Senior Software Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential geospatial technology organization seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their distributed platform engineering teams in Berlin. Our client operates cutting-edge systems that enable customers to access, analyze, and derive insights from large-scale imagery datasets and derived analytical products.

This is a hybrid role requiring three days per week in the Berlin office. The position offers the opportunity to work on high-performance, cloud-native systems serving global customers across commercial, environmental, and research sectors.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain performant distributed services and highly-available APIs using Go, Java, and/or Python with a strong focus on customer experience
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers across multiple cross-functional teams to align product and engineering objectives
• Write high-quality, maintainable, observable, and well-documented production code
• Participate in code reviews to uphold code quality standards
• Leverage AI tooling throughout the development lifecycle while maintaining the same quality bar as hand-written code
• Own the operational excellence of APIs and services by embracing Site Reliability Engineering culture, including performance measurement, load testing, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks
• Respond to incidents and participate in on-call rotation supporting external and internal services
• Continuously learn and grow as a developer while making positive impacts on products and customers

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• 6+ years of software development experience in production environments, preferably with Python, Java, and/or Go
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Geosciences, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills with strong written and verbal communication abilities
• Comfortable writing engineering design proposals and driving collaborative decisions
• Familiarity with GCP or AWS cloud platforms
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently, navigate ambiguous problem spaces, and take calculated risks
• Experience with diverse data storage systems including relational databases, document stores, and key-value stores
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Experience with Git, large codebases, merge request reviews, and complex CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable working with Docker containers
• Strong intuition about when AI is useful in software development

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with geospatial concepts and standards (GeoTIFFs, GeoJSON, STAC)
• Experience with remotely sensed products and associated metadata
• Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai partners with you throughout the entire process. When you apply through our platform, one of our experienced recruiters will screen your application and conduct an initial conversation to understand your background and career goals. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. We ask that you do not contact the client directly, as all communication is coordinated through Get A Job.ai to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive hiring practices and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We evaluate all candidates based on qualifications and merit.