(Senior) Backend Engineer (f/m/d) - Kotlin

Our mission is to empower customers to efficiently create, maintain, explore, and analyse their enterprise architecture on a large scale. Join our dynamic team dedicated to developing such scalable customer journeys for our Enterprise Architecture product.

As an engineer on our team you will:

• Work on the core functionality at the heart of our product
• Enable customers to interact effectively with large amounts of fact sheets effectively
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure our backend continues to scale with the needs of our customers
• Developing innovative workflows to help our customers grow and maintain their datasets

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE? 

Well, there are several compelling reasons:

• We've made significant investments to create a thriving work environment for everyone. We strongly advocate for open access to leadership, transparent communication, and personal development. We are committed to providing our world-class team with access to the best software stack available.
• We tackle complex, large-scale engineering challenges that require both creativity and deep technical expertise.
• We foster a culture of empowered product teams, ensuring that you're not merely following a predetermined roadmap, but actively engaging in problem-solving. Consequently, we highly value and reward outcomes, not just output.
• We adopt a "we build it, we run it" approach! This means we're not only responsible for building and delivering features but also ensuring our customers can depend on them. This commitment underscores our value for resilience, extensive automation, and proactive measures to address issues before they impact our customers.
• We place a high priority on continuous improvement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. As a product team, we are committed to constantly enhancing our products by validating and measuring user interactions to ensure their effectiveness.
• We hold work-life balance in high regard. We firmly believe that the best engineers are those who are well-rested and maintain diverse interests beyond their work. That's why we provide flexible working hours, allowing you to tailor your job to fit your life.

WHAT AWAITS YOU?

• Design and implement new user journeys to let customers interact with their data at scale in our backend service
• Driving innovative new workflows with the help of AI
• Passionate and experienced colleagues that help you grow (see our blog)
• Shape the core experiences for customers in SAP LeanIX EAM, have a real impact

WHAT IS OUR STACK?

• Backend in Kotlin
• Event-driven architecture
• GraphQL and REST APIs
• Modern CI/CD toolchains, e.g. GitHub Actions
• Infrastructure as code, Terraform
• Robust monitoring, alerting and product usage through Instana, Azure Log Analytics, Grafana, Amplitude
• many other tools and technologies

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Be guided by engineering values: they aren’t just pretty words on a blog. We live by them and they drive what we do at SAP LeanIX every day
• Curious and growth mindset: you believe that continuous learning is at the core of professional growth and have a natural curiosity to understand how things work and are willing to share your learnings with your peers
• Communication and Collaboration: open communication and collaboration is at the heart of what we do at SAP LeanIX not just within the engineering community but spanning across domain boundaries
• Excel at building scalable and maintainable backends
• Enjoy solving technical challenges and delivering customer value in a SaaS product environment

In addition, we value:

• Standard role: 2+ years , Senior role: 4+ years of working experience
• Proficiency in working with Kotlin and Java
• Experience in building and running scalable backend services is advantageous
• Practical experience in development and deployment of ML, AI based features is a plus
• Familiarity with modern tools and practices
• Ability and willingness to work on-site in our Bonn or Berlin office at least 20% of your time. Kindly note: We are only accepting applications from candidates based in Germany