Atos

Lead Software Developer (m/f/d)

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18 days ago
Vienna, AustriaStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a software engineering team through hands-on technical direction, architecture alignment, code reviews, and developer development.
  • Design and evolve horizontally scalable, cloud-native services targeting 99.999% uptime and eliminating single points of failure.
  • Build resilient event-driven systems using high-throughput distributed messaging for concurrent data and media streams.
  • Architect event-sourced services and CQRS-style read/write models with deterministic, replayable state and recovery.
  • Drive security-by-design, including encryption, key management, authentication, authorization, and secure handling of sensitive traffic.
  • Develop backend systems in Go, C++, Java, or C# while establishing quality and validation guardrails for AI-generated code.
  • Oversee containerization, service orchestration, secure service-to-service communication, serialization, and low-latency networking.
  • Troubleshoot distributed-tracing and architectural bottlenecks and optimize services for sub-second responses and high concurrency.
  • Collaborate with Product, QA, and DevOps teams on CI/CD execution and delivery of critical features.
  • Champion AI-assisted coding tools and agentic development workflows with appropriate production-safety controls.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership or team-lead capacity.
  • At least 5 years of hands-on enterprise software development in Go, C++, Java, or C#, with Go strongly preferred.
  • Proven experience designing and operating horizontally scalable, event-driven distributed systems using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
  • Practical experience with event sourcing, CQRS architectures, deterministic state machines, and replay-based recovery.
  • Production experience deploying, scaling, and managing services with Kubernetes or Docker.
  • Deep knowledge of fault tolerance, circuit breaking, load balancing, and high-availability data replication.
  • Working knowledge of applied cryptography, key management, TLS/mTLS, and secure-by-design principles.
  • Strong expertise designing RESTful APIs and asynchronous event schemas with OpenAPI and AsyncAPI.
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills and the ability to explain distributed-systems concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with formal specifications, compliance-driven verification, LLM-backed developer tools, autonomous coding agents, 3GPP or ETSI standards, MCx, FRMCS, real-time media, TCP/UDP optimization, VoIP, WebSockets, gRPC, hybrid or private cloud, Terraform, and critical-infrastructure or public-safety systems.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working arrangement with headquarters in Vienna.
  • Opportunity to solve complex distributed-systems and high-reliability engineering problems.
  • Autonomy and support to introduce agentic development workflows into production.
  • Work on secure, mission-critical software used by international clients.
  • Supportive, innovation-driven culture emphasizing clean architecture, strong tooling, and continuous learning.
  • Annual gross salary of approximately €90,000, with the target determined according to market rates, qualifications, and experience.
  • Inclusive workplace programs and equal-opportunity commitments.
Atos

About Atos

10,000+ employees

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 56,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion (at the go-forward perimeter), operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris. Atos is the services brand of Atos Group, delivering AI powered, secure and end to end digital services to public and private organizations worldwide. Atos designs, builds and run digital environments that are critical to performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping clients keep control of their data, infrastructure and compliance, with clear accountability from strategy to operations. With more than 54,000 people serving 4,500+ clients in 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity and enable secure digital workplaces, delivering impact for clients, employees and society at large. Atos offers end-to-end IT services across the cloud, cybersecurity, data and AI, application services, smart platforms and digital workplace, as well as localized consulting and advisory services under its brand Atos Amplify. Atos is trusted to operate complex, business-critical environments, especially in regulated and sovereign contexts.

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