Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d)

at  KuehneNagel

As one of the world’s leading logistics companies, we have opened a new IT Centre in Porto, Portugal. We aim to accelerate digital technologies for our global customers, focusing on developing new mission-critical products, e-solutions, and new digital services. Join our fascinating and international working environment and become part of the team responsible for creating our digital logistics processes in line with the Kuehne+Nagel strategy.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

• You are confident in at least one major programming language and not afraid of working in a polyglot application landscape (Java experience preferred);
• You naturally apply software craftsmanship principles like Test Driven Development or Clean Code in your daily work;
• You embrace DevOps culture (“You build it, you run it.”) and Infrastructure as Code (Kubernetes and Helm welcome);
• You have experience running your applications on Kubernetes in a cloud environment (AWS welcome);
• You provide knowledge in one major messaging technology (Apache Kafka welcome) and event-driven architectures;
• You have experience with message specification formats (like ProtoBuff / JSON Schema or Avro) and principles like API First (AsyncAPI welcome);
• Collaborative work in international teams inspires you.

YOUR ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d) to join our agile and international team. In this role, you will shape the new messaging ecosystem while being part of a global team of Software Engineers, Architects, and DevOps.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will drive and nurture the messaging domain within the new IT ecosystem KNITE – you are joining us in an evolving state and have a lot of space to influence, shape, and design;
• You will connect over 200 applications in the cloud and orchestrate their interconnectivity using Apache Kafka and its ecosystem;
• You will improve the Messaging and Event Platform (Kafka and ecosystem) by developing new features that bring value to our customers. You will support the application teams as a “Customer Solution Architect” during their adoption of the new platform by consulting or co-building their integrations;
• You will operate the platform and take over on-call duties;
• You will be defining guidelines and developing tools to enable developers to make good use of the Messaging and Event Platform following modern event-driven patterns;
• You will apply and evangelize our messaging guidelines & best practices to other teams at a technical level, ensuring they comply and take maximum advantage of the Messaging and Event Platform;
• You will establish and facilitate the implementation of standards for messaging.