Senior Backend Developer (Node.js/Go) with German language

Company Description

Location: Germany

Company: 23 000 employees, Logistics domain.

Team: 14 people from Sigma Software. Cooperation from 2017.

6 active projects related to Warehouse Management system, Transport Management system, Order Management system, and Communication platform. Active development.

The Company, headquartered in Germany, is one of Europe's leading logistics providers. Its competence lies particularly in the development and realization of integrated supply chain systems, and focuses on using data to optimize logistics operations.

Job Description

We are seeking a motivated, self-driven, and positive individual with strong communication skills to join our team in the project in the Logistic domain.

If you are passionate about your work and strive to solve challenging tasks, we would be happy to have you join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust software applications using Node.js, Golang
• Create new functionality from scratch (e.g., role-based access control permissions service, service for integrating APIs, endpoints) under the supervision of Senior Developers
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define, design, and ship new features

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial development experience with a focus on the TypeScript/JavaScript technology stack
• Proven experience with:
  
  • Node.js (Fastify for API development, Jest for testing)
  • Golang (using standard Go HTTP package - net/http - without external web frameworks)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kibana, Opensearch Dashboard, Signoz, Grafana
• Knowledge of message broker concepts; familiarity with RabbitMQ is a plus (currently in planning phase, infrastructure not yet in place)
• DevOps knowledge: Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines
• Experience with Azure
• Strong communication skills
• Strong multitasking abilities
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with a focus on driving results and meeting deadlines
• Strong analytical thinking and technical judgement - assessing what to refactor, what to rebuild, and how to modernize effectively
• Ability to quickly understand existing digital products and architectures (even with limited documentation - analyzing architecture, data flows, and user interactions)
• SCRUM experience
• Fluent English
• Upper Intermediate level of German

Additional Information

Team size and members level?

6 Team members. Middle-Senior-Principal level.

Who works on our side, on customer's side? (PM, PO, Architect, etc.)

DevOps, PO, development team on customer side.

At what stage is the project? (requirements gathering, design, start of development, active dev., final stage of dev., maintenance and support)

Active development.

Where the system is hosted/deployed? Architecture type? Application types?

Azure

Describe communication channel (direct or through PM\TL; response speed, voice, chat, mail?)

Direct. The candidate will be the part of client team