Senior Software Engineer - Offer Team

About idealo

Idealo is a leading price comparison platform, empowering millions of users to make informed purchasing decisions. Our engineering teams are at the forefront of innovation, building and maintaining the complex systems that power our services.

About Your New Role

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Offer team, you will be instrumental in developing, operating, and continuously improving distributed backend services that are critical to idealo's offer platform. You will take end-to-end ownership of services in production, contributing to a sophisticated event-driven, cloud-native architecture on AWS.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, operate, and continuously improve distributed backend services critical to the offer platform.
• Take end-to-end ownership of services in production, including technical design, implementation, monitoring, incident response, and long-term system quality.
• Contribute to the evolution of our architecture within a multi-service, multi-domain, event-driven, cloud-native environment.
• Participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation, responding to incidents and debugging production issues.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders, providing technical input to shape better solutions.

How We Work

• We operate using a continuous delivery model with Kanban, allowing work to flow continuously.
• Your day-to-day will involve a mix of feature development, operational tasks, technical improvements, incident follow-ups, and automation. We value engineers who can manage multiple priorities effectively.
• We embrace the "you build it, you run it" philosophy, integrating development and operations for end-to-end system responsibility.
• AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot are used to enhance workflows, with critical validation of generated results. We actively seek opportunities to automate repetitive tasks and improve our software development processes.

Skills & Requirements

• Solid experience in software engineering, preferably in backend development, distributed systems, or cloud-based environments.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals: APIs, testing, system design basics, reliability, and maintainability.
• Interest in complex distributed systems and a drive for deep technical growth.
• Comfort taking ownership of production systems, including operations and on-call responsibilities.
• Self-driven approach, actively seeking better solutions and taking initiative.
• Enthusiasm for learning, exploring new areas, and sharing knowledge.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively through pairing, code reviews, and open discussions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS or other cloud environments.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka).
• Experience with microservices, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, or automation.
• Experience improving reliability, performance, scalability, or cost efficiency in production systems.