What the job is about
As a backend Software Engineer Microservices, your role involves expanding and enhancing our leading ‘Miles Enterprise’ solution. Miles offers a secure and cloud-native platform for automotive finance, leasing, fleet, and mobility management.
Your expertise & experience are highly valued in our multidisciplinary agile product team. By mentoring and coaching the less experienced engineers, you will elevate the team to the next level.
Furthermore, you will become part of our internal software engineering community, which connects Software Engineers from across the organization worldwide. This community provides a platform for learning from one another, sharing best practices, and fostering personal growth.
Continuous learning and innovation are fundamental pillars of our company. We achieve this through an engineering culture that prioritizes code reviews and pair programming. These practices facilitate collaborative learning & drive innovation within our team.
As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the overall success of Sofico and help drive the company's commitment to delivering high-quality software solutions.
Your responsibilities include:
- Translating domain models into (micro)service architectures.
- Collaborating with internal API consumers using a domain-driven-design approach and integrating with external systems through tasks such as database design, data access & ORMs.
- Developing scalable and cloud-native solutions, utilizing modern development and DevOps practices including CI/CD, containerization & automated testing.
- Prioritizing a security-first approach when implementing features and changes in the SSDLC (Secure Software Development Life Cycle) process.
Your interests and skills
- Experience (4+ years) as a backend engineer developing scalable, production-ready solutions using the Java stack.
- Experience in implementing RESTful API within microservice architectures.
- Expertise in SQL (specifically PostgreSQL) is essential, familiarity with other NoSQL datastore is a plus.
- Proficiency in DevOps with tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins or GitHub Actions is expected.
- Experience or knowledge of any other technologies such as Angular, Kafka, Docker/Podman, or Kubernetes is a plus. $
- Business fluent in English
- Attractive salary package paid 14 times per year
- Hospital insurance reimbursed up to €80 per month
- Adding to the Spanish social security coverage, sick leave paid for the first two sickness periods per year
- Flexible working hours supporting a healthy work life balance
- Up to 2 days per week of remote work
We would like to welcome you to an international and multicultural company that has been operating for over 30 years and is doubling in size every 5 years. Growth is our middle name, while we strongly adhere to our horizontal and open company culture.
You're in the drivers' seat of your own career, that's our motto. Your personal development is therefore paramount. During an extensive onboarding program of six months, we make you, with the support of your job coach, familiar with our product and the organization. Even after this period, you will continue to get opportunities to learn and develop yourself further. You’re never alone.
At Sofico you will also work in a modern state-of-the-art office that is easily accessible. We are strong believers in the power of a good cup of coffee. Water or soft drinks are of course also on the menu. We love our team events. Think after-work drinks, a BBQ, a family day, a company weekend, or a walking dinner with the whole company.
Skills Required
- 4+ years experience as a backend engineer using the Java stack
- Experience implementing RESTful APIs within microservice architectures
- Expertise in SQL, specifically PostgreSQL
- Proficiency with DevOps tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Experience with CI/CD, containerization and automated testing (cloud-native development)
- Business fluent in English
- Familiarity with NoSQL datastores
- Experience or knowledge of Angular
- Experience or knowledge of Kafka
- Experience or knowledge of Docker or Podman
- Experience or knowledge of Kubernetes
- Experience mentoring or coaching less-experienced engineers
What We Do
Sofico is a world-leading provider of industry-leading ERP software solutions for automotive finance, leasing, fleet, and mobility management companies globally. With over 35 years of industry experience, the company empowers these organizations to provide superior solutions for enhanced automotive and mobility services through a flexible and comprehensive product suite designed to manage diverse contract types and lines of business via a unified cloud-based platform.
