Senior Backend & DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)
Peter Park
Full-time
On-site
MΓΌnchen, Bayern, Germany
Introduction:
Are you ready to be part of an innovative team at the forefront of shaping the future of car parking technology? We are seeking a dynamic individual to join us and play a key role in revolutionizing the way we interact with parking spaces. As a Senior Backend & DevOps Engineer (m/f/d), you will have the opportunity to leverage cutting-edge technologies, build a resilient backend infrastructure, and contribute to a thriving engineering culture. If you're excited about redefining the future of Peter Park, we invite you to join our team and make a meaningful impact.
Our Objectives and your Role:
- Work on an amazing product with b2b and b2c aspects at the intersection of mobility and property technology
- Develop and enhance our backend, serving as the operating system for car parking
- Contribute to the improvement of our CI pipelines for both backend and IoT deployments
- Improve our monitoring system for our services with Datadog
- Assist in scaling up our systems for managing thousands of parking lots
- Shape our engineering culture by employing modern software engineering practices, focusing on writing clean, well-tested, and efficient code
- Continuously deploy code into production
- Build up deep knowledge about our python based backend services running on AWS and edge devices
- Manage our technical debt and evolve our architecture to support future requirements and meet our SLA agreements
- Mentor other engineers on API and python design patterns, cloud services and DevOps
Skills, knowledge & expertise:
- Real seniority. Not defined by years of experience but by strive for continuous improvement, direct impact on the business, and ownership
- Be a pro in more than one field (Python, C++, Node.js, AWS cloud services and more)
- Strong experience in real production projects with high throughput
- Proficient in backend frameworks such as NestJS, Flask, Fastify, FastAPI
- Excellent written and spoken English skills (level C1). German language proficiency is not required
Technologies We Work With:
- Event-driven backend development in Python and NestJS, following a microservice architecture
- Frontend monorepo with Turbo, pnpm, changesets, and storybook, primarily using Vue.js
- Adoption of TypeScript, NestJS, BullMQ, and Prisma for backends in an opinionated monorepo approach
- Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, S3
- Container orchestration with Kubernetes and CI/CD using GitLab
- Infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform
- Leveraging the serverless framework on AWS Lambda for high-throughput endpoints
What We Offer:
- MacBook or ThinkPad and a 37-inch curved screen for your work setup
- Startup atmosphere with flat hierarchies and agile team structures
- Flexible working hours and the option to work from home or our state-of-the-art office in Munich, equipped with standing desks
- Competitive salary
- Company pension plan
- Daily meal allowance, free team lunch once a week, cereal bar, and free drinks
- Job bike and access to sports and fitness facilities through EGYM Wellpass or Urban Sports Club membership across Germany
- Professional development opportunities
- German language course
- Discounts on various branded products through our partner Corporate Benefits
Our Recruiting Process:
- Initial contact within 48h
- Interview with you and a member of our team
- Coding Challenge
- In person meeting in Munich
About us
Peter Park revolutionizes parking lots by digitizing them. Our mission is to replace physical barriers with cutting-edge computer vision technology, paper-based receipts with interactive touch screen terminals, and traditional payment methods with smartphone integration and cloud microservices. We aim to integrate every parking lot into the digital mobility ecosystem, offering a range of secondary services to optimize parking capacity utilization.
As of now, Peter Park operates over 500 edge devices across Europe, facilitating thousands of parking and payment transactions per hour. Our physical infrastructure relies on distributed, Python and NestJS-based backend services hosted on AWS.