Lead Backend Engineer (m/f/d)

Introduction:

Get ready to embark on an exhilarating journey in the world of mobility technology! This job opportunity invites you to shape the future of parking systems, where you'll be at the forefront of developing a cutting-edge backend, optimizing CI pipelines, and enhancing monitoring with Datadog, all while ensuring the seamless operation of thousands of parking lots. If you're a passionate engineer with a hunger for continuous improvement and proficiency in a variety of programming languages, this is your chance to revolutionize the industry and make a direct impact on our dynamic, tech-driven team.

Your Objectives & Role:

• Drive the Backend Vision: Define and evolve the architecture of our backend systems, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and aligned with long-term product strategy.
• Align Engineering with Strategy: Act as a technical counterpart to product and business stakeholders, translating company objectives into backend initiatives with measurable impact.
• Drive End-to-End Ownership: Take accountability for backend projects from concept to delivery and beyond, setting the standard for reliability and quality across the lifecycle.
• Champion Engineering Excellence: Set the bar for clean, performant, and maintainable code; foster a culture of high standards and technical curiosity.
• Lead & Develop Engineers: Guide backend engineers through mentorship, coaching, and clear technical direction to grow the team’s capabilities and autonomy.
• Architect for Scale & Resilience: Make critical decisions on system design and performance to support a growing platform with increasing complexity and scale.
• Elevate Operational Maturity: Lead improvements to monitoring, observability, and developer workflows, ensuring backend systems are resilient and teams can ship confidently.
• Embed Security by Design: Take responsibility for backend security posture, ensuring systems meet best practices and compliance from the ground up.
• Be a Force for Innovation: Stay ahead of backend trends and emerging technologies; drive continuous improvement in how we build, scale, and operate our systems.

Your Expertise, Skills & Mindset:

• Real Seniority: Not defined by years of experience but by a drive for continuous improvement, direct business impact, and ownership.
• Backend Development: Strong proficiency in Python, C++, Node.js, and backend frameworks such as NestJS, Flask, Fastify, or FastAPI.
• Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS services like RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, EC2, and SQS.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform or similar tools for infrastructure automation.
• High-Throughput Systems: Strong experience in real production projects handling large-scale data flows.
• Monitoring & Observability: Proficiency in tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Security & Networking: Solid understanding of networking principles, security best practices, and cloud security.
• Agile & Fast-Paced Environments: Experience in agile teams, working in dynamic, fast-growing tech environments.
• Excellent Communication: Strong English communication skills (C1+), with the ability to collaborate across teams. German 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

Work Setup:

• Hours: 40 hours per week (based on trust)
• Home Office Policy: 3 days in the office / 2 days remote
• Contract: Permanent contract
• Location: Munich

What We Offer:

We believe in supporting our team with an environment that fosters growth, well-being, and a great work-life balance.

• Your Ideal Setup: MacBook (M4 Pro, 48GB Ram) and a 37-inch curved screen.
• Dynamic Culture: Enjoy a true startup atmosphere with flat hierarchies, agile teams, and a diverse, international group of colleagues.
• Flexibility: Benefit from flexible working hours and the option to work from home or our state-of-the-art Munich office with standing desks.
• Competitive Compensation: A strong competitive salary that recognizes your expertise.
• Future Planning: A solid company pension plan.
• Foodie Perks: Daily meal allowance, weekly free team lunch, a well-stocked cereal bar, and complimentary drinks.
• Health & Wellness: Job bike program and access to premium sports and fitness facilities via EGYM Wellpass or Urban Sports Club membership across Germany.
• Continuous Growth: Ample professional development opportunities to sharpen your skills.
• Language Support: German language learning opportunities.
• Exclusive Discounts: Enjoy special discounts on various branded products through Corporate Benefits.

Our Recruiting Process:

• Initial Contact: We’ll get back to you within 48 hours.
• HR Interview: Discuss your experience and expectations with our HR team.
• Live Assessment: Complete a technical exercise designed to challenge you with scenarios beyond your usual experience.
• Tech Challenge: Tackle a problem in a familiar context to demonstrate your technical skills and approach.
• Leadership Conversation: Dive deeper into the role and expectations with a member of our technical leadership.
• On-Site Meeting: Visit our Munich office, meet more of the team, and experience our culture firsthand.

Interested in joining our team? Apply now and be part of something great!

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.