SIXT
mobility
StaffJavaDeveloper(m/f/d)
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“Staff Java Developer (m/f/d) at SIXT. Skills: modern Java, Spring Boot, backend services, microservices, event-driven architectures, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, observability, performance, security, testing, developer experience. design, build, and evolve reliable and scalable backend services in modern Java and Spring Boot. stay hands-on in code”
What You'll Achieve.
deliver robust customer-facing solutions; improve quality, speed, or developer experience with AI-assisted tooling
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
deep experience building backend services with modern Java and Spring Boot, comfortable operating at Staff level across architecture, implementation, and cross-team technical leadership, experienced in microservices and event-driven architectures, know how to design for reliability, scalability, idempotency, and long-term maintainability, worked with PostgreSQL, JPA/Hibernate, Flyway, Redis, and Kafka, understand how to choose the right persistence and messaging patterns for the problem, comfortable owning services in production environments and improving them through observability, metrics, alerting, CI/CD, and Kubernetes-based operations, comfortable using AI-assisted tools thoughtfully and know how to apply them in ways that remain reviewable, reliable, and useful in day-to-day engineering work
Nice to Have
experience with React, experience with TypeScript, experience with micro-frontends, experience with end-to-end feature delivery
What You'll Do.
and evolve reliable and scalable backend services in modern Java and Spring Boot
stay hands-on in code
lead cross-team technical initiatives
drive topics from idea to production
work across REST and gRPC APIs
and shared platform libraries
raise the bar on architecture
and developer experience
use AI-assisted tooling pragmatically
define sensible engineering practices around AI-assisted tooling
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
collaborate closely with product managers and cross-functional team members across backend, web, and mobile; mentor engineers through technical leadership, reviews, and knowledge sharing
Process & Methodology
drive topics from idea to production
Full Job Description
You want to work on the core of high-impact mobility experiences, drive topics across multiple product and platform areas, and shape the future architecture of a broad Java backend landscape? Then join us and help evolve the systems behind digital checkout, post-booking journeys, customer self-service, and the shared platform capabilities around them. We are building and operating business-critical backend services with a strong focus on scalability, resilience, observability, and testability. Join us in Pullach near Munich and help shape the future of mobility with us! YOUR ROLE AT SIXT * You design, build, and evolve reliable and scalable backend services in modern Java and Spring Boot across multiple product areas and shared platform capabilities * You stay hands-on in code, lead cross-team technical initiatives, and drive topics from idea to production with clear business impact * You work across REST and gRPC APIs, event-driven flows, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Flyway, and shared platform libraries to deliver robust customer-facing solutions * You raise the bar on architecture, observability, performance, security, testing, and developer experience in a cloud-native environment with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern engineering guardrails * You collaborate closely with product managers and cross-functional team members across backend, web, and mobile, and you mentor engineers through strong technical leadership, reviews, and knowledge sharing * You use AI-assisted tooling pragmatically where it improves quality, speed, or developer experience, and you help define sensible engineering practices around it YOUR SKILLS MATTER * Experience You have deep experience building backend services with modern Java and Spring Boot, and you are comfortable operating at Staff level across architecture, implementation, and cross-team technical leadership * Architecture You are experienced in microservices and event-driven architectures, and you know how to design for reliability, sc
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