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Senior Backend & Platform Engineer

Job

  • Level
    Senior
  • Job Field
    IT, DevOps, Back End
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Location
    Cologne
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you will develop powerful backend services using Kotlin and Spring Boot, design modern APIs, build a cloud-native platform on AWS, and automate development and operational processes with AI-driven tools.

    Job Technologies

    Your role in the team

    • Are you looking for a mission with real entrepreneurial responsibility and high strategic impact? In this hybrid role of Backend Development and Operations Engineering, you are our playmaker.
    • You are responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining a lean, reliable backend and integration framework for our modern, cloud-native digital platform.
    • At the same time, you establish forward-looking agentic software engineering within the team.
    • With your work and the smart, productive use of AI agents, you lay the crucial foundation for an exciting energy experience of the future - event-driven, stable, and production-ready.
    • You develop high-performance and scalable backend services with Kotlin and Spring Boot.
    • You design and implement modern APIs and integrations with REST, GraphQL, and OpenAPI.
    • You are shaping the expansion of our cloud-native platform on AWS and driving its further development.
    • You automate infrastructure, deployments, and operational processes with GitLab CI/CD and OpenTofu.
    • You utilize modern coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or comparable tools to elevate development, testing, and automation to a new level.
    • You, together with the team, establish AI-Native Engineering Practices and actively shape the future of software development.
    • You work closely with Product Management, Architecture, and Operations in an agile and interdisciplinary environment.

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    Our expectations of you

    Qualifications

    • Solid knowledge of Kotlin and Spring Boot.
    • Proficient in CI/CD pipelines as well as Infrastructure as Code.
    • Good knowledge of modern API and integration standards, especially REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI, and OAuth 2.0.
    • An AI-native mindset and the motivation to fundamentally advance software development through the targeted use of AI.
    • A high level of ownership, pragmatism, and quality awareness.
    • Very good knowledge of German and English.

    Experience

    • Several years of experience in the development and operation of modern backend systems.
    • Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures.
    • Practical experience with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or comparable AI-powered development tools.

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    What we offer

    • We have been recognized by Great Place to Work as an attractive employer and offer you a dynamic, exciting, and flexible work environment where something develops every day.
    • Your ideas are important to us; they are heard and implemented.
    • A highly motivated team with flat hierarchies and short communication channels.
    • A workplace in the heart of Cologne and the opportunity for hybrid work.
    • A lot of fun at work and in the team.
    • Performance-based pay and 30 days of vacation per year.
    • Subsidy for the job ticket and free parking.

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    Topics You Will Work On

    Job Locations

    • Location Cologne

      Nordrhein-Westfalen

      Germany

    About Your Employer

    E Wie Einfach Gmbh

    E Wie Einfach Gmbh

    Passende Produkte, smarte Dienstleistungen, bequemer Service: Wir haben uns das Ziel gesetzt, die Energieversorgung für unsere Kunden so einfach wie möglich zu machen. Dafür setzen wir auf Digitalisierung, Seite, agiles Arbeiten – und Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die neue Ideen einbringen und flache Hierarchien schätzen.

    Description

  • Founding Year
    2007
  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Power Sector, Economy
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    Senior Backend & Platform Engineer

    Location
    Cologne
    Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
    Diversity
    Open for all genders

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