Leoben or fully remote

We are the creators of AURENA, the fastest growing auction platform in central Europe with more than 400,000 corporate and private bidders. Our mission is to build the best auction experience in the digital world and to deliver thrill and excitement to our users. We are a scale-up business, already the market leader in Austria, and now expanding in Europe.

Join our dedicated team – let’s build to thrill together.

Your opportunity

We are looking for a highly experienced Back-End Engineer responsible for feature development and continuous improvement of our leading real-time auction platform. Your primary focus will be to develop new features and performance improvements for our existing event-driven middleware and microservices, and build highly scalable greenfield services.

This role is a senior appointment that offers you the opportunity to lead middleware and microservice development at AURENA Tech.

Your area of responsibility
Development of high-performance, horizontally scalable, Node.js and Java services in an event-driven distributed architecture using Kafka
Writing clean, idiomatic, well-documented code
Ensuring excellent test coverage via unit, integration and system tests
Designing and writing asynchronous code paths that need to incorporate graceful failure modes under peak load
Propose and evaluate alternate system designs and advocate for best fit
What makes you the right candidate?
At least 6 years of experience in the development of production-grade applications in either Node.js, Java or C++
Comfortable working in an event-driven microservice architecture
Experienced in interacting with databases (PostgreSQL, Redis)
Familiarity with one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
Experienced designing and implementing REST and GraphQL APIs
Ability to quickly learn new technologies and extend boundaries
Committed, conscientious personality with the ability to direct others
Excellent communication and collaboration skills in English, no German skills required
Enjoy autonomy and a responsible, self-directed way of working
EU citizen or valid work permit for the EU
Country of residence: Austria or Germany
Summary
Location

In-office: Leoben (Austria)
Remote: Full or partial remote work possible (Place of residence: Austria or Germany)

Type

Fulltime, permanent
Weekly hours of work 38.5 hours
Overtime compensation for 5 hours per week included in salary

Salary

Salary range starts at EUR 69,300 gross per year
We offer a higher salary in line with your experience and skills.

Latest tech equipment

Team activities

Resources for training and conferences

Public transport expenses

Free drinks, snacks and popcorn

Your application

Applying at AURENA Tech is pretty straightforward. After submitting the application form, you can expect a response directly from the Tech team within a few days.

Any further questions?
Jürgen Blematl
Director AURENA Tech
+ 43 676 757 80 70
j.blematl@aurena.tech