Senior Software Engineer KotlinJava (All Genders)

At zooplus were building the technology behind one of Europes largest online pet platforms. As a Senior Software Engineer youll join the team responsible for zooplus Club our membership and loyalty platform that serves millions of customers across more than 25 European markets.

Youll work in a cross-functional Agile team to design build and operate scalable backend services that power customer loyalty rewards and engagement. Working closely with Product Managers Designers and fellow engineers youll help shape technical solutions that deliver real business impact while contributing to a modern cloud-native platform.

If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges taking ownership from design to production and working with modern backend technologies wed love to hear from you.

What youll do

• Design build and maintain scalable backend services using Kotlin
• Develop APIs event-driven services and microservices that power our loyalty platform
• Own features throughout the full software development lifecyclefrom technical design and implementation to deployment and production support
• Contribute to the evolution of our event-driven architecture and cloud-native platform
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions
• Write clean well-tested maintainable code and participate in code reviews and pair programming
• Monitor troubleshoot and continuously improve application performance reliability and scalability
• Help shape engineering best practices tooling and development processes
• Embrace a DevOps culture where teams build deploy and operate the services they own

Our technology stack

• Kotlin
• Java
• React
• Microservices & Event-Driven Architecture
• AWS
• Docker & Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL Oracle & Redis
• Terraform
• Jenkins CI/CD
• Prometheus & Grafana
• Elasticsearch & Kibana
• Git

Qualifications :

What youll bring

• Significant commercial experience building backend applications using Kotlin or Java
• Experience designing and developing scalable microservices and distributed systems
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices clean code and testing principles
• Experience building REST APIs and backend services
• Good knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL or Oracle
• Experience working in Agile development teams
• Familiarity with cloud platforms containerisation and CI/CD pipelines
• A collaborative growth-oriented mindset with a willingness to learn React contribute across the stack and support teammates by wearing different hats when needed
• Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative and proactive mindset
• Comfortable taking ownership of solutions throughout their lifecycle
• Professional proficiency in English

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS services
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Experience working with event-driven architectures

Additional Information :

Headquartered in Munich with offices across Madrid Krakow Wroclaw London and Vienna we collaborate because we genuinely love working together - so youll be at the heart of an incredible multinational team. We trust each other to get the job done which means youll benefit from hybrid working spending 60% of your time in the office and 40% at home. Theres an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.

Add to that development opportunities that help you to shape your own career path excellent training and support wellbeing offers subsidised transport or bike leasing plus 20% discount across all our products and youll begin to get a sense of what sets us apart. Find out more about the specific benefits at your local office in our blog posts.

A note on compensation: We believe in being transparent about salary ranges. The range shown reflects the full scope that the role can grow into over time depending on experience skills and impact. Most offers are positioned around the midpoint of the range ensuring a fair and consistent approach across our teams.

At zooplus we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential. We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time