Software Engineering Lead

Job Title: Software Engineering Lead (m/f/d)

Location: This role is fully remote from Germany, or within Europe

The Software Engineering Lead will contribute and lead a team in developing innovative platform services for the transportation domain at Trimble. These services will seamlessly integrate with Trimble Cloud core platform services and offer transportation platform APIs for a range of transportation products and applications. As we establish new teams and develop new platform services, our forward-thinking approach aims to build a robust foundation for Trimble's transportation products. We offer a dynamic environment that encourages exploration and innovation with next-gen technologies to address the evolving needs of the industry.

This role will take complete ownership and responsibility for one of the core platform services and involves 100% coding.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design and develop a strong foundation for one of the platform services for domain-specific products that are reusable, extensible, and flexible to accommodate new consumer requirements.

• Collaborate and engage with consumers to understand the requirements, provide efficient and effective solutions to meet their needs, and build a strong shared service.

• Identify innovative solutions for redundant manual workflows and automate and build using next gen technologies

• Be the front door for your customers to build services into a single ecosystem.

• Lead a team of Software Engineers, mentor them, and maintain high-quality standards throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Take comprehensive responsibility for the service, overseeing its development, deployment, monitoring, service metrics, and maintenance.

• Follow best practices in all operations of the service, including availability, scalability, security, durability, and reliability.

• Conduct thorough and efficient code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure CI/CD is in place.

• Automate manual workflows in all phases of the SDLC. 

Desired Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience developing backend services, SaaS/ APIs, and RESTful web services.

• Experience in architecting and developing microservices and platform services.

• Strong experience in developing services in Java, Spring, and Spring Boot using Maven/Gradle.

• Experience developing in event-driven architecture.

• Experience developing cloud-agnostic and cloud-native services.

• Strong design skills to design more generic services that are extensible.

• Strong coding skills developing high-quality reusable code and providing effective code reviews.

• Innovative mindset and eagerness to learn and contribute using next-gen technologies.

• Professional skills in communicating in English and working with international teams.

Tech Stack

• Languages: Java

• Frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot, Gradle, REST API

• CI/CD: Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions

• Database: PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/ElasticSearch, or any RDBMS + NoSQL experience

• Cloud: Azure or any cloud experience

• Message Broker: Kafka or any message broker and any event-driven architecture experience

Nice to have:

• Prior experience building authentication and authorization services

Are you the candidate we are looking for? We look forward to receiving your application.

Trimble’s Inclusiveness Commitment

We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our success while moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.

We have programs to ensure our people are seen, heard and welcomed and, most importantly, that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.