Zuhlke Engineering

Overview of job

Thrive in an environment where you can express your passion and enthusiasm for software development and be inspired by your colleagues’ enthusiasm. As a senior Java backend software engineer, you will cooperate with interdisciplinary teams in projects and experience how technology and team spirit unite to create innovative solutions.

Your job will involve working closely with clients to develop, test, and ship software that meets their needs. You will efficiently and competently solve complex software challenges. Continuous further development and active knowledge exchange mean that you will be working with the latest methods and tools to stay up to date with the latest trends.

Our reputation is fundamental to our business, so our culture emphasizes quality, reliability, and respect. We value learning new technologies and skills, thus, you will get a generous budget to attend conferences, participate in certified courses, and our annual technical camp is a lot of fun. 

At Zühlke, we encourage a growth mindset and support the success of our employees with continuous training and coaching to further your career, your skills, and your personality. We regularly exchange ideas, give each other feedback, and learn from one another. From this, you'll gather that we communicate openly with each other, assess ourselves honestly and love working in diverse, cross-functional teams to achieve impressive results together.

Added to this is an attractive benefits package and a shared passion to give our best every day.

• Permanent labor contracts, full insurance contribution from Day 1
• 13 month salary
• Regional onboarding program with attractive onboarding welcome kit
• Hybrid working model, 3 days in office per week 
• 18 days annual leaves and fully paid sick leaves
• New Macbook Pro M1, Mouse and Keyboard provided
• Global profit sharing scheme
• Private health insurance scheme for you and your family
• Unique social & team building events locally and abroad

• You have at least 3 years of professional experience using Java stack 
• You have experience building distributed solutions using relational and NoSQL databases and popular message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, SQS  
• You understand the value of testing and practice Test Driven Development to deliver high quality software 
• You have professional experience with cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure) and containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)  
• You understand the value of DevOps practices and can apply them in the software development lifecycle (Jenkins, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps etc) 
• You have professional experience working in an agile development environment and ideally have Scrum certification (e.g. Scrum Developer, Scrum Master) 
• You can contribute to technical decisions based on your expertise and client requirements 
• You have a degree in computer science or an equivalent related field (bachelor / master) 
• You are a strong communicator in English and can confidently collaborate with technical and business stakeholders