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This job opportunity invites you to shape the future of parking systems, where you'll be at the forefront of developing a cutting-edge backend, optimizing CI pipelines, and enhancing monitoring with Datadog, all while ensuring the seamless operation of thousands of parking lots. If you're a passionate engineer with a hunger for continuous improvement and proficiency in a variety of programming languages, this is your chance to revolutionize the industry and make a direct impact on our dynamic, tech-driven team.\nYour Objectives & Role:\nDrive the Backend Vision: Define and evolve the architecture of our backend systems, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and aligned with long-term product strategy.\nAlign Engineering with Strategy: Act as a technical counterpart to product and business stakeholders, translating company objectives into backend initiatives with measurable impact.\nDrive End-to-End Ownership: Take accountability for backend projects from concept to delivery and beyond, setting the standard for reliability and quality across the lifecycle.\nChampion Engineering Excellence: Set the bar for clean, performant, and maintainable code; foster a culture of high standards and technical curiosity.\nLead & Develop Engineers: Guide backend engineers through mentorship, coaching, and clear technical direction to grow the team’s capabilities and autonomy.\nArchitect for Scale & Resilience: Make critical decisions on system design and performance to support a growing platform with increasing complexity and scale.\nElevate Operational Maturity: Lead improvements to monitoring, observability, and developer workflows, ensuring backend systems are resilient and teams can ship confidently.\nEmbed Security by Design: Take responsibility for backend security posture, ensuring systems meet best practices and compliance from the ground up.\nBe a Force for Innovation: Stay ahead of backend trends and emerging technologies; drive continuous improvement in how we build, scale, and operate our systems.\nYour Expertise, Skills & Mindset:\nReal Seniority: Not defined by years of experience but by a drive for continuous improvement, direct business impact, and ownership.\nBackend Development: Strong proficiency in Python, C++, Node.js, and backend frameworks such as NestJS, Flask, Fastify, or FastAPI.\nCloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS services like RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, EC2, and SQS.\nInfrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform or similar tools for infrastructure automation.\nHigh-Throughput Systems: Strong experience in real production projects handling large-scale data flows.\nMonitoring & Observability: Proficiency in tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.\nSecurity & Networking: Solid understanding of networking principles, security best practices, and cloud security.\nAgile & Fast-Paced Environments: Experience in agile teams, working in dynamic, fast-growing tech environments.\n Excellent Communication: Strong English communication skills (C1+), with the ability to collaborate across teams. German proficiency is not required.\nTechnologies We Work With:\nEvent-driven backend development in Python and NestJS, following a microservice architecture\nFrontend monorepo with Turbo, pnpm, changesets, and storybook, primarily using Vue.js\nAdoption of TypeScript, NestJS, BullMQ, and Prisma for backends in an opinionated monorepo approach\nAmazon RDS, DynamoDB, S3\nContainer orchestration with Kubernetes and CI/CD using GitLab\nInfrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform\nLeveraging the serverless framework on AWS Lambda for high-throughput endpoints\nWork Setup:\n Hours: 40 hours per week (based on trust)\nHome Office Policy: 3 days in the office / 2 days remote\nContract: Permanent contract\n Location: Munich\nWhat We Offer:\nWe believe in supporting our team with an environment that fosters growth, well-being, and a great work-life balance.\nYour perks: company pension plan, corporate benefits, and JobRad bike leasing, plus, you can choose between a subsidized Deutschlandticket or an EGYM Wellpass membership.\nYour flexibility:flexible working hours and the option to work remotely from within the EU.\nYour setup:an onboarding experience that gets you up to speed right away, height-adjustable desks, and modern Apple equipment (MacBook (M4 Pro, 48GB Ram) and a 37-inch curved screen) for the perfect start from day one. Plus access to all major frontier AI models, MCP servers, and the agentic tooling you need to do your best work.\nYour well-being: a healthy energy boost with free snacks (fruit, nuts, muesli), subsidized office catering, and a weekly team lunch.\nYour fit: a lived start-up mentality in a financially secure and stable environment.\nOur Recruiting Process:\nInitial Contact: We’ll get back to you within 48 hours.\nHR Interview: Discuss your experience and expectations with our HR team.\nLive Assessment: Complete a technical exercise designed to challenge you with scenarios beyond your usual experience.\nTech Challenge: Tackle a problem in a familiar context to demonstrate your technical skills and approach.\nLeadership Conversation: Dive deeper into the role and expectations with a member of our technical leadership.\n On-Site Meeting: Visit our Munich office, meet more of the team, and experience our culture firsthand.\nInterested in joining our team? 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