Principal Engineer (m/f/x)

We at sevDesk
As an intuitive cloud accounting software, we empower founders, self-employed individuals, and small business owners to focus on what truly matters. Our product offers them a smart accounting tool to save time in their daily activities. As a company, we aim for excellence, continuously expand our horizons, and strive for daily improvement of our product and our daily work life. In pursuit of these goals, we rely on our strong culture, innovative spirit, and unwavering passion. In the future, we hope to count you among our dedicated team members.

Your mission
As Principal Engineer (m/f/x) at sevDesk you are going to play a pivotal role. With your pioneering mindset you are going to take ownership of the technical solutions in one of our domains and provide leadership and guidance in technical decision-making processes for the Engineering Management.

Here's how you'll make an impact:

• You are going to be accountable for the domain's architecture, ensuring it seamlessly integrates with sevDesk's overall technology framework by employing state-of-the-art methodologies.

• You are going to provide guidance and advice to the engineering director and engineering manager, assuming a leadership and consultative role in their decision-making processes.

• You are going to collaborate with the chief architect, senior tech management, and the CTO to contribute to the overall architecture and tech strategy at sevDesk, including high-level technical decisions.

• You are going to train, mentor, and coach senior engineers at sevDesk as well as promoting knowledge sharing and skill development within the team.

• You are going to tackle software problems with visible risks, roadblocks, and constraints, such as legacy dependencies, data quality, compliance, architecture, or technology limitations.

• You are going to possess an in-depth understanding of sevDesk's core product and architecture, acting as an ambassador for software solutions and offering support and mentorship to colleagues.

Your Qualifications / To excel in this role, you should possess:

• You have 10+ years of relevant experience in software engineering with a proven track record and expert-level knowledge in specific technologies, including Kotlin, Spring, and React.js.

• You are experienced with modern software architecture patterns and familiar with DevOps practices such as YBIYRI, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and 24/7 operations.

• You have the ability to lead the technical transition of our old PHP backend monolith into the new tech stack for the domain.

• You are commited to advocate security best practices across the domain. You will also bring the ability to mentor other developers, host knowledge-sharing sessions, and act as an advocate for best tech practices, such as CI/CD, TDD, BDD, DDD, Design Patterns.

• You are experienced with cloud-native architectures, with a preference for AWS (Amazon Web Services).

• You have an agile mindset and the ability to balance business, individual, and team needs, providing a holistic approach to problem-solving and decision-making. Moreover, you posses strong verbal and written communication skills in English and German

Our TechStack:

Kotlin | Spring Boot | JavaScript/TypeScript | React | REST | Docker | SQL | AWS | Terraform