Backend Engineer

fluid

You will be working on fluid, our brand that builds the Operating System for Intellectual Property.

Your mission

You will be working with either of our teams:

• Agile delivery teams work closely with customers and the product management to build long lasting solutions that help them elegantly solve their problems.
• Product teams address deep systemic issues and push new products that set benchmarks in usability and performance by using a variety of frameworks and APIs.
• Infrastructure and support teams maintain instances for our SaaS-customers who depend on them for their day to day operations. The focus here is on release management, data migration, managing CI/CD pipelines and operations.

Specifically you will work on:

• Microservices that are owned by your team and focus on a clear domain, providing a dedicated solution to our customers - like the noventive customer portal or the IP management services.
• Designing the application architecture and implementation based on business requirements, strategy and priorities.
• Promote software engineering best practices via code reviews, building internal tools and documentation.
• Optimize code for performance, stability and maintainability.
• Work closely with product managers, content creators and QA to own your solution from development to production.

Your profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Ideally 2 - 4 years of professional experience.
• Strong programming skills with one or more of the following programming languages: Python and/or Java.
• Proficiency with major full-stack web frameworks, such as Spring Boot or Django.
• Good unit testing and integration testing practices.
• Expert knowledge of REST APIs.
• Experience with messaging & message queue architectures.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Agile / SCRUM software development process experience.
• Deep understanding of common data structures and relational database design.
• Solid German or English skills.
• You should love writing clean code and strive to solve complex engineering problems.
• You should be passionate about deeply understanding how things work and how to make them better.
• You should be a highly skilled engineer, with a proven track record of customer and/or hobby projects that showcase your individual skills.

Why us?

noventive is redefining the current working modes of a complete industry, by using state-of-the-art engineering principles and technologies. To support our rapid development, we are constantly seeking for new talents to join our Data & Technology team.

It is important for us, to work on our products & services as a unified international team and to provide a workplace that fits into the dynamic lives of each of our team members. Therefore we focus on:

• Modern, motivating company culture with flat hierarchies  
• Flexible working times (we don't track hours, we track delivery)
• Free choice of work location (at our office in Munich or flexible from home)
• Great personal development potentials and possibilities for co-creation