Software Engineer (gn)

Overview

We are Unite. We connect the economy for sustainable business. Our trusted e-procurement platform, with its integrated marketplace, enables effortless sourcing and purchasing for B2B and public sector organisations. Bringing buyers and suppliers together for mutual benefit, we’ve established a solid foundation of fair competition and trustworthy partnerships. Our platform’s scalable infrastructure supports connections, business stability and a robust supply chain. We revolutionise procurement for B2B and the public sector by adding and sharing value for markets and communities. In 2022, we became the first platform business accredited with the Fair Tax Mark, representing the global standard for responsible tax conduct.

Your role

We’re on the lookout for a curious, upbeat and dedicated software engineer to join. Our team has the mission to understand and enhance content. We process article information to classify and normalise content in order to prepare offers before they are visible in the search index.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical excellence: As a key member of a highly autonomous agile team, you’ll take ownership of complex technical challenges and play a central role in decision-making.
• Collaborative engineering: You''ll actively participate in pair programming and mentor other engineers, sharing your expertise to raise the technical bar.
• Add value: You’ll design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable solutions that optimise our processes and cross-team integrations.
• Shape our engineering culture: You''ll contribute to cross-team initiatives to define architectural guidelines, evaluate new technologies, and establish best practices.
• Cross-functional collaboration: You''ll analyse complex business requirements and work in close cooperation with the product team to translate them into production-ready code.

Your qualifications

• Your background: You have strong experience in developing and maintaining web applications in Java with Spring Boot.
• Infrastructure proficiency: You have experience running services on AWS, Kubernetes and are used to event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka).
• Technical expertise: You have a deep understanding of software engineering and best practices for building scalable, maintainable systems.
• Agile mindset: You demonstrate excellent collaboration skills, particularly in Agile software development and a remote distributed team environment.
• Be on the pulse: You're committed to continuous learning and knowledge sharing; you keep up to date with the latest trends and technologies.

What you can expect from us

• Be a part of our agile working style: Our open communication and quick decision-making processes allow our teams to work autonomously for the most part.
• We offer a flexible work location: You can work in one of our modern Unite offices in Munich or Leipzig - and hybrid.
• Workation: You can work abroad for up to 2 months, which is a great way to extend your time away or visit your family and friends in other countries.
• Enjoy our Unite culture: We invite you to be yourself, join our table tennis league or online games and have fun.
• We think long-term: You can and absolutely should invest an average of 10% of your working time into self-education and your own further training – that’s why we are great believers in offering creative freedom. You’ll also get access to our internal learning platform to grow your career.
• Build with a rich and evolving technology ecosystem: AWS, Spring Boot, Kafka, Terraform or Wicket are just a few to mention. Also, we have a fully integrated CI/CD pipeline in GitLab.