As a senior contributor, you will be responsible for designing and implementing foundational solutions to complex technical challenges and championing their adoption across the organization. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise and a track record of crafting engineering culture and guidelines within high-performing development teams. You will write and review code, contribute actively to design discussions, and help define the architectural direction for platform services. Your work involves participating in sessions to develop reviews, contributing feedback during code reviews, and engaging in post-mortem and root-cause analysis. You will work with colleagues across several fields to refine business processes and ensure technical alignment.
This role is both highly technical and highly collaborative. You will work closely with geographically distributed teams, participate in recurring and ad hoc technical discussions, and serve as a mentor to junior developers by modeling strong engineering discipline and thought leadership. Your ability to communicate effectively, influence peers, and drive sound engineering decisions will be essential to your success.
This position follows a flexible hybrid work model.We offer:
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer
Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $153,750 - $205,000 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications:What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain foundational platform services, writing high-quality software and infrastructure-as-code to support Dematic’s global product ecosystem.
- Develop Java-based microservices packaged as containerized workloads (Docker) and deployed in Kubernetes environments.
- Apply cloud engineering best practices across compute, storage, networking, IAM, IaC, and managed services within AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Contribute to solution design, including architectural documentation, coding standards, design patterns, and system diagrams.
- Own and maintain technical documentation, ensuring designs and code are discoverable, scalable, and aligned with platform principles.
- Work collaboratively with distributed teams across multiple geographies, ensuring alignment on architecture, implementation, and delivery expectations.
- Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on coding practices, cloud architecture, testing, and DevOps workflows.
- Influence technical direction through cross-team collaboration with architects, product managers, and other technical leaders.
What We’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience across diverse environments and architectures.
- Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including use of managed services, IAM, and IaC.
- Strong background in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and complex build/deploy workflows.
- Deep expertise in:
- Java, JPA/Hibernate
- SQL and relational database design
- REST / OpenAPI
- Event-driven / message-based architectures
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to convey complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills; able to build alignment across stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated curiosity, a continuous learning approach, and the ability to lead in ambiguous or evolving environments.
- Proven ability to work independently on complex, long-term initiatives and deliver results.
- Ability to travel up to 15%.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Python, Maven, Terraform, or additional technologies that support DevOps and cloud-native deployments.
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What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries.
We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers.
Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry.
With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis.
No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally.
Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
