Software Engineer (d/f/m)

IT       ·       Berlin       ·       Full time

Business Unit:  Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA
Location:  Berlin, DE, 10405
Employment Type:  regular
Contact Person:  Ivana Simovi
Contact Information:  030 4036 39459
Job ID:  994

Summary Statement

Ottobock’s products and services in prosthetics and orthotics as well as human mobility and patient care ensure independence and quality of life when personal mobility is restricted. With more than 8,000 employees in more than 50 countries, our company is the world market leader in technical orthopedics.

To achieve this mission, we have successfully launched a rapidly growing venture on our state-of-the art campus in Berlin —aiming to develop a digital and innovative service offering for key stakeholders within the Orthotics and Prosthetics industry. Become part of the journey, help us further grow our venture in a meaningful and exciting industry.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Product Development: You will implement new features and improve existing ones for our platform. In order to be successful, you work and communicate frequently with product management and business stakeholders
• Production Readiness: You guarantee good operability and resilience of the platform by continuously improving the reliability and monitoring of our systems
• Versatility: interest to work on a variety of software engineering tasks – not only backend and frontend but also DevOps tasks
• Continuous Improvement: You continuously aim for improvement to bring yourself and the company forward. You’re expected to learn with us, from us and teach us. You’ll ask, make experiments and fail with courage. If things go to shred – don’t worry we have you covered
• Bring your Strengths: Show us what you are good at and help us to use your strengths and skills to build a stronger team. You’ll do so by taking ownership of our platform and take an active part planning and building the platform

Profile

• Degree in computer science, alternatively completion of coding academy or bootcamp or proven track record in the field
• 2+ years experience working in software engineering 
• You believe that great things are achieved by a team rather than by an individual
• Experience with Java, CI Pipelines, Kubernetes and Cloud. Typescript is a plus
• Experience with software engineering practices such as TDD, Continuous Delivery and Kanban
• Very good communications skills in English
• You’re not afraid to apply even if you do not tick all the boxes

Our Tech Environment: 

This is just for your understanding of the tools we use. We do not expect you to know and understand all of them 

•  Frontend: Vue.js and Typescript
  •    Backend: Java/Spring Boot/JPA and Typescript (although moving to Java). ElasticSearch, MariaDB
  •    ERP: S/4 HANA
  •    Operations: Azure Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

Our ambition is to build a robust, resilient and sustainable platform for the years to come. To achieve that, we utilize test driven development, continuous delivery and trunk-based development (although Git is our VCS). In addition, we take active steps to keep our tech clean and remove deprecated parts from our systems. We use Kanban as agile methodology.

Benefits

• Being part of a dynamic, international and experienced team in an inspirational environment
• Flat hierarchies and an excellent working atmosphere in state-of-the-art facilities in the heart of Berlin 
• Support in growing your professional skills by coaching, pair programming, regular feedback as well as learning & development opportunities
• Flexible working time model with remote work and home office possibility
• Competitive Salary, 30 days’ vacation, personal training & development opportunities
• BVG Job Tickets, JobBike, Modern Equipement

Diversity at Ottobock

For us, the focus is on treating each other with respect and enjoying our work. We value diversity and therefore expressly welcome all applications regardless of gender, age, nationality, disability, ethnicity and social origin, religious beliefs or sexual orientation. This includes special consideration for severely disabled individuals with equal suitability.

Your future at Ottobock

Ottobock’s products and services in prosthetics and orthotics as well as human mobility and patient care ensure independence and quality of life when personal mobility is restricted. With around 8,000 employees in more than 50 countries, our company is the world market leader in technical orthopaedics.

Your ideas and commitment will inspire your colleagues and staff, and will further the interests of Ottobock. Be part of a dynamic, growing company with flat hierarchies. We offer a richly diverse field of work, individual development opportunities and extensive qualification programs in our Ottobock Academy.

Please only apply via our online job portal at jobs.ottobock.com. Please quote the Job-ID for the position in question, and also state your earliest starting date and salary requirements. We look forward to receiving your application!

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