Senior/Staff Software Engineer (d/f/m)

• Location: Munich, Germany
• Employment Type: Full-Time, indefinite term
• Salary Range: € 95.000 - 135.000 per year gross depending on the seniority level
• Office-first work setup
• Language Requirement: C1 Level English

• Drive the technical vision and long-term architectural strategy for our optimization platform end-to-end, across dimensions such as data ingestion and processing, optimization logic implementation, battery control, automated power trading, accounting and settlement
• Lead complex, cross-system initiatives that span multiple teams and engineering domains, owning design decisions that have organization-wide impact
• Act as a force multiplier: mentor senior and junior engineers alike, elevate the engineering capabilities of the broader team, and establish patterns that scale beyond your immediate projects
• Define, evangelize, and enforce engineering best practices across teams; lead technical design reviews and coach engineers and data scientists on how to design and deliver well-built, maintainable, iterable solutions
• Identify and resolve systemic technical issues, technical debt, and architectural bottlenecks before they become blockers for the organization
• Support colleagues during onboarding, daily operations, and strategic tasks; serve as a go-to technical authority for critical decisions
• Implementation of our optimization and trading algorithms with focus on immediate go-lives as well as strategic, long-term focussed advancement of our platform
• Maintain and improve our tech stack and development environments and build infrastructure, from how services are developed and tested, to how they are built and integrated, to how they are monitored

• 5+ years experience in Software Engineering (Backend and algorithmic) in the cloud
• 2-3 years experience with Python including object-oriented design
• 2+ years experience in onboarding, mentoring and coaching colleagues in junior positions
• Evidence of pragmatic delivery
• Experience working cross-functionally, especially with Product and Data Science teams
• Team player to effectively bring across complex ideas and concepts with an ability to work on solutions individually
• Experience and desire to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Strategic and analytical thinking, with the ability to zoom out to long-term vision and zoom in to implementation detail
• Full business proficiency in English

• Familiarity with AWS cloud platform, and services like Lambda, ECS, and other core AWS services used to build scalable, reliable backend systems.
• Energy industry experience
• Design thinking/sprint  experience

• You don’t have the habit of defining your own tasks and expect other functions to do them
• You are used to working in clear separate functions (software engineering, data science, product, ...)

• Competitive Compensation Package: Including salary, benefits and options
• Professional Development: Annual development budget of 3,000 € for coachings, trainings, books, etc.
• Health & Sport Subsidy: Company subsidised sports facilities membership
• Public Transportation Subsidy: Monthly subsidy to your public transport ticket
• Lunch/Dinner Allowance Vouchers: Allowance for meals on working days as digital meal vouchers
• Work Equipment: Mac Book or Windows Laptop and ergonomic workplace
• Regular Team Events: Knowledge Sessions, Afterwork, Sports, Offsites, Halloween, Pride Month, etc.

I’m an engineering leader with 20+ years of software engineering experience across enterprise software, cloud platforms, developer tools, remote desktop, and engineering management. I have worked as an individual contributor, tech lead, and people manager, giving me a strong balance of hands-on technical depth and leadership experience.

Most recently, I led a 13-engineer team at Microsoft, delivering flagship features for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop, including Windows App, Windows 365 web client, Boot-to-CloudPC, and Windows 365 Switch, while maintaining Remote Desktop clients used by millions of users.  

My leadership style focuses on clear ownership, customer impact, pragmatic engineering standards, and growing engineers through trust, feedback, and meaningful challenges.

• At Microsoft(2011 - 2024), I grew from senior software engineer to tech lead and principal engineering manager. Most recently, I built and led a 13-engineer team delivering key Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop experiences, while maintaining Remote Desktop clients used by millions. Earlier, I worked on Azure IoT, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, Linq2Sql, ClickOnce, Visual Studio, open-source projects, and developer experience improvements.  

• At Wicresoft(2004 - 2011), I grew from software engineer to engineering lead and senior group manager. I led enterprise software delivery teams, managed Microsoft outsourcing projects with 50+ developers, built new products from the ground up, supported business planning, managed project delivery and margins, and mentored junior engineers.