Software Development Engineer - Backend - Remote

Overview

The Messaging Tribe at LivePerson builds the core infrastructure powering billions of real-time conversations between consumers and brands. Our teams own mission-critical services such as agent matching, and conversation lifecycle management. As an Software Development Engineer, you’ll contribute to the design and development of scalable backend systems using Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, and GCP. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll collaborate across teams, solve complex problems at scale, and help drive our migration to a cloud-native, stateless architecture.

In Short

• Improve and optimize existing functionality of the messaging platform.
• Implement new features using Java and Spring.
• Assist in migrating the service to cloud-native solutions.
• Use the latest technologies to solve unique problems for our customers at scale.
• Work and collaborate with great engineers with experience in varieties of fields.
• Maintain >99.999% uptime of mission-critical messaging service.
• Contribute to the team’s on-call rotation and improve rapid-response coverage.

Requirements

• Java 8/11/17, Spring
• Couch base, Redis, Elasticsearch, Hadoop
• Apache Kafka
• Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet
• GCP, AWS, and On-Premises infrastructure (Hybrid)
• TeamCity, Jenkins
• Vault, Terraform, OAuth2.0 Provider, and many more

Benefits

• Personal time off 33 days - Vacation (28 days) and care days (5)
• Additional Pension scheme, deferred pension scheme (LivePerson contributes 20%), ESPP and annual bonus depending on achievements
• Internet and Mobile reimbursement
• Be flexible, work flexibly and from anywhere - no defined working hours or boundaries
• Remote first company with offices in Mannheim and Berlin
• Modern equipment (MacBook Pro)
• Volunteering Days – Use them to make a difference in your community.
• Monthly connection: Join our monthly connection pizza day in the office!
• We were awarded by Great Place to Work
• If you want to have more information about us you can check: https://www.kununu.com/de/liveperson2 and our career homepage.