Staff Software Engineer I

Join our team and youll be responsible for building a state-of-the-art platform that powers integrations with our partners and streamlines flow of data across many companies. 

Working in the Feeds domain you will design and evolve software that integrate complex dependencies ensure reliability and deliver high-quality solutions both to our internal and external customers. 

By joining as a Staff Engineer youll be the key person leading technology and a role model for this area. 

 

Your responsibilities: 

• Architectural leadership design and evolve scalable resilient system architectures using DDD; own key architectural decisions and manage system dependencies and integrations. 

• Data-driven insight & decision-making provide technical trade-off analysis evaluate performance scalability and cost and track system health and technical debt with meaningful metrics. 

• Cross-functional collaboration work closely with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to align technical roadmaps with business goals and select appropriate tools and frameworks. 

• Mentorship & technical excellence  mentor engineers lead design and code reviews and promote best practices analytical thinking and continuous improvement 

• Execution & reliability oversee critical systems and APIs drive cloud and container optimization ensure dependency resilience and maintain high quality through structured testing strategies. Ability to support team hands-on if required. 

Qualifications :

• Java expertise expert-level Java (17) deep understanding of JVM internals concurrency performance tuning memory management and strong knowledge of DDD design patterns and functional programming. 

• Spring & reactive frameworks advanced experience with Spring Boot Spring Cloud and reactive programming models. 

• Event-driven architectures (Kafka) deep knowledge of Kafka internals fault-tolerant event-driven design stream processing schema management and delivery semantics (ordering idempotency exactly-once). 

• Cloud & container platforms (AWS) strong proficiency with core AWS services and hands-on experience with Docker Kubernetes and ECS/EKS. 

• Infrastructure scaling & observability experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation) system scaling strategies and modern observability tools (CloudWatch OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana). Deep expertise in relational database design and performance tuning with hands-on experience in PostgreSQL and/or MySQL. 

Additional Information :

Were a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when youre with us. Because your job shouldnt take over your life it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• Premium medical and dental care
• Life insurance
• Flex Benefits - Worksmile Cafeteria System (Multisport vouchers tickets etc.)
• Employee Referral Program
• Hackathons Knowledge Sharing Hours In-house projects
• Tech and sport communities
• Events and integration parties
• Charity initiatives 2 extra volunteer days
• English/German classes
• Game room and chillout zone

Our commitment
Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company so we want to recruit develop and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone regardless of background gender identity sexual orientation disability status ethnicity belief age family or parental status and any other characteristic.

Remote Work :

No