Back-End Software Engineer

Who we are

We area global logistics company offering transport and related services by land sea rail and air. We particularly focus on costefficient sustainable and environmentallyfriendly transport. With an annual turnover of more than 800 million euros the company is one of the largest transport companies in Europe with offices in 24 countries across EuropeNorth and South America Asia and Australia employing around 1450 employees in total.

Job Description

As a BackEnd Software Engineer you will focus on crafting developing and testing critical enterprise solutions and other custom application development projects. You will work on a variety of new projects as well as maintaining existing applications when required and youre happy to share your programming knowledge to support your colleagues.

The application stack includes software to support the frontend user experience business logic backend and database services. Appropriate use of software design patterns architectural styles such as microservices are key tools to a BackEnd Software Engineer. In a modernday enterprise development wider concerns such as API Management cloudbased services and deployments to a container orchestrator such as Kubernetes are also relevant. In addition the ability to operate within an Agile project environment and a willingness to adapt to different ways of working are essential to being successful within this role.

Specific responsibilities

• Build and automate the features and services that model complex businessproblems and power enterprisescale systems
• Implement APIs and Microservices integrating with external systems including database design data access and ORMs.
• Develop scalable cloudbased solutions considering security and performance.
• Harness modern development and DevOps practices including CI/CD containerization and automated testing
• Configure build and test the application or technical architecture components working in a team with other developers designers and architects.
• Meet with your team and the client to align on Sprint objectives.

Ideal characteristics

• Critical thinking and problemsolving skills are essential.
• In order to handle last minute change of priorities pressure and tight deadlines you need to be flexible and effective.
• You are capable of quickly mastering new techniques.
• You have excellent communication and collaboration skills and you know how to influence negotiate and present information to engage others and get the job done.
• You adapt easily to a new technical stack and you respect the teams goal of framework simplicity i.e. in order to achieve efficient future software maintenance.

Education and experience

• Computer Science or similar.
• Proven work experience with objectoriented programming in enterprisescale applications.
• Transport / Logistics industry experience is a plus.
• Excellent C# programming skills.
• Proven experience in developing .NET or .NET Core based applications and APIs.
• Solid understanding of OOP design patterns good programming practices testing
• and deployment.
• Experience in developing and executing unit tests to ensure and maintain code
• quality.
• Experience with cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and SQL NoSQL database systems is nice to have.
• You are comfortable using CI/CD using tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub
• Understanding SCRUM / Kanban methodology.
• Excellent command in spoken and written English.

What are the motivators

• Greenfield project
• Freedom to set this up your way
• Great team
• Innovation

What are the pain points

• Adhoc changing business priorities