Summary
Staff Engineer at idealo, a CRM tech company, shaping the technical foundation for identity resolution, subscriptions, and data flows. Requires expertise in cloud-native architecture, event-driven systems, microservices, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS. You will lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers in a cloud-native environment.
- Location
- Berlin
- Type
- full-time
- Level
- Senior
Reliable data, resilient services and scalable architectures are at the heart of every CRM interaction at idealo. As a Staff Engineer, you'll shape the technical foundation behind identity resolution, subscriptions, data flows, and message delivery while ensuring GDPR compliance and supporting personalized user experiences.
This role combines backend engineering, data engineering and architectural leadership. You'll influence how data flows across systems, how services communicate through event-driven architectures, and how technical decisions support idealo's long-term CRM strategy. Working closely with Software Engineers, Data Engineers and Product Managers, you'll help define technical direction across multiple domains.
You'll work with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Braze, Snowflake and AWS services including Glue, Lambda and S3 in a modern cloud-native architecture. From data ingestion and transformation to customer-facing activation, you'll help build reliable systems that teams across idealo depend on every day. When new CRM capabilities go live, you'll see the direct impact of your work in millions of customer interactions.
The position is available in full or part-time.
About your new role
Design, implement, maintain, and evolve reliable and scalable software systems and data flows for CRM and user engagement use cases.
Stay hands-on by designing and developing cloud-native microservices, event-driven applications and backend services with a strong focus on performance, security and operational excellence.
Lead technical initiatives within and across the team to align technical solutions with business needs.
Drive continuous improvements across software development, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability, and monitoring while evaluating new technologies where they add measurable value.
Mentor engineers through technical guidance, architecture discussions and code reviews, fostering a collaborative engineering culture focused on sustainable technical excellence.
Staff Engineer (m|w|d) - CRM Tech
idealo · Berlin