Backend & Platform Engineer

E Wie Einfach Gmbh

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In this role, you will develop scalable backend services using Kotlin and Spring Boot, implement modern APIs, and focus on automating deployments and infrastructure with CI/CD and AI tools.

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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 powerful 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 forward.
  • 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.

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.
  • Excellent German and English skills.

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-assisted development tools.

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.

Topics you will work on

Job locations

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  • Location Cologne
    Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

About your employer

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.

Founding year
2007
Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid
Industry
Power Sector, Economy
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Backend & Platform Engineer

E Wie Einfach Gmbh