Staff Backend Engineer (f/m/d) - Java

Our mission as a team is to make onboarding to our product a seamless and enjoyable experience for new customers.

High-performing teams thrive on the triangle of clear goals and focus, team happiness, and the ability to deliver with speed. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our established team, dedicated to creating an environment that fosters swift, continuous, and enjoyable delivery of high-value features. As the most senior member of the team, you will lead architectural decisions, set development guidelines, and ensure the optimal performance of our services.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE? Well, there are a number of reasons:

• We're on a strong growth trajectory in terms of ARR and team size while scaling in a sustainable and profitable way, making us successful in even challenging economical phases.
• Our products are industry-leading with happy customers and a NPS of 70. Our culture of empowered product teams means we solve problems instead of implementing features. We drive our efforts through close contact with our customers and measuring how they use our products.
• We build it, we run it. We ensure customers can rely on resilient and performant products. We stay ahead of trouble through a high degree of automation, alerting, SRE practises and On-Call. There is no dedicated operations department in place at LeanIX.
• We prioritize continuous improvement, collaboration and knowledge sharing. We constantly iterate on our engineering practices and skills to build a software architecture that supports fun at work and long term success of the business.
• We value open access to leadership, transparency and personal development. We successfully enabled many software engineers to grow along with the company into engineering manager or technical lead positions. You’ll continue this success story while we offer you opportunities to grow.
• We value a healthy life balance and our employees make room for interests and relations outside of their job. We offer a hybrid working environment, providing a high grade of flexibility while meeting colleagues in one of our offices from time to time.

WHAT IS WAITING FOR YOU?

• partner with product teams, learn from them and understand the challenges they face, e.g. by embedding into teams
• research and engineer approaches to improve developer satisfaction and increase developer velocity
• spanning the entire process of designing, building, testing, deploying, releasing, and monitoring
• areas cover release task automation, testing automation (Performance, end2end, etc.)
• provide and promote TDD, best practices, new tools, trainings as enablement
• lead cross-team and -tribe initiatives
• technical mentor for the team, help improve teams engineering culture, e.g. defining best practices, tech debt, pair programming, etc
• Mentor and coach other engineers in our tribe

WHAT IS OUR TECH STACK?

• Infrastructure based on Azure ecosystem
• Kubernetes & Docker
• Micro-services written in Kotlin and Java
• Micro-frontend written in Angular
• API technologies such as GraphQL and REST
• Event-driven architecture
• Modern CI/CD toolchains (e.g. Github Actions, Feature Toggling) allowing us to ship multiple times a day
• Monitoring & Alerting, e.g. Instana
• Product Usage Tracking using Amplitude

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for someone who likes to:

• Live by our engineering values
• Solve architectural challenges and deliver customer value in a SaaS product environment
• Collaborate with Product Management & UI/UX teams as part of a customer focussed team
• Turn ambiguity of complex and fuzzy requirements into working software solutions
• Ship code daily or even more often
• Continuously learn, be proactive and curious
• Work in a fast-paced, agile environment.

You bring in the following experience:

• software engineering experience in delivering products, understand product teams, help fellow engineers to achieve efficiency
• opinionated on development processes and best practices, optimize and automate them
• (staff) leadership and mentoring experience, has been a role model for engineers
• strategic and tactical mindset, break down work in increments
• understand the value of writing technical documentation, guidelines, and standards
• Value feedback and working in a fun and professional environment

At SAP LeanIX Product and Engineering, we embrace a hybrid remote work model, which allows us the benefits of in-person collaboration along with the flexibility to work from home as needed. Therefore, we hire only within commuting distance to our hubs in Bonn, Munich, Ljubljana, Berlin, and Dresden, and we expect our employees to come to the office multiple times per week.