Backend Engineer

About us:

Passion for food. Hunger for tech. We make METRO digital.

Today technology is driving the world. And at METRO.digital we are driving the technology for one of the leading international wholesalers specializing in food - METRO. From e-commerce to checkout, to delivery software, we work on a wide range of products to make each day a success for our customers and colleagues. With passion and ownership, we build the future of wholesale.

You are driving to create smart solutions for customers around the globe? You want to grow in a flexible environment? Let the right career opportunity find you and join us!

Your Responsibilities:

• Collaborating in a cross functional product team and with other teams on solving customer problems by delivering product functionalities and support;
• Being involved in all phases of software engineering, from inception to coding, testing, delivery and operation;
• Developing high quality code that follows best practices and clean code principles;
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security and performance;
• Collaborating with other engineers or team members on various layers of the infrastructure, in order to design and launch new features;
• Interacting with the client in order to understand and characterize their needs and advise them if necessary.

Required key competencies and qualifications:

• You have profound knowledge in programming language such as Java (7+ years of experience) as well as enthusiasm for automating and automatically scaling tests and deployments (with Docker and Kubernetes)
• You have fun solving complex business and technical problems and you want to work in a team that shares this ambition with you
• You have 7+ years experience with GCP and knowledge of IaC (Terraform)
• You want to develop yourself constantly and you love to make our digital world a little bit better every day
• You are interested in splitting large projects into small, manageable subprojects with microservices
• You have experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL and Cassandra)
• You have 7+ years experience with Spring.
• You have security in mind when designing an application
• You find it exciting to get to know and use new technologies and trends
• You are able to communicate fluently in English (written and verbal).
• It would be a plus if you have experience with Datadog