Senior/Lead Backend Engineer Java/Kotlin

Senior/Lead Backend Engineer Java/Kotlin (m/f/d) 

Permanent position, full-time · Europe (remote)

About Everfield

Everfield buys, builds, and grows European vertical market and specialist software companies, providing them with the tools they need to move to the next level. Our mission is to foster ambition, fuel growth, and unlock opportunities for Europe’s software ecosystem.

Companies in the Everfield ecosystem follow a decentralised model, maintaining their team, brand, and offices, while focusing on what they do best - building products and supporting customers. Everfield provides support in talent acquisition, HR, and a team of experts in building and growing European B2B SaaS companies consult on financial and operational topics from. Founded in 2022, Everfield has an ecosystem presence in 7 countries, and growing.

About ParkHere

ParkHere, part of the Everfield ecosystem, is a high-tech company, which provides holistic parking solutions and mobility concepts for corporates and the real estate industry. Consisting of IoT hardware, software products, and mobile apps, ParkHere helps to optimize and digitalize parking spaces and make them more profitable. The unique solutions for efficient and sustainable mobility are built for real estate managers and parking operators, who are willing to improve the parking situation and make it more efficient. Companies such as Telefónica, Henkel, IONOS, and Giesecke + Devrient already rely on the individually configurable complete solution and expert knowledge of ParkHere.

ParkHere ist part ov Everfield since 2024. The team is located in Munich, Germany.

ParkHere is looking for a high skilled Senior/Lead Backend Engineer Java/Kotlin (m/f/d) with expertise in Kotlin and Java to join our agile development team.
You will take ownership of backend architecture and development, mentor a team of engineers, and work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions. While backend skills are paramount, familiarity with front-end technologies is a bonus and can enhance collaboration with UI teams.

Our Tech-Stack:

What you will do:

• Participate in the full software development cycle in a multi-national team

• Work on the backend side on a Serverless solution

• Develop high quality software in a fast-paced environment for thousands of users

• Optimize application performance, scalability, and security

• Together with the team you drive architectural decisions and improve our AWS infrastructure, you take full ownership of our cloud infrastructure in the long term

• Live a culture of sharing knowledge, best practices and standards as well as promoting cooperation and communication within our cross-functional team

• Bring your own experience and ideas to our product, tech-stack to promote growth within the team.

What we are looking for: 

• Very good communication skills and proficient English

• 4+ years of experience in Backend Development with Kotlin/Java

• Experience designing and implementing serverless applications using Lambda and API Gateway

• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

• Familiarity with Event-driven architecture

• Proficient in creating and managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

• Experience in designing and refactoring micro-service architectures

• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines (we use Gitlab) 

• Experience with monitoring tools (we use DataDog)

• Proactive and hands-on mentality, you like working in agile teams

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with mobile and front-end frameworks, as React, Typescript and Expo

• Knowledge of security best practices (e.g., OAuth, OpenID, JWT, ISO27001).

What we offer:

• Exciting scale-up environment 

• State of the art tech stack (AWS Serverless, Expo, Gitlab, Terraform)

• Your work immediately impacts the product and the customers

• Access to various educational platforms to keep always up to date with the latest technologies

• Choose your own hardware

• A collaborative and inclusive company culture

• You can work from home, from our office or both but we expect that you are also able to come to special events (e.g. team events) to our headquarter in Munich

• Joint activities in the team (e.g. team lunch, after work events, OKR planning events, company parties)

• Subsidized Urban Sports membership, Jobrad subscription

Recruitment process: 

Here’s what you can expect and who you will speak to during the recruitment process.

• First interview with the Talent Acquisition Lead, Maria (0.5h)

• Second interview with the Hiring Manager, Massimiliano and HR Lead, Lena (0.5h)

• Case Study

• Third technical interview with software developers from ParkHere (1.5h)

• Final interview with Software Developer & Product Team as well as Co-CEO, Clemens and Head of IoT, Jakob (1h)

We look forward to receiving your application!