Senior Software Engineer
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Job description
Ready to drive a mission-critical, enterprise-wide transformation at the heart of Europe's largest freight platform? Join Transporeon's Migration team to architect the future of autonomous procurement and bridge the gap between legacy systems and next-generation AI-driven technology!, In this role, you'll be the architect of a high-stakes evolution, owning the seamless integration between Transport Assignment and Autonomous Procurement systems. Your work directly impacts the 2026 migration strategy, ensuring millions of transport orders move efficiently through a modern, AI-enhanced infrastructure.
What You Will Do:
Owning Critical Cross-System Integration
As a Senior Backend Engineer in the AP Migration (APM) team, you will be an integral part of our engineering efforts. You will drive innovation throughout the full software development lifecycle, focusing on the mission-critical TA-AP integration space.
Your typical workload will involve:
- Independently gathering deep domain knowledge of our codebases, functionalities, interactions, and current limitations to effectively plan implementation and define technical solutions.
- Designing and evolving API and event contracts, prioritizing seamless, high-volume interoperability.
- Writing code that is readable and performant, abiding by conventions and best practices across multiple system domains.
- Writing effective unit tests and performing end-to-end testing. You will be expected to prove your code works and validate data integrity.
- Creating clear technical documentation for new features and complex integration flows (, fallback mechanisms).
- Participating in code reviews and technical discussions, driving alignment on cross-system architecture and data mapping.
- Using CI/CD pipelines to integrate and deploy your code to live environments.
- Using observability tools to monitor services, debug problems, profile performance, and report against established SLOs.
- Developing and implementing robust exceptions handling and the critical fallback mechanism for failed synchronizations.
Requirements
This senior role requires extensive experience in mission-critical backend development, architectural thinking, and deep experience with distributed systems integration. Core Technical Skills
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated technical ownership
- Strong proficiency in Java and Python; experience with REST APIs, web frameworks, and ORMs
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, event streaming (, Kafka), and messaging queues
- Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), SQL optimization, and database design
- Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure preferred) and modern CI/CD practices
- Strong foundation in system design, architectural patterns, and technical trade-offs
- Proficiency with Linux as your OS, knowing your way around a terminal and commandline tools (git or ssh) would be beneficial.