Team Lead (Backend Engineer) for Property Management Platform (m/f/d)

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About the project:

The Partner we are hiring for is a fast-scaling PropTech Company with Offices in Munich, Germany and Cluj, Romania.

The property management sector is a huge market with more than 18.000 property managers managing over 10 million building units and being responsible for complex workflows. ​Property managers are still missing the key centerpiece to digitize their processes: a state-of-the-art, workflow-oriented, and user-friendly digital operating platform.

Some more interesting project facts

💡 The product is in live operations

💡 Document identification via OCR / information categorization / - management

💡 Banking transaction processing/payment

💡 International / cross-border team working closely together

💡 One may influence the product with creative solutions

💡 Take part in the digitalization of an old industry

💡 and many more – let's talk!

We are looking for a Team Lead/Senior Engineer who can take on a main role in bringing our product to the next level, building upon an existing MVP.

⏩ Leading and mentoring a team of developers, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

⏩ Designing (Data storage/API/architecture), planning, implementing, and delivering new features and workflows.e, API design, and testing.

⏩Designing (Data storage/API/architecture), planning, implementing, and delivering new features and workflows.

⏩ Taking a key role in collaborating with Developers, Product Owners (POs), and Customer Support to ensure continuous delivery of a high-quality product.

⏩Taking a key role in collaborating with Developers, Product Owners (POs), and Customer Support to ensure continuous delivery of a high-quality product.

⏩ Efficiently contributing to building front-end features with a standardized component system.

⏩ Overseeing and contributing to R&D topics that require ingenious solutions, such as processing invoices/OCR and matching bank transactions to processes.

⏩ Guiding the integration of new modules to speed up operations (e.g., OAuth framework/Auditing/etc.).

⏩ Championing data-driven decisions within the team and performing necessary data analysis.

⏩ Possessing a passion to understand and challenge complex workflows and translate them into functioning software.

You shall bring:

✅ 8+ years of experience as a software engineer having

✅ expertise with Java Backend development Spring or JEE

✅ experience with Frontend technologies such as React(preferred) Angular or Vue

✅ experience designing and implementing efficient SQL and NoSQL storage systems

✅ Passion for creating performant and reusable software components in a service-oriented architecture

✅ Coding best practices up your sleeves, can deliver on a personal level

and have proven record that you can develop the efficiency of the whole team

✅ Designing public grade REST APIs, writing structured documentation deciding on

component responsibilities are natural to you.

✅ Comfortable handling of CI/CD systems that you used to deliver past projects

✅ Have used BDD/TDD and can improve team practices that ensure high-quality output

✅ You are interested and passionate about making data-driven decisions and doing the necessary data analysis in this regard

✅ Passion to understand and challenge complex workflows and translate them into

functioning software

✅ You are fluent in English (cross-border team communication) and willing to work in an international team

Nice to have:

⏩ Previous experience working at a startup is a big plus

⏩ Know-how of Containers (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes / Docker swarm)

⏩ Acted in the Role of ScrumMaster, improved development processes

The general tech stack of the project is

🖥 Java

🖥 React

🖥 Microservice architecture with Kafka(-streams)

🖥 Docker-based CI/CD processes

🖥 AWS/kubernetes/terraform

We provide

💪 Assistance in setting up the project/integrating with the team

💪 Guidance while onboarding

💪 Support in any aspect of your activities

💪 Free choice of hardware

💪 Perks like private health insurance and 7card

💪 Regular team events like a week in a mountain hut

💪 Possibility to work remote (we will empower a flexible hybrid mode forever)

💪 Central working place in a big company house with lots of community space such as garden, BBQ area, and much more

💪 anything you are missing – let's talk!

Some final words

You will be joining a dynamic and crossborder project team in Cluj, working closely together with product owners, UX/UI, and a development team of 10 developers.

If you have any further questions feel free to contact us any time!

Looking forward to meeting you for a (virtual) coffee or tea ☕️