enmacc is Europe’s largest over-the-counter trading market venue for energy and environmental commodities. Our cutting-edge platform digitalises the energy trading landscape, addressing the long-standing challenges that traders have faced for decades.
Our trading platform allows market participants to execute trades with unparalleled speed, efficiency, and security. We have over 550 companies and 2200 members trading electricity, gas, Guarantees of Origin, emissions allowances and weather derivatives. Our platform attracts a vibrant network of energy suppliers, trading houses, industrial companies, and municipal utilities. By joining our platform, participants gain access to more market opportunities, boosted liquidity, and are empowered to accelerate the energy transition.
Since 2016 we have now a dedicated team of 90 talented individuals spread across Europe. We are driven by our enthusiasm for the energy sector and technology, thriving in a dynamic scale-up environment. If you share our zeal for working in a diverse, inclusive, and fast-paced environment, we invite you to submit your application below.
YOUR MISSION
A Backend Technical Lead is a software engineer responsible for guiding the backend community and alignment of the technical direction. Providing a strong technical direction involves establishing a technical vision, resolving technical disagreements, ensuring the usage of appropriate engineering practices (such as CD or automated testing) and investing in continual improvements to tooling or technical debt to assure the platform meets changing needs and requirements. With a strong collaboration within the backend community, this role steers towards a common technical vision and is accountable for the quality of the technical deliverable of the respective team. This role has a strong focus on the technical aspects, or the “How”.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES / WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Take ownership of the backend technology stack and be a key contributor in the technical roadmap process
- Drive technical innovation, to grow scalability, security, and performance optimisations
- Take responsibility and lead larger technical projects that involve other communities like frontend, cloud or QA
- Cultivate technical excellence in the team by promoting best practices, being a mentor, observing the code quality and designing sound and reusable backend architectures
- Solve complex technical challenges to ensure robustness and performance of the platform while building elegant and future proof solutions
- Represent and guide the Backend Community to foster communication, collaboration, and efficient decision making processes
- Contribute to the product roadmap by owning the aspects of sound architecture and the technical approach
YOUR PROFILE / WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Degree in computer science, completed training as an IT specialist or comparable knowledge from practical experience
- At least 8 years experience with backend software development
- Excellent knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, REST, Hibernate, AWS, SQL and Docker
- Advanced knowledge of designing event-driven systems, observability and concurrency control
- Advanced understanding of the backend technologies landscape and interest and passion to learn and experiment with new technologies
- Participation in architectural discussions in all stages, such as initial planning, implementation, as well as refactoring
- A “you build it, you run it”-mentality
- The ability to work autonomously and in a result-oriented way
- Proficiency in English (both written and spoken) is required.
OUR OFFER / WHAT YOU'LL GET
- Being part of our supportive, persistent, curious and fun culture!
- Small teams of highly skilled developers
- High autonomy and working with a modern tech stack: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Amazon Web Services, Infrastructure As Code, Angular, Typescript, Cypress, Docker, Gitlab, Intellij IDEA
- Our Rapid Prototyping Days and Level Up Days to explore new technologies and prototype your ideas
- Joining a grown-up start-up in the SaaS/energy field
- Entrepreneurial company culture with flat hierarchies
- Modern office spaces in the heart of Munich
- State of the art hardware and software
- Diverse, international team that celebrates differences
- Free drinks, fruit, and coffee as well as special fitness offers
- Hybrid work set-up, allowing you to combine working in the office with working from home
- German classes
- Gym membership allowance
- Deutschland Job Ticket
- Learning & Development: a Personal Development Plan along with especially allocated budget and 5 extra days off to further your personal & professional development
- Relocation assistance for international candidates
- Dog-friendly office
