Lead Backend Developer - Cloud Storage - STACKIT (m/f/d)

Schwarz Digits creates the technological foundation for digital sovereignty in Europe. As the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, we develop and manage the IT infrastructures for the retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland, as well as Schwarz Production and PreZero. At the same time, we operate as an independent provider in the external market to support companies across Europe in their digital transformation. We bundle our core services in the areas of Cloud, Cyber Security, Data & AI, Communication, and Workspace.

Join us and contribute to digital sovereignty in Europe. With us, you will work at the intersection of agility and security: You will benefit from fast decision-making processes, enjoy genuine creative freedom in your projects, and be able to build upon the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group.

Your tasks

• Product development: You actively shape the future of relevant STACKIT storage products (e.g. object storage) over the entire life cycle On the basis of Golang, we offer highly automated self-services with REST APIs in a Kubernetes-based environment
• Software quality: As Lead Backend Developer, you lead the team to technical excellence and support your colleagues with your own aspiration to become a little better every day and to continuously optimize our products
• Architecture: You are responsible for the development of the software architecture, which you develop in cooperation with your team and make it a reality - because it is important to you to build a long-term stable and reliable solution that our customers will be happy to use
• Integration: To ensure that new products and functionalities can be seamlessly integrated into the STACKIT product family, you coordinate the specialist and technical coordination with the responsible STACKIT services, e.g. for integration into the STACKIT portal, the STACKIT Terraform provider or the central STACKIT IAM
• End-to-end responsibility: Identifying with the products we provide to our customers is very important to us. Therefore, we actively live an end-to-end responsibility and receive support from many internal STACKIT service teams to refine our services
• Roadmap & Planning: You support the product owner in the evaluation and strategic alignment of the products based on customer requirements and, together with your team, transfer them into concrete technical implementations

Your Profile

• You want to make a difference and play a significant role in shaping the solution with state-of-the-art cloud technologies
• You have several years of experience in the development environment with Golang and have extensive knowledge of cloud environments and their architectures
• You have competencies in interface and communication technologies (e.g. REST and gRPC), as well as in database systems (e.g. PostgreSQL) and Kubernetes
• You are confident in the methods of professional software development (from development standards to build and release management)
• You have fun sharing your experiences and knowledge with your team and other developers
• You are quick to grasp and feel comfortable working with new technologies in a fast-growing, dynamic environment
• You have an affinity for IT infrastructure and interest in storage services in highly automated environments (e.g. CI / CD, pipelines)
• Your excellent communication skills in German and English form the basis for successful cooperation in international, agile teams