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Staff Software Engineer Architect (m/f/d) - E-Commerce

Permanent employee, Full-time · Leipzig
Introduction
Invia Group is a pan-European market leader in online travel sales and brings together leading travel portals in Europe under one roof. From package holidays to tailored tours, from business trips to family breaks, our offers for tourists serve a wide range of target groups.  
Our diverse team of Invianers work together in 5 countries: Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. Among others, Invia Group operates the portals ab- in-den-urlaub.de, invia.cz, travelplanet.pl, invia.hu.

Are you an experienced software architect with a passion for e-commerce? Invia Group is looking for a talented sStaff Software Engineer Architect (m/f/d) to lead our technological innovation. In this role, you'll lead product development, create scalable solutions and refine our enterprise architecture. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, mentor up-and-coming talent and ensure our technology meets business objectives. If you are an expert in high-performance systems and enjoy driving innovation, then join us and help shape the future of e-commerce.
Your tasks
  • Technical Leadership & Expertise: Serve as the primary technology and subject matter expert across all major teams in Invia Group, guiding the strategic direction of our technological developments.
  • Product Development Lifecycle: Support the entire product development cycle, from identifying customer needs to designing and implementing solutions that meet these requirements.
  • Solution Design: Lead the creation, presentation, and demonstration of technical solutions to senior management and engineering teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Makes sure that the most suitable technologies to solve business problems are selected.
  • Performance Monitoring: Monitor our solutions' performance, ensuring our SLOs (service level objectives) are met. Assist in designing dashboards to monitor SLIs (service level indicators) and help design quarterly goals to improve them.
  • Enterprise Architecture: Design and refine the enterprise architecture to streamline operations, reduce redundancy, and minimize latency, errors, and exceptions. Create long-term strategic plans to minimize the amount of solutions used, thus maximizing efficiency. Validate technology proposals of teams. Weigh risks and tradeoffs.
  • Collaboration & Education: Act as a central point of contact for product and engineering teams, facilitating integration and API discussions to extend our supply solutions and improve partner integrations. Leads the architecture board, ensuring the increase of technical talent density. For cross-team projects, ensures that everyone has a solid understanding of the target solution.
  • Documentation & Influence: Assist in creating key documentation (PRDs, RFCs, ADRs, C4, ERD, Sequence Diagrams). Act as a coordinator, ensuring documentation is consistent across teams.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Manage and support customer and partner communications, detailing the implementation, performance, and analytics capabilities of our platform.
  • Travel: Occasionally travel to meet with stakeholders, participate in integration workshops, and foster strong relationships with senior management, product, and engineering teams.
Your profile
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • At least 8 years of experience in software development, including architectural design and implementation of complex backend systems.
  • Ideally multiple years of experience in programming Go
  • Deep understanding of software architecture principles and extensive experience in architecting scalable, high-performance systems.
  • Proven experience in establishing and defining architectural standards, security guidelines, and best practices.
  • Excellent skills in conducting architectural reviews and providing strategic, constructive feedback.
  • Experience in training and mentoring developers and architects to enhance their technical and architectural skills.
  • Strong problem-solving abilities, capable of addressing complex technical challenges and providing innovative solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, exhibiting strong team player and communication skills.
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently, thriving in an agile environment and driving projects from conception to completion.
What we offer
  • Reliability: unlimited full-time employment contract 
  • More time for yourself: 30 days of paid leave (+ additional vacation for long term employees) 
  • Appreciation: anniversary program for your loyalty 
  • Work-Life-Balance: Flexible working hours, mobile working throughout Germany and, for a limited time, abroad 
  • But also an attractive location: offices close to the city centre with excellent transport infrastructure in Leipzig 
  • Creative space: room for creativity, proactivity, and responsibility 
  • Team spirit: regular company and team events 
  • Wellbeing: With LOFINO, you will benefit from allowances for your lunch, your health and a special goodie for birthdays, marriages and/or the birth or adoption of a child.  
  • A smoother journey to work: allowance for the ‚Deutschlandticket‘ and the posibility of a ‚JobRad‘ 
  • Focus on health and well-being: Company health management with a wide range of health services such as coaching, counselling and prevention programmes. 
Your trip to us
Simply Apply via our careers page and send us your CV, your availability and your salary expectations. As part of the application process, we are obliged as a company to view and check your work permit, your ID card or your passport to ensure that you are entitled to work for us. It must also be possible to check that you are authorised to start an employment relationship with us. Please make sure that you can provide the required documents if needed. Applications from disabled persons and persons with equivalent status are welcome. If you have any questions about this position and your application, you can reach us at +49 173 3266099
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