Lead Software Engineer

Peter Park System GmbH

Job

In this role, you will define the technical architecture of systems, collaborate closely with Product and Design, and take responsibility for system optimization and security to create innovative software solutions.

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Your role in the team

  • Drive the Technical Vision: Define and evolve the architecture of the systems your team owns, ensuring they are scalable, secure and aligned with long-term product strategy.
  • Align Engineering with Strategy: Act as a technical counterpart to product and business stakeholders, translating company objectives into engineering initiatives with measurable impact.
  • Shape the Product: Work closely with Product and Design to improve what we build, and ship features end to end, from API to UI, that create real value for our customers.
  • Own Delivery End to End: Take accountability for projects from concept to production and beyond, defining clear scope and milestones, and communicating delivery risks early while maintaining reliability and quality.
  • Champion Engineering Excellence: Set the bar for clean, performant and maintainable code; foster a culture of high standards and technical curiosity.
  • Technical Leadership & Mentoring: Guide engineers through mentorship, coaching and clear technical direction to grow the team's capabilities and autonomy.
  • Elevate Operational Maturity: Monitor and continuously improve the performance of your systems; lead improvements to observability, CI/CD and developer workflows, ensuring systems are resilient and teams can ship confidently.
  • Embed Security by Design: Take responsibility for the security posture of your systems, ensuring they meet best practices and compliance from the ground up.
  • Be a Force for Innovation: Stay ahead of trends and emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development, and bring them into the department; drive continuous improvement in how we build, scale, and operate our systems.

Our expectations of you

Qualifications

  • Cloud Expertise: Solid understanding of AWS (or a comparable provider) and cloud architecture.
  • Security & Networking: Security Awareness: Good understanding of security best practices in software and the cloud.
  • Excellent Communication: Strong English communication skills (C1+) and the ability to collaborate across teams. German proficiency is not required.

Experience

  • Real Seniority: Not defined by years of experience, but by a drive for continuous improvement, direct business impact, and ownership. You’ve worked at a senior or lead level and owned production systems end to end.
  • Technical Leadership: Proven experience guiding engineers through mentoring, code reviews and clear technical direction.
  • Strong Engineering Foundation: Strong proficiency in at least one of TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or C++, and hands-on experience with the corresponding frameworks, such as NestJS, Fastify, FastAPI, or Flask, or Vue.js on the frontend.
  • End-to-end mindset: Experience shipping product features across the stack, with a solid understanding of both backend concerns (APIs, data models, services, performance) and frontend concerns (UI, usability).
  • CI/CD: Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and containers; experience with Kubernetes or Terraform is a plus.
  • High-Throughput Systems: Experience building and operating high-traffic systems in production.
  • Monitoring & Observability: Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog.
  • Agile & Fast-Paced Environments: Experience in agile teams in dynamic, fast-growing tech environments.

What we offer

  • 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.

Benefits

Health, fitness & fun

Work-Life-Integration

Topics you will work on

Job locations

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  • Location Munich
    Bayern, Germany

About your employer

Peter Park System GmbH, based in Munich, provides a digital platform for barrier-free parking management. The company utilizes AI-driven technologies to centrally manage parking spaces and integrate flexible payment options. With a focus on mobility solutions, it transforms traditional parking systems through modular IoT solutions.

Company type
Startup
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid
Industry
Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Lead Software Engineer

Peter Park System GmbH