Senior Backend Engineer (f/m/d) - NodeJs/Kotlin

Join us at SAP LeanIX as a Senior Backend Software Engineer and become integral to our cross-functional Engineering teams. As a key team member, you will contribute individually and support your team with a customer-centric approach and a drive to own product capabilities and technical components across our front and backends.
We are only accepting applications from candidates based in Germany.
As part of the Adoption & Collaboration Tribe at SAP LeanIX, our team is driving innovation in customer success by empowering organizations to effectively adopt and harness the full potential of SAP LeanIX as a collaboration tool for Enterprise Architecture. Our dedication lies in crafting a development environment that is seamless, intuitive, and efficient. We want to inspire our customers to achieve their architecture goals through effortless navigation and streamlined processes.

Why SAP LeanIX?

• Empowering Work Environment: We've invested heavily in creating an environment that fosters growth and provides open access to leadership, transparent communication, and opportunities for personal development.
• Complex Engineering Challenges: We're tackling complicated engineering problems at a large scale, requiring creativity and substantial engineering expertise.
• Empowered Product Teams: You're not just executing a roadmap but solving real problems. We value and reward outcomes, not just output.
• Ownership and Autonomy: We build it, we run it! We ensure our customers can rely on our features. This means we value resilience, automation, and proactive problem-solving.
• Continuous Improvement: We prioritize ongoing learning, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. We strive to improve our products by continuously validating and measuring user interactions.
• Work-Life Balance: We believe a well-rested and well-rounded individual makes the best engineer. We support remote or on-site work and offer flexible working hours to adapt your job to your life.

What You'll Do

• Implement backend services with Kotlin and Node.js
• Continuously improve our backend services, CI/CD pipelines, and codebases.
• Take ownership and drive topics that align with your passion and our product vision.
• Collaborate with passionate colleagues eager to share knowledge and learn from you.

Our Tech Stack

• Micro Services with Java and Kotlin with Spring Boot, and Node.js with NestJS
• Micro frontends with Angular (TypeScript, NgRx, Jest, Nx, Tailwind)
• Kubernetes & Docker
• PostgreSQL databases
• Using API technologies such as GraphQL and REST
• Modern CI/CD toolchains, e.g., Github Actions
• Monitoring & Alerting, e.g., Instana
• Product Usage Tracking, e.g., Amplitude

Who We're Looking For

We seek an engineer who is customer-oriented and enjoys

• Customer-oriented mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills for effective collaboration with team members, stakeholders, and customers.
• Shipping code daily.
• Providing helpful feedback through code reviews.
• Writing effective tests.
• Taking ownership and driving topics.
• Building reusable user interfaces & scalable backends.

Additional Requirements:

• 4+ years of relevant work experience
• Expert Knowledge in Kotlin/Java or Node.js backend engineering
• In-depth knowledge of Spring Boot or NestJS and its ecosystems
• Understanding of software design principles, such as SOLID, and experience applying them to real-world projects
• Experience with Azure is a plus
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines is a plus
• Experience with Angular is a plus
• Experience with building and running scalable backend services

• Open communication style

  SAP LeanIX is a market leader for enterprise architecture management (EAM), driving the modernization of IT landscapes and continuous business transformation. Its software-as-a-service solutions empower organizations to create transparency, enabling them to visualize, assess and manage the transition towards their target IT architecture. By offering a data-driven and automated approach enhanced with AI, SAP LeanIX helps organizations make sound decisions and collaborate more effectively. SAP LeanIX serves over 1.400 companies globally across various industries, including more than 10% of the Fortune 500 and half of the German DAX 40. Headquartered in Bonn, and offices in Munich and Berlin (Germany), SAP LeanIX also has a strong international presence with offices in Boston (USA), London (UK), Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Ljubljana (Slovenia). In November 2023, LeanIX became part of SAP. For more information, visit . Your application information might be therefore shared across both SAP and SAP LeanIX recruiting and hiring teams.

SAP LeanIX is not just a product, in fact it‘s a great place to work. Colleagues (700+) from dozens of countries jointly make our vision reality. We believe in transparent communication, personal development, diverse workforce, innovation by creating ideas that prove useful and that our world-class team deserves the best software stack money can buy.

At SAP LeanIX we have a Hybrid Work Mode which means you work remotely from your home office and work from one of our offices. SAP LeanIX teams and team members decide together on the work mode which suits them best. Next to that, we have great benefits for you,

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SAP LeanIX is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is vital to driving the growth and success of our company. If you need an equitable interview process alternative, please let our team know at [email protected]. You will be treated with the utmost respect and confidentiality.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment based on experience, qualifications, and competencies. SAP LeanIX will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, belief, political affiliation, union membership, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, genetic information, creed, citizenship, disability, protected veteran or marital status, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.