Senior Backend Developer (m/f/d)

Senior Backend Developer (m/f/d) at Peter Park System GmbH

Requirements Please note that this position requires work authorization for Germany .

Language: English - Fluent

• Real seniority: Not defined by years of experience but by strive for continuous improvement, direct impact on the business, and ownership.
• Deep Expertise: You have a deep expertise in one or more languages (Typescript, Javascript, Python, C++) and a proven ability to quickly adapt to new tools and frameworks.
• Production Powerhouse: Strong track record with real-world production projects handling high throughput.
• Backend Mastery: Proficient with modern backend frameworks like NestJS, Flask, Fastify, or FastAPI.
• Clear Communicator: Excellent written and spoken English (C1 level) is essential. German language proficiency is not required.

Activities Your Objectives & Role: As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll play a core role in how our platform evolves and scales, focusing on:

• Architecting & Enhancing: Develop and refine our core backend systems, the very heart of our car parking solutions, impacting both B2B and B2C users.
• Streamline Deployment: Enhance and optimize CI/CD pipelines for both backend and IoT systems, ensuring a seamless, fully automated workflow that reliably delivers high-quality code to production with speed and confidence.
• Elevating Monitoring: Enhance our monitoring capabilities with Datadog, gaining deeper insights and proactively ensuring system health.
• Scaling for Impact: Contribute to scaling our systems to efficiently manage and operate thousands of parking lots.
• Championing Engineering Excellence: Play a key role in shaping our engineering culture, advocating for modern software engineering practices, clean code, robust testing, and efficient solutions.

Technologies We Work With: We embrace modern, cutting-edge technologies to build robust and scalable solutions.

• Backend: Event-driven microservices in Python and NodeJS (NestJS).
• Frontend: Monorepo powered by Turbo, pnpm, changesets, and Storybook, primarily using Vue.js.
• Frameworks/Libraries: Adoption of TypeScript, NestJS, BullMQ, and Prisma for backends in an opinionated monorepo approach.
• Databases: Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, S3.
• Orchestration & CI/CD: We manage our container orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS), using Keda and Karpenter for dynamic autoscaling. Our CI/CD is powered by GitLab.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform for AWS provisioning.
• Serverless: Leveraging AWS Lambda and the Serverless framework for high-throughput endpoints.

Work Setup:

• Hours: 40 hours per week (based on trust).
• Home Office Policy: Enjoy a hybrid model with 3 days in the office / 2 days remote.
• Contract: A permanent contract for long-term stability.
• Location: Our modern office in Munich, a vibrant city in the heart of Bavaria.

What We Offer: We believe in supporting our team with an environment that fosters growth, well-being, and a great work-life balance.

• Your Ideal Setup: MacBook (M4 Pro, 48GB Ram) and a 37-inch curved screen.
• Dynamic Culture: Enjoy a true startup atmosphere with flat hierarchies, agile teams, and a diverse, international group of colleagues.
• Flexibility: Benefit from flexible working hours and the option to work from home or our state-of-the-art Munich office with standing desks.
• Competitive Compensation: A strong competitive salary that recognizes your expertise.
• Future Planning: A solid company pension plan.
• Foodie Perks: Daily meal allowance, weekly free team lunch, a well-stocked cereal bar, and complimentary drinks.
• Health & Wellness: Job bike program and access to premium sports and fitness facilities via EGYM Wellpass or Urban Sports Club membership across Germany.
• Continuous Growth: Ample professional development opportunities to sharpen your skills.
• Language Support: German language learni