<div class="show-more-less-html__markup show-more-less-html__markup--clamp-after-5 relative overflow-hidden"> <strong>Introduction:<br/><br/></strong><strong>What if parking was no longer a hassle? What if city infrastructure worked for people, not against them?<br/><br/></strong>We believe city mobility should be smooth, smart, and sustainable. At Peter Park, we're turning outdated parking infrastructure into digital ecosystems, with real-time data, modern cloud architecture, and a team of people who care deeply about quality and user experience. Our backend systems power thousands of parking lots across Europe, replacing tickets, barriers, and waiting with seamless automation.<br/><br/>We’re looking for a backend engineer who codes with purpose, builds for scale, and thrives in a startup environment where every contribution matters.<br/><br/><strong>Your Objectives &amp; Role:<br/><br/></strong>As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll play a core role in how our platform evolves and scales, focusing on:<br/><br/><ul><li>Architecting &amp; Enhancing: Develop and refine our core backend systems, the very heart of our car parking solutions, impacting both B2B and B2C users.</li><li>Streamline Deployment: Enhance and optimize CI/CD pipelines for both backend and IoT systems, ensuring a seamless, fully automated workflow that reliably delivers high-quality code to production with speed and confidence.</li><li>Elevating Monitoring: Enhance our monitoring capabilities with Datadog, gaining deeper insights and proactively ensuring system health.</li><li>Scaling for Impact: Contribute to scaling our systems to efficiently manage and operate thousands of parking lots.</li><li>Championing Engineering Excellence: Play a key role in shaping our engineering culture, advocating for modern software engineering practices, clean code, robust testing, and efficient solutions.<br/><br/></li></ul><strong>Your Expertise, Skills &amp; Mindset:<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>Real seniority: Not defined by years of experience but by strive for continuous improvement, direct impact on the business, and ownership.</li><li>Deep Expertise: You have a deep expertise in one or more languages (Typescript, Javascript, Python, C++) and a proven ability to quickly adapt to new tools and frameworks.</li><li>Production Powerhouse: Strong track record with real-world production projects handling high throughput.</li><li>Backend Mastery: Proficient with modern backend frameworks like NestJS, Flask, Fastify, or FastAPI.</li><li>Clear Communicator: Excellent written and spoken English (C1 level) is essential. German language proficiency is not required.<br/><br/></li></ul><strong>Technologies We Work With:<br/><br/></strong>We embrace modern, cutting-edge technologies to build robust and scalable solutions.<br/><br/><ul><li>Backend: Event-driven microservices in Python and NodeJS (NestJS).</li><li>Frontend: Monorepo powered by Turbo, pnpm, changesets, and Storybook, primarily using Vue.js.</li><li>Frameworks/Libraries: Adoption of TypeScript, NestJS, BullMQ, and Prisma for backends in an opinionated monorepo approach.</li><li>Databases: Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, S3.</li><li>Orchestration &amp; CI/CD: We manage our container orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS), using Keda and Karpenter for dynamic autoscaling. Our CI/CD is powered by GitLab.</li><li>Infrastructure as Code: Terraform for AWS provisioning.</li><li>Serverless: Leveraging AWS Lambda and the Serverless framework for high-throughput endpoints.<br/><br/></li></ul><strong>Work Setup:<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>Hours: 40 hours per week (based on trust).</li><li>Home Office Policy: Enjoy a hybrid model with 3 days in the office / 2 days remote.</li><li>Contract: A permanent contract for long-term stability.</li><li>Location: Our modern office in Munich, a vibrant city in the heart of Bavaria.<br/><br/></li></ul><strong>What We Offer:<br/><br/></strong>We believe in supporting our team with an environment that fosters growth, well-being, and a great work-life balance.<br/><br/><ul><li>Your Ideal Setup: MacBook (M4 Pro, 48GB Ram) and a 37-inch curved screen.</li><li>Dynamic Culture: Enjoy a true startup atmosphere with flat hierarchies, agile teams, and a diverse, international group of colleagues. </li><li>Flexibility: Benefit from flexible working hours and the option to work from home or our state-of-the-art Munich office with standing desks.</li><li>Competitive Compensation: A strong competitive salary that recognizes your expertise.</li><li>Future Planning: A solid company pension plan.</li><li>Foodie Perks: Daily meal allowance, weekly free team lunch, a well-stocked cereal bar, and complimentary drinks.</li><li>Health &amp; Wellness: Job bike program and access to premium sports and fitness facilities via EGYM Wellpass or Urban Sports Club membership across Germany.</li><li>Continuous Growth: Ample professional development opportunities to sharpen your skills.</li><li>Language Support: German language learning opportunities.</li><li>Exclusive Discounts: Enjoy special discounts on various branded products through Corporate Benefits.<br/><br/></li></ul><strong>Our Recruiting Process:<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>Initial Contact: We’ll get back to you within 48 hours.</li><li>HR Interview: Discuss your experience and expectations with our HR team.</li><li>Live Assessment: Complete a technical exercise designed to challenge you with scenarios beyond your usual experience.</li><li>Tech Challenge: Tackle a problem in a familiar context to demonstrate your technical skills and approach.</li><li>Leadership Conversation: Dive deeper into the role and expectations with a member of our technical leadership.</li><li>On-Site Meeting: Visit our Munich office, meet more of the team, and experience our culture firsthand.<br/><br/></li></ul>Interested in joining our team? Apply now and be part of something great!<br/><br/><strong>About Us<br/><br/></strong>Peter Park revolutionizes parking lots by digitizing them. Our mission is to replace physical barriers with cutting-edge computer vision technology, paper-based receipts with interactive touch screen terminals, and traditional payment methods with smartphone integration and cloud microservices. We aim to integrate every parking lot into the digital mobility ecosystem, offering a range of secondary services to optimize parking capacity utilization.<br/><br/>As of now, Peter Park operates over 500 edge devices across Europe, facilitating thousands of parking and payment transactions per hour. Our physical infrastructure relies on distributed, Python and NestJS-based backend services hosted on AWS. </div>