We're on the lookout for a curious, upbeat and dedicated Senior Software Engineer to join our team! At Spotlight, we automate processes within our procurement service platform and build critical components using REST/RMI APIs.
You'll work alongside some passionate tech professionals in a collaborative environment on some of our most business-critical software components. If you are keen on getting your hands dirty with different Backend, Frontend, Cloud add DevOps technologies then we would like to talk to you!

Your role

• Be a team player: As a team within an agile environment, we work with a high degree of autonomy and strive to be a high performing, self-managed and self-organized team. We encourage Pair programming, mob programming - we work together and do things together
• Add value: You'll design, develop and maintain solutions that help optimizing our processes all around the Order Fulfilment process (e.g. dispatch notifications, invoices) and cross cutting processes
• Shape our engineering culture: You'll contribute to cross-team initiatives to define architectural guidelines, evaluate new technologies, and establish best practices
• Craftsmanship: You'll foster a security-first mindset and ensure robust, reliable, clean and testable code
• Cross-functional collaboration: You'll analyse complex business requirements and work in close cooperation with the product team to translate them into production-ready code

Your qualifications

• Your background: You’re experienced with developing web applications in Java
• Agile mindset: You demonstrate excellent collaboration skills particularly in Agile software development and remote distributed team environment.
• Strategic thinking: You have the confidence and maturity to maintain and modernize business-critical legacy code
• Ownership: You're proficient with DevOps tools and practices and experienced in supporting the operation of highly-available web services
• Be on the pulse: You're committed to continuous learning and knowledge sharing; you keep up to date with the latest trends and technologies

What you can expect from us

• Be a part of our agile working style : Our open communication and quick decision-making processes allow our teams to work autonomously
• We offer a flexible work location : You can work in one of our modern Unite offices or remotely – or even do a mix of both
• Workation : You can work abroad for up to 2 months, which is a great way to extend your time away or visit your family and friends in other countries
• Enjoy our Unite culture : We invite you to be yourself, join our table tennis league or online games and have fun
• We think long-term : You can and absolutely should invest an average of 10% of your working time into self-education and your own further training – that’s why we are great believers in offering creative freedom. You’ll also get access to our internal learning platform to grow your career
• Build with a rich and evolving technology ecosystem: AWS, Spring Boot, Gitlab or Wicket are just a few to mention. Also, we have a fully integrated CI/CD pipeline in Gitlab.

We are Unite.

Would you like to become a part of Unite?

Our company was founded as Mercateo in 2000 and the headquarters is located in Leipzig, Germany. We operate in 12 European countries, with over 700 employees working both in-office and remotely. In 2024, we achieved revenue of €448.7 million. For more information, visit unite.eu .