Desired Skills and Experience

  • Develop and define areas of responsibility directly by implementing your own ideas as well as by taking the lead for independent projects
  • Modern offices with a pool table, foosball and ergonomic office equipment right in the heart of the cities of Dresden and Berlin
  • Flexible working hours, home office when needed and an equilibrium of work and life
  • Professional and personal development through feedback talks, language classes as well as in-house events such as ThunderTalks, Showtime, Open Space Days or the LOVOO Compass
  • A motivated and international team with familial spirit
  • Cross-departmental communication and knowledge sharing as well as learning directly in cross-functional teams
  • A rich culinary variety with regular lunch and dinner offers as well as a comprehensive selection of drinks
  • Be responsible for all backend-related technologies in a cloud environment (GCP) incl. design, development and performance optimizations
  • Coach and build teams, resolve conflicts as direct leader with personnel responsibility
  • Recruit worldwide for Backend Engineering and build high-performance teams
  • Coordinate across departments with Data, SRE, Localization and Mobile Engineering
  • Develop Backend Engineering strategically in cooperation with CTO
  • Work with our Agile Coaches to foster an agile development environment
  • Foster personal & professional growth across teams
  • Entrepreneurial thinking as well as at least 2 years of experience in a leadership position
  • Multiple years of experience in development of medium- and large-scale web applications and distributed systems
  • Fluency in PHP and Go
  • Knowledge of latest backend and database technologies (e.g. microservices, gRPC, HTTP/2.0, SQL, Redis/memcached, managed databases like Spanner/Aurora)
  • Familiar with Google Cloud and its concepts and services
  • Multiple years of experience in software architectures and architectural patterns, XP practices (e.g. TDD, refactoring, pair programming, CI/CD), agile methodologies and deployment pipelines
  • Sound knowledge of common algorithms & data structures
  • Experience with kubernetes, MongoDB, Cassandra, Machine Learning is viewed favorably
  • Highly self-organized with the ability to prioritize and to work well in a dynamic organization
  • Sense of humor and excellent communication skills in German and English

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