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# Senior Java / Flowable / Kafka Backend Engineer (100%,

- **Company:** LEASETEQ
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €70,000.0 - €90,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Business Process Model and Notation, Code Review, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Spring Cloud, Spring-boot, Backend, Containerization, Apache Kafka, Virtual Agents, Restful APIs, Api Management, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=09c147e5f4e65dd5

## About the Role

* 5+ years of Java backend engineering experience (Spring Boot / Spring Cloud)
 * Production Flowable experience (BPMN 2.0, DMN) is mandatory
 * Strong Kafka expertise in production systems is mandatory
 * Solid experience with microservices patterns and distributed systems
 * PostgreSQL experience; Elasticsearch knowledge is a plus
 * Confident with Docker and Kubernetes in a cloud-native environment
 * AI-first engineering mindset (daily use of coding assistants and automation tools)
 * Fluent in German and English
 * Experience in car leasing, asset finance or insurance domains is a strong plus

## Description

You are the architect and builder of LEASETEQ's backend core in Berlin. You design the event-driven micro-services and Flowable process models that power lease orchestration for real customers at production scale. You work in a small, senior team where your decisions have direct product impact, and you naturally bring AI tooling into your daily engineering workflow without being asked., * Design and implement BPMN 2.0 process models and DMN decision tables in Flowable

 * Build and maintain Java / Spring Boot micro-services integrating with Flowable Java and REST APIs
 * Design and operate Kafka-based event streaming for core leasing domains
 * Own service boundaries, API contracts and data models end-to-end
 * Collaborate with the AI Agent Engineer to expose AI automation as Flowable service tasks and event-driven gateways
 * Define technical standards and review code from our Southeast Asia developer partners
 * Participate in architecture decisions and quarterly reviews with the CTO
 * Communicate clearly in German and English with engineering peers and business stakeholders


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