Software Engineer Integrations (mfd)

Are you ready to be a technology leader in the SaaS space Join epilot!

For this role were seeking a Sofware Engineer who loves building robust production-grade integrations between epilot and our customers IT landscapes.

epilot is building a SaaS product to sell complex products online focusing on solving ecommerce in the rapidly transforming energy market. Our mission: Make selling complex energy products as easy as selling a pair of shoes online.

As a Software Engineer - Integrations at epilot youll be a key driver of this mission by ensuring that epilot plugs seamlessly into ERPs CRMs billing systems and other tools used by our customers reliably securely and at scale.

Our engineering culture is shaped by a few core principles:

• Freedom & responsibility we hire smart people we trust. We operate by principles and expect our teams to cultivate a strategic mindset.

• You build it you run it we live the DevOps principle. You own your services in production.

• Show dont tell we deliver working software early and frequently to create fast feedback loops.

• API first before we write a single line of code we design APIs that can be used by any internal or external team.

Does this sound like an environment you want to work in Then you might be the right person to be a Product Integrations Engineer at epilot!

Check out our promise to you:

What awaits you

As a Software Engineer - Integrations at epilot youll go far beyond just moving data from A to B. Youll own mission-critical integrations and help shape a growing portfolio of standard integrations for the energy market. You will:

• Build and run production-grade integrations

  • Design implement and operate integrations between epilot and customer systems (e.g. ERP CRM billing).

  • Help epilot build and evolve a portfolio of high-quality reusable standard integrations for the energy space.

• Lead customer-specific integration projects

  • Youll play a central role in customer onboarding and migration acting as the technical expert in integration setup design and delivery.

  • Collaborate closely with project managers product and customer success to bring integrations live quickly and reliably.

  • Be the go-to person for customizing or extending our standard marketplace integrations to meet real-world customer needs.

• Own stability monitoring and SLAs

  • Focus on robustness observability and performance of integrations.

  • Set up and maintain monitoring logging alerting and error-handling so integrations are super solid and meet agreed SLAs.

• Handle complex data flows

  • Implement and optimize large-scale data imports and exports (scripts/notebooks ETL-like logic).

  • Ensure data quality integrity and resiliency across distributed systems.

• Work mostly on backend cloud & architecture

  • Work primarily with serverless AWS microservices APIs and event-driven systems.

  • Occasionally touch frontend if needed to support integration workflows or internal tooling.

• Use AI as a force multiplier

  • Use modern AI code agents (e.g. Claude Code OpenAI code models) to speed up development refactoring debugging and documentation.

  • Help define best practices for AI-assisted development within epilot.

• Collaborate in a cross-functional product-driven environment

  • Partner with Product Management and Design from ideation to delivery to shape integration features and flows.

  • Work in an agile setup with other backend and full-stack engineers.
    

Learn more about our architecture and tech stack here: Introduction to epilot epilot dev center

What you bring

Were looking for a Product-Minded Engineer who resonates with our values and has the following skills and mindset:
Customer-facing confidence:

• You enjoy being part of external-facing project teams and feel comfortable discussing technical concepts with customers and partners especially in German when relevant.

Product & customer mindset

• You care about delivering value to customers not just shipping code.

• You understand integrations as product building blocks: reusable documented scalable.

• Youre comfortable discussing trade-offs with product customer teams and partners.

Technical expertise (Backend / Integrations)

• Solid hands-on experience with TypeScript/JavaScript or a similar backend language.

• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs or GraphQL services.

• Familiarity with microservices/serverless architectures and public cloud platforms ideally AWS.

• Experience with integration patterns and tooling (e.g. webhooks message queues ETL/data pipelines middleware API gateways).

• Basic understanding of application & cloud security (auth authorization secrets management least privilege secure data handling).

• Comfort with data transformations and migrations (CSV/JSON/XML mapping validation reconciliation).

AI-assisted development

• Hands-on experience using modern AI code agents such as Claude Code or OpenAI Codex/code models as part of your daily work (for implementation debugging refactoring tests etc.).

• Curiosity to push whats possible with AI-assisted engineering while keeping quality and maintainability high.

Ways of working

• Ownership mentality: You take initiative drive integrations end-to-end and feel responsible for stability in production.

• Entrepreneurial spirit: You think like a business owner and understand how stable integrations impact customer success and revenue.

• Problem solver: You enjoy digging into complex integration edge cases and turning them into clean maintainable solutions.

• Collaborative mindset: Youre a team player who can communicate clearly with engineers product and customer-facing teams.

• Agile know-how: Youre familiar with Scrum Kanban or XP and know how to apply agile practices in real projects.

Language skills

• Good English skills are required (our main working language).

• German-speaking is a strong plus (B2) as youll often discuss integration architectures directly with German-speaking customers in the energy sector.

What we offer you

At epilot we believe in rewarding performance fostering growth and creating an environment where youll thrive:

• Impactful work: Help shape the integration backbone of a product thats reshaping the energy sector.

• Startup mentality: Dynamic atmosphere flat hierarchies open communication.

• Flexibility: Work remotely or from our centrally located office in Cologne with flexible working hours.

• Growth opportunities: Your career can grow as fast as we do. Learn experiment and embrace a Fail Fast and Often mentality.

• Competitive compensation: We take your desired salary seriously and value performance.

• Team spirit: Regular events like summer parties company breakfasts and our annual epilot summit with co-epilots worldwide.

• Transparency & openness: Everything is open for discussion in our inclusive and supportive culture.
  

We are looking forward to your application!

P.S.: If you want to learn more about the application process please read Ekas blog article: Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany