visible and open for discussion.
Coffee, cold drinks, fruits and much appreciation.
You want to know what it is like to work for us? Find out what our colleagues on Kununu say about work @ epilot: https://www.kununu.com/de/epilot
Senior software engineer Back Berlin, Germany €60,000 to €80,000 a year
June 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Back is a young software company from Berlin with the mission to enable companies to focus on what they do best. We're building a collaboration and automation platform to untangle repetitive questions and workflows around the workplace.
You will join our experienced engineering team to develop our platform and architecture. We like to solve complex problems with elegant and robust solutions. If you are excited about building highly scalable solutions built on a modern stack using best practices then this role is perfect for you.
This position is based in our growing HQ office in Berlin.
🔨 What you will do
You will build APIs that the frontend developers will love and our customers will rely on.
You will implement high quality and well-tested code that you are not afraid to push on production.
You will deploy your code on a 100% cloud infrastructure.
You will be curious and excited to learn new technologies required to build our product.
👩🔬 Who are we looking for
You are only satisfied after developing the best software you could possibly have come up with.
You write code that you are proud of and that your mother could understand.
You think that code should never be pushed on production without automated tests and you will never compromise on this.
You care about the details and are constantly willing to learn and improve your knowledge and skills.
You enjoy working closely with product and design teams.
You like to work in a team and challenge your choices with your peers.
🚀 Why Back
You’ll join a company that believes in a strong engineering culture. We use modern technologies, best practices, within a team of smart people who want to change the way people work.
You’ll have the opportunity to build great infrastructure. You can be as creative as you want as long as it creates a better product.
You’ll get the chance to work with exciting technologies: distributed architecture, machine learning, and natural language processing.
You'll work on a modern and robust stack: Go, gRPC, Protobuf, GraphQL, Typescript and React.
You will team up with the founders to create a great product with your signature on it.
We love open-source and will support you in the process of contributing to libraries we use or open-sourcing some of our work.
You’ll join a company at an early stage and you will receive an attractive package containing salary and shares.
You'll join an amazing team. Want to know who could be your future colleagues? Have a look here: http://bit.ly/working-at-Back
Interview Process
You’ll talk to Annie — she will present information about Back and ensure we are a good mutual fit.
You’ll talk to James, our CTO and Co-Founder. He will answer all your questions, present you background about our process and how we work at Back.
You’ll have a small home exercise to complete to show us that you can define simple solutions and write clean code.
We’ll review your code and share our feedback with you over a zoom call. We’ll ask you about the decisions you made and answer your questions.
You’ll meet the engineering team. We'll discuss engineering topics, have a collaborative solution design session and we’ll add a small feature to your coding challenge together. The goal is to simulate daily work, collaborate and make sure we all enjoy it.
You’ll meet the product and design team. They’ll show you the product, explain the strategy and answer all your questions. The goal is to make sure it’s the product that you’ll be excited about building.
You’ll meet Christian, CEO and Co-founder and again James. We’ll discuss your future at Back, your interest and make sure the team and culture fit well.
We believe that the efficient management of buildings and office spaces is key to curbing the impact of climate change, enabling a more comfortable, productive and healthier working environment, and we’re looking for early team members passionate about this mission.
We are currently looking for an experienced Full-stack Engineer. You’ll be part of a team that builds a state-of-the-art infrastructure and networking solution.You will help build an affordable and simple to use cloud-based building automation software for small and medium-sized offices, to collect, manage, and integrate building devices in real time.
What you will do?
Implementation of a robust set of services and APIs to power the web application
Work with popular open source libraries including React, Redux and React Router
Work with GoLang and AWS tech stack for the backend
Building reusable code and libraries for future use
Optimisation of the application for maximum speed and scalability
Implementation of security and data protection
Integration of the front-end aspects of the applications
Providing the best in class UX for customers of the web application
Working closely with designers to bring their vision to life
Adhering to a set of code standards and good practices
Who you are?
Passionate about continous learning and furthering our cause
You hold BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
You have deep JavaScript knowledge and have worked with ES6
You are an expert in web technologies and APIs (HTTP2, TCP/IP, CSS/HTML, Browser JS APIs)
You are knowledgeable in modern web tools (NPM/Yarn, Babel etc.)
You are experienced working with React.js
You like to build for scale – lean but ready for demand growth
You’re a fan of open source philosophy, with data-driven development approach
You have a proven ability to efficiently manage all aspects of the software development life cycle in an Agile environment
You have an intense focus on building secure and reliable systems
You have a desire to build highly usable customer centric products
What we offer?
Working directly with the founders and shaping the company, who just received 7-digit Seed funding
Go Backend Engineer Vizzlo Leipzig, Germany €40,000 to €55,000 a year
October 2019
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Help us kickstart a new era of mind-blowing business graphics accessible to everyone!
Vizzlo creates individual business graphics. Whether for presentations, business documents, or the Web – with Vizzlo anybody can visualize their ideas in seconds.
We are looking for an experienced Go backend developer to join our team in Leipzig or remote. We are a growing team of enthusiasts in a VC-backed startup. We’re proud of our hands-on culture, we talk plainly to each other, and improve anything we’re working on until it’s perfect.
The role
As a Go backend engineer, you’ll work on our API servers and internal libraries that make the Vizzlo products come to live. Your code will talk to AWS storage infrastructure, to JavaScript frontends, and best of all, to lots of different third-party APIs of other products Vizzlo integrates with. You are passionate about idiomatic Go code but are not afraid to tackle obstacles from all kinds of points of view when necessary. You love to write reliable, scalable, and tested code.
What we’re looking for
3+ years of backend development experience, preferably in mid-sized teams
Verifiable Go knowledge
Proficiency in SQL
Comfort & prior experience in some of the following technologies of current SaaS stacks: AWS, MongoDB, Postgres, REST API, …
You worked on a SaaS product before? That’s a HUGE plus.
What we don’t care about
Your gender, where you’re coming from, etc
The degree you have—or not have
The tools you use to do your job
The time you spend at the office (Our office is very cool, you’ll love to be here)
What we offer
Full-time position with competitive remuneration package
Startup environment where your motivation and energy can make a difference – we learn something new every day, so can you!
International team of highly-motivated doers
Very flexible work time; home office or 100% remote possible
Should you chose to move here: Ultra-nice offices inside of an old spinning company, right in Leipzig’s hipster capital: Plagwitz, complete with the best espresso and ping-pong table
Backend Engineer OptioPay Berlin, Germany €50,000 to €80,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Your Role
-To architect, design, develop, deploy, evolve, and operate distributed systems in a DevOps way
-To be an integral part of an empowered and self-organizing team
-To actively collaborate with other engineers, product owners, domain experts and designers to deliver great outcomes
-To pair with others and review work, sharing knowledge and increasing quality across the board
-To scale our reach by integrating our platform with more banks, PSPs, insurances and other financial systems
-To champion continuous improvement of technology and the ways we work
Your Profile
-You have at least 5 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
-You can build and debug reliable, high availability, secure and performant distributed services in Golang
-You care about quality and know when and how to ship code safely
-You have a solid understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
-You are experienced with deploying and operating services on Linux
-You can reason and drive technical decisions
-You love to experiment and use data to drive decision-making
-You get inspired, think of new ideas and like to share them with others
Our Offer
-A tightly knit team of experienced engineers with lots of interesting challenges to dive into
-A modern technology stack: Golang, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, CoreOS, Terraform
-Extensive individual responsibility and personal support to grow professionally
-Become part of a talented multinational team of 50 working in Berlin
-Semi-monthly OptioAcademy – our internal knowledge sharing project
Internal meetups – technical knowledge sharing events
-Prime office location – top floor of the city’s tallest building, the best view in Berlin!
-Various fun events (weekly team lunch, Friday after work drinks and BBQ, OptioAcademy, Meetups, Hackathons)
-EUR 2,000 annual training budget for conferences, books, trainings, etc.
-Free educational library, breakfast, drinks and fruit to keep energy levels high
-Your choice of hardware and software
About OptioPay
OptioPay is a payment processor with a difference. Our software increases the value of any payment received by consumers from companies, by combining bank transfers with higher value gift cards. By integrating payments to employees or customers with effective marketing, we aim to create a completely new, performance based, advertising channel. OptioPay was founded by Marcus Börner and Oliver Oster in 2014 and is located at the top floor of the Treptowers.
At OptioPay we work cross-functionally, agile and test our limits to outgrow ourselves. Our goal is to change the way how people receive and spend money. To do this, we need your talent, creativity and drive. Join our diverse, multi-cultural and inspiring team, a fun and friendly group with a multitude of talents. At OptioPay you will find an ambitious and empowering environment with a shared vision and passion. We are looking forward to meeting you!
We are looking for a (Senior) Backend Engineer with experience in Golang (f/m/d) to join our Global Contact Center Tech team to address our customers', riders', and restaurants' support issues quickly and with as little friction as possible which is crutial to our ability to create an amazing experience for our users.
In order to achieve this goal, we are building our own Automation & Support Platform to manage in-app support, self-service flows, transactional communication, automation of business processes, and other technologies that make ticket resolution more seamless: from the moment a user enters the customer support in the App, to making sure we have sufficient customer service agents available to solve the problem in a fast matter, and anything in between.
Your mission:
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
Coaching and mentoring team members.
Take part in architectural decision making.
Understanding development lifecycle and collaborate with cross-functional and international agile teams.
Your heroic skills:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or an equivalent education or practical experience.
Extensive experience in general purpose programming language.
Experience working with distributed and parallel systems and web applications.
Practical experience with Design Patterns, Design Principles, Software Architecture and Algorithms and automated tests (unit, integration and functional).
Very good communication skills in English, both written and spoken.
Extensive experience with:
Golang
Design Driven Development.
Hexagonal Architecture.
S.O.L.I.D principles.
Event-driven architecture.
Good knowledge of relational databases (You should be aware of normal forms, ACID, isolation levels, index anatomy).
Other requirements:
Ability to work in a fast-paced software release environment.
Flexible and open-minded personality.
Comfortable working in a multi-cultural environment.
Our stack consists of:
Microservice architecture.
Redis, Elasticsearch, SQL and key-value storage, AMQP.
Cloud-based infrastructure following 12 factors using Kubernetes/Docker.
Go and Phython as main languages.
*Why Delivery Hero?*
Develop your skills with your educational budget for conferences and external trainings.
Exchange ideas and meet fellow developers at regular meetups, in our active guilds and during our Global Developer Exchange Program.
Join company parties, hackathons, cultural and sports events.
Work in diverse teams with colleagues from across the globe in English.
Save responsibly with our corporate pension scheme.
Daily fruits, cereals, beverages, tea and coffee in our lounges.
Learn German with free classes, access our e-learning platform and participate in our inhouse trainings.
Enjoy massages, get your haircut in the office, join our free yoga classes or take a timeout in our nap room.
*About us:*
Delivery Hero Tech is playing an exceptional role in the large growth of our company. Our Tech teams leverage a diverse stack to create cutting-edge solutions which cover the full customer experience - starting with a great online search experience and ending with a real-time delivery at your doorstep.
Delivery Hero is building the next generation global on-demand delivery platform. We have grown rapidly from inception in 2011 to become the world's largest food-ordering network and we’re now innovating and creating new verticals such as groceries, pharmacies, flowers and other convenience articles in multiple markets.
Our awesome international team already operates in 40+ countries worldwide and we are looking for the most talented people to join us on our mission to ‘always deliver an amazing experience.’ If you’re an enthusiastic problem solver and hungry for a new adventure, an exciting job and multicultural workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!
At Delivery Hero, we believe diversity and representation is key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring -- therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or any other aspect that makes you, you.
**Have we caught your attention? If you are looking for an environment where our company DNA is defined by our values, please send us your CV.**
Find out more information on how to prepare for you technical interview here.
Software Engineer Marem Research Berlin, Germany €40,000 to €80,000 a year
October 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
SOFTWARE ENGINEER WITH MAREM RESEARCH - Junior to Lead (several Positions)
Your Role
• To design, develop, deploy, evolve, and operate latency and through-put optimized system architectures.
• To be an integral part of an empowered and self-organizing team
• To touch base with a great variety of fields such as software engineering, data engineering and data science
• To actively collaborate with other engineers, product owners, domain experts and designers to deliver great outcomes
• To pair with others and review work, sharing knowledge and increasing quality across the board
Your Profile
• You have gained already professional experience as a Software Engineer
• You can build and debug reliable, high availability, secure and performant distributed services in Go or alternatively have intensive experience in a compiling language
• Experience with trading systems or crypto trading is a plus.
• You care about quality and know when and how to ship code safely
• You have a solid understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
• You are experienced with deploying and operating services on Docker or Kubernetes
• You love to experiment and use data to drive decision-making
Our Offer
• A tightly knit team of experienced entrepreneurs and engineers with lots of interesting challenges to dive into
• A modern technology stack: Go, Python, Cassandra, InfluxDB, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Cloudflare
• Extensive individual and personal support to grow professionally
• Become part of a talented multinational team in Berlin
• Prime office location and leveraged bonus and compensation schemes
About Marem Research
Marem Research together with DLT Market are building the first fully regulated inter dealer broker for the crypto market allowing institutional investors to enter the market compliantly in cooperation with the most advanced and innovative European banks. It is our mission to influence and shape the future of finance and path the way for the next generation of financial technology. We seek to bridge the gap of traditional finance and the new crypto world. On top of our state of the art infrastructure we conduct proprietary trading activity exploiting the vast experience residing in our team and making use of this unique setup. We are a data driven company, quickly creating and trying out new ways to make the market more efficient.
Lead Software Engineer WATTx Berlin, Germany €60,000 to €70,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Are you a self starter who’s always eager to take on new challenges? Do you have a good taste for engineering design and can spot bad design from a mile away? Are you a natural leader? WATTx is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our ranks. As a part of Engineering Team, you will lead technical development of projects solving challenging industrial problems, working in cross functional teams in an agile environment.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:
-Leading day-to-day development
-Technical design and implementation of the product
-Planning and specifying the product roadmap
-Close collaboration with the founders, engineers, researchers, venture developers and data scientists.
-The engineering culture at WATTx has been shaped around principles of user-centric design and agile software development. We work in autonomous teams, value pragmatism over idealism, simplicity over complexity and technological agnosticism over fundamentalism, and are looking for people who share these values.
WHAT YOU NEED TO START YOUR MISSION:
-Extensive experience in designing complex software systems and knowledge about design patterns and antipatterns
-At least 2 years of experience leading software engineering teams
-Experience with agile project management methodologies, demonstrated by ability to select processes that work, based on current situation and not on dogma
-Excellent people skills
-Extensive experience with strongly typed programming languages, Golang being preferred
-Extensive experience operating or designing distributed systems
-Extensive experience working on real-time data processing, knowledge of -InfluxDB or VoltDB is a plus
-Experience with Docker or similar containerization technology
-Experience performing code reviews and pair-programming with other software engineers
-Experience with Kubernetes
-DevOps skills
WHAT WE OFFER:
-A competitive compensation package
-Diverse environment to learn and thrive in
-Monthly hackathons
-Ownership over your projects and an empowered working environment
-Guidelines and training materials based on industry best practices and our experience
-A generous learning budget for professional and personal development
ABOUT US
WATTx is a new kind of company builder focused on creating deep technologies in the industrial and consumer Internet of things. We are a full-stack team: hardware and software engineers, data scientists, user experience researchers and designers, venture developers, and strategists. Our cross-functional project teams take a user-centric approach to identifying opportunity areas in particular research areas that inform ideation sessions. Solutions that evolve from these sessions are quickly prototyped and vetted as pilots with clients, investors, and potential partners. Dedicated to lean development and a sprint spirit, we expect research kick-off to venture spin-out to take a matter of a few months.
Backend Golang Engineer Wallet Connect Remote / Berlin, Germany $85,000 to $100,000 a year
December 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
WalletConnect is the open-source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps. Started four years ago, our mission is to make web3 accessible to everyone. Every month, millions of people use WalletConnect in over 200 integrations.
We’re looking for a backend golang engineer to join our team to build and scale our network. To help grow web3, we recently launched WalletConnect 2.0 with new features, including multi-chain support, a decentralized back-end, faster connections, and 10x performance and scalability. You will help us expand and scale our backend messaging infrastructure.
You will be responsible for building Golang messaging services. A main challenge is growing our services to scale for our millions of users across billions of websocket connections every month, as well as ensuring security and resiliency.
To help with your role, you will have the support of our devops team to deploy and manage our infrastructure, will work closely with our protocol and SDK teams, and have exposure to the full WalletConnect stack.
The ideal candidate is immersed in the best practices of golang at scale, messaging systems and Websockets.
Responsibilities:
Building a microservice architecture based on Golang with scaling in mind
Work with protocols such as Websockets, gRPC
Help with monitoring by creating metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
Develop unit and integration tests for core business logic
Work closely with our devops team to manage and scale our infrastructure
Must have:
3+ years professional experience in software development at least one modern programming language, including Golang, TypeScript, C++, Java, or Rust.
At least 1 year of professional Golang experience.
Experience using Postgres, AWS, with demonstrable experience with systems engineering and automation.
You have experience with network programming or distributed systems development
Experience working on products at scale
Nice to have:
Experience working on systems optimisation
Experience with k8s or Nomad a plus
Desire to learn more about Blockchain technologies or experience with PoS systems.
Familiarity with operations/SRE and the concept of infrastructure as code
Websocket experience
Benefits
What WalletConnect offers:
Fully remote position with flexible timezone (CET/EST preferred)
Senior Backend Engineer Iconmobile Berlin, Germany €80,000 to €90,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
About us
iconmobile group is an international product innovation corporation globally headquartered in Berlin (Germany) with further offices in Santa Monica, Detroit, Munich, Ingolstadt and Shanghai – having companies like icon incar and banbutsu within our professional family.
We are part of the WPP network blending more than a decade of design and user experience with deep technical expertise and business sense. With our clients from various industries like Automotive, Consumer Products, Financial Services and Health Care we aim for innovative solutions that are both commercially successful and game changing.
Our mission is to grow and transform businesses through the creation of new digital services and products with a focus on creating compelling user experiences to establish successful customer relationships.
Design is at the heart of what we do, fueled by our curiosity and the passion to deliver the best possible results. Our creative thinking is end to end, starting with ideas and paper, informing design of user experiences, while in parallel we validate technical feasibility and implement software and hardware prototypes. Our efforts are punctuated with future showcases or industrialized products at scale.
About the position
You will join the platform team which is part of the software engineering department . Your mission is to build modern, highly scalable cloud-based platforms using Golang. These platforms are used for hardware and software products which will be used in production by often millions of users.
You should be living in Berlin to be able to have (after Corona) some meetings in the office. Flexible REMOTE work is possible.
Your role
Envision and implement future-proof cloud platforms for hardware and software products
Continuously create, develop and deliver superior quality platforms on time
Lead other, more junior engineers by example
Your profile
Mindset:
Passion for simple code which is functional, well tested and easy to understand
Focus on delivering quality centered around a great experience for the API user
Experience with agile & distributed software development
Strong self-organizer with a hands-on mentality
Programming Languages:
4+ years of experience in backend development
3+ years in using Golang to build cloud platforms used in production
Stack & Systems:
Strong experience with Postgres, Redis and message queues like RabbitMQ
Strong experience in defining REST APIs and designing microservices
Experience in building distributed low-latency systems exposing an API
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes
Production experience with popular cloud services (Azure, AWS, GCP)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Methodologies and tools:
Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Jira, Confluence, Git
Test-driven development
Nice-to-have:
An open-source track record on Github
Team leading skills
Experience in working in a Golang Monorepo
Experience with oAuth 2.0
Communication:
Experience in working in an international, intercultural team
Good communication skills in English
Experience wth team chats (Slack or Mattermost) and video calls
What do we offer
Under the umbrella of WPP Holding, we offer you the perfect environment to develop yourself professionally and personally.
Regular feedback discussions and responsibility from day one will help you achieve your goals.
On the way there, we will make your everyday life easier with flexible working hours, training, employee events, drinks, snacks and various other benefits.