Lead Engineer (f/m/x) – Client Access
D.B. Group17 hours ago
Berlin, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with Engineering, QA, Production Support, and Operations from design through go-live.
- Define monitoring, dashboards, telemetry, and actionable alerting using Splunk, Kibana, and Geneos.
- Design supportability for high-volume event-driven services, including retry, replay, idempotency, reconciliation, message correlation, queue and backlog monitoring, and capacity controls.
- Translate failure modes into alerts, runbooks, recovery procedures, support-acceptance criteria, and post-release production checks.
- Improve unit, component, contract, integration, performance, end-to-end, rollback, and recovery testing.
- Lead technical incident and problem analysis and drive sustainable corrective actions.
- Contribute hands-on to implementation, architecture, design reviews, and code reviews across globally distributed teams.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience developing in Java or Kotlin for complex distributed systems.
- Proven experience supporting high-volume payment, trading, or financial-messaging platforms in production.
- Deep knowledge of observability and monitoring, including Splunk, Kibana, Geneos, telemetry design, dashboards, and alerting.
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures using Kafka and MQ, including retries, replay, idempotency, and reconciliation.
- Experience with incident management, root-cause analysis, operational readiness, recovery automation, and runbook development.
- Solid software engineering background covering testing, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Oracle, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Production Support, and Operations teams.
- Ability to use AI tools to improve productivity and workflows while applying responsible and ethical judgment to data and AI outputs.
Benefits
- Mental health consultations and awareness training.
- Health check-ups, vaccination drives, and healthy-living and nutrition advice.
- PME family service, fitness support, flexible working, part-time work, hybrid working, and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
- Pension plans, banking services, a company bicycle, Deutschlandticket, employee rates, and personalized financial advice.
- The role is available in full-time and part-time arrangements, with flexible and hybrid working options.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About D.B. Group
D.B. Group is an Italian freight forwarder and logistics provider offering air, ocean, road, and rail transport, customs brokerage, and supply chain management for global shippers. Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Montebelluna, Veneto, it is privately held and operates through 79 subsidiaries with a worldwide partner network. The company delivers end-to-end forwarding and integrated logistics services, from consolidation and warehousing to door-to-door deliveries and trade compliance.