In this IT role, you will manage, develop, and support the technology infrastructure that powers Kuehne+Nagel’s global systems and operations. This contribution is vital to making both special and ordinary moments in the lives of people a reality. In fact, your work enables our teams to deliver fresh fruit, time-sensitive healthcare products and much more to people all around the world. Working in IT at Kuehne+Nagel contributes to more than we imagine.

Your Role

A Senior Backend Engineer participates in all relevant steps of designing and creating new systems. This process starts with involvement in the initial idea, planning, and design, and moves on to actual coding, documenting, and testing. It continues with the rollout, continuous maintenance and optimization, and support of the solution built. 

These tasks are usually undertaken by a product team consisting of Software Engineers, plus other professionals sharing tasks and responsibilities. Each member carries out a particular step of the development process. 

Job Description: 

• Writing and implementing effective, secure, and maintainable software  
• Quality assurance: Testing (Unit, developer, integration, performance) incl. test automation as well as manual testing and smoke tests 
• Database: design & optimization 
• Maintenance of build pipelines, related infrastructure, and middleware 
• Software craftsmanship, ensuring inner software quality, clean code, peer review, pair programming 
• Identification of potential for synergies, optimizations, and refactoring 
• Exchange with stakeholders: feature evaluation, planning, discussion & consulting, gain and share insights into the business domain 
• Operations & monitoring of delivered artefacts and products 
• Mentors' other engineers and acts as the go to person for technical questions from the team.
• 3rd level support 
• Special responsibilities, e.g. release management 
• Work closely with other developers, PO, business, and systems analysts as well as other stakeholders 
• Other one-time tasks assigned by the Manager. 

Required skill set: 

• 5+ years’ experience in Java development in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in Spring, Spring Boot frameworks, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring Data and Spring Web.
• Adheres to clean code principles.
• Has experience in mentoring other colleagues and supporting their growth. Acts as the go to person for technical questions.
• Has practiced different software development techniques (e.g. TDD, BDD, ATDD, Pair Programming, etc.)
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.

Good to have experiences on:

• Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spring Integration, Spring Batch.
• OpenAPI, JaxB, Jackson, Lombok, MapStruct.
• Jakarta Validation, TestContainers, Kubernetes.

Tools:

• Languages & Frameworks: Java SE 21, Spring Boot
• Messaging & Data: RabbitMQ, Kafka, PostgreSQL
• Build Tools: Maven
• Development Tools: Kubernetes, GitLab, Git, Confluence, Jira, IntelliJ IDEA

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.