Staff Software Engineer (f/m/d)
📍 Location: Berlin, Germany (Hybrid – up to 2 days remote per week)
🕒 Type: Permanent, Full-time
🗣️ Language: Fluent English required (German a plus)
The Company
A fast-growing technology business combining the pace and innovation of a scale-up with the backing of major global organisations.
You’ll join an international engineering team building products and services with real-world impact, with a strong focus on modern technology, collaboration and technical excellence.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead significant platform and product integration initiatives.
This is a highly technical, hands-on role where you’ll shape architecture, drive cross-team technical decisions and raise engineering standards. You’ll also play a key role in advancing AI-assisted engineering practices and helping other engineers get the most from modern AI development tools.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead the design and implementation of major platform and product integration initiatives
- Drive technical direction and contribute to the engineering roadmap
- Write and sponsor design documents and lead meaningful technical reviews
- Set high standards for code quality, architecture and engineering practices
- Mentor and influence senior engineers across the wider organisation
- Design and operate distributed, event-driven systems
- Apply patterns including CQRS, event sourcing and API gateways where appropriate
- Use strong architectural judgement to keep solutions pragmatic and avoid unnecessary complexity
- Identify database, performance and migration risks before they reach production
- Deliver production-ready, observable and maintainable code
- Lead substantive code reviews and identify genuine technical and design risks
- Drive complex, multi-team technical projects from design through to delivery
- Champion AI-assisted engineering and help build this capability across the team
What They’re Looking For
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Clear evidence of operating at Staff Engineer level with cross-team technical impact
- Strong experience leading significant platform-level technical work
- Strong JVM background, particularly Java and Kotlin
- Experience with Go or Node.js is beneficial
- Hands-on full-stack experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React or Angular
- Deep experience building and operating event-driven systems
- Strong production experience with Kafka
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, including idempotency, delivery guarantees, backpressure, partitioning and schema evolution
- Experience with CQRS and event sourcing, with the judgement to know when not to use them
- Experience with API gateway technologies and patterns
- Strong database knowledge across PostgreSQL and non-relational data stores
- Experience with data modelling, query performance and database migrations under load
- Proven ability to lead complex, multi-team technical initiatives
- Strong experience using AI coding tools as part of your daily engineering workflow
- Comfortable with Docker and Kubernetes
- Cloud experience, ideally Azure
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Nice to Have
- Experience with Flink or other stream-processing technologies
- Experience with Go or Node.js
- Azure experience
- German language skills
- Experience with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar platforms
Why Join?
- Work at the intersection of scale-up innovation and major enterprise backing
- Take ownership of significant platform-level technical challenges
- Have real influence over architecture and engineering standards
- Help shape how AI-assisted engineering is adopted across the organisation
- Work with an international, collaborative engineering team
- Personal development budget to support your growth
- Monthly mobility budget
- Subsidised gym membership and office lunch
- Up to 2 days working from home per week
- Regular offsites and team events
- Modern offices in Berlin and Munich
- Open, inclusive and collaborative culture
