Software Engineer

Software Engineers (Full-time, On-site) | Hamburg

About the company

Our client is an engineering-led software company that builds custom, large-scale software platforms for some of the best-known names in German and European industry, across retail, automotive, e-commerce, healthcare and more. Their platforms are used by millions of people every day, and each one is business-critical for the client it serves.

Around 85% of the team are software engineers with backgrounds in computer science, physics or mathematics, many with strong experience in Machine Learning and AI. It’s a 300+ person company with people from all over the world, and it has been delivering complex projects for over 25 years.

The role

• Ownership: From day one, you own your stories and take end-to-end responsibility for your tasks.
• Small teams: You’ll work in a team of no more than five full-stack engineers, so you can move fast.
• Full lifecycle: You’ll be involved in everything from product requirements and design to testing, deployment and operations, and you’ll improve what you build based on user feedback and real usage data.
• Real responsibility: You won’t be an extra pair of hands on a client team. You’ll be part of the team that owns the problem, from the first idea to the final roll-out.
• Impact: You’ll contribute to some of the largest and most demanding software projects in Europe.
• Growth: Everyone starts as a newbie and progresses through the engineering levels, from owning small to medium feature sets to being responsible for a whole codebase.

About you

• A Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or a closely related field.
• Strong problem-solving skills. They hire for engineering fundamentals and analytical thinking, not specific programming languages. If you can code, debug and solve complex problems, you can learn any language.
• Genuine curiosity for programming, shown through pet projects, hackathons or competitive programming.
• A habit of stepping outside your comfort zone, whether through competitive tutoring, scholarships, competitive sports or anything else where you pushed yourself and grew.

Bonus points

• Algorithms and data structures, including time and space complexity
• Experience in Go, Kotlin, TypeScript or JavaScript
• Front-end experience (React, Angular, Vue or Flutter/Dart)
• Functional programming (Common Lisp, Clojure or Haskell)
• Distributed systems in the cloud
• Machine Learning and Data Science

Please note: This is an on-site role in Hamburg, five days a week. Remote-only positions aren’t available.