Software Engineer

At idealo, millions of users from all over Europe search and discover products and prices every day. We make it easy to choose the right products and offer secure, seamless accounts for everyone, from shoppers to business partners.

We, Team Homepage & Account, are looking for an awesome addition to our team! Take the chance to join us! Full-time or part-time, whatever suits you better.

Our development process follows a continuous delivery approach with automated tests and infrastructure as code. Our services run on AWS. Assuming end-to-end responsibility is an integral part of our team DNA.

About your new role

• Designing and reviewing secure authentication and authorization workflows is a key part of the role, always aligned with our overarching system architecture goals.
• Responsibility includes implementing and maintaining libraries, REST and web services, and components written in Java/Kotlin and TypeScript/JavaScript.
• The role also involves contributing to the design, implementation, and operation of our platform infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting.
• Supporting other teams as they integrate their products with our SSO solution is essential to enable secure authorization across services.

Tech Skills

• You have extensive knowledge of Java and common open-source frameworks, especially Spring Boot and Spring Security, as well as secured web-applications, building API based solutions with REST.
• You have profound knowledge of industry standards in web authentication, authorization, and identity management (like OAuth2, OpenIdConnect, SAML) and/or frameworks and products (e.g. Auth0, Okta, AWS Cognito...).
• You are proficient with the development, design, deployment and maintenance of cloud-based applications (AWS).
• You have a solid knowledge of document databases and ORM frameworks like Spring Data MongoDB
• You feel responsible for operating and monitoring your applications.

Mindset and People Skills

• You proactively seek and integrate feedback to foster personal and professional development, while excelling in an environment that supports your growth, initiative and creativity.

• You have a forward-thinking mindset, enjoy diving into new technologies and approaches, like AI, early on, and thrive on collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and driving innovation within teams.

• You feel responsible, not only for your own work results, but also for your team's success.

• Great communication skills in English complete your profile. This allows you to exchange, discuss and share knowledge with colleagues and stakeholders.

You don't tick all the boxes? Don't worry, we are looking for employees who convince us with their personality and are motivated to go on full power with their team!

idealo is a Berlin-based internet success story. Founded in 2000, we started with the mission of helping our users to make the best online buying decisions. 
Today, we are one of the leading product and price comparison platforms in Europe and one of the largest portals in the German e-commerce market. We achieved this by obtaining more than 2.5 million page impressions per day, 50.000 connected Online-Shops, and over 560 million product offers. With a strong focus on convenience, transparency, and technological expertise, we enable our partners to grow their business on idealo as a high-quality traffic and sales driver. 

As a member of our team, you can look forward to working with a large degree of freedom in an international and inspirational environment. We are located in the heart of Berlin but believe that we are happier and can work more effectively when the job fits our individual lives. That's why we offer our employees the freedom to choose their workplace. At idealo, we are convinced that flexibility is fundamental for hybrid working and offer permanent work from anywhere in Germany as well as temporary from abroad. 

We offer a unique idealo spirit. Your ideas are the driving force that moves our business forward. Not only our product portfolio is diverse, but also the people who work on it. We want you just as you are – regardless of origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or a degree of disability.