Software Engineering (PID0638)

This is a remote position.

Software Engineering (PID0638) Infrastructure / ICE Platform Team

• Contract / Freelance
  
• Full-time
  
• Remote with travel readiness required (Germany)
  
• Start: 01/07/2026
  

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Python Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Product Line of a large internal platform programme in the energy sector. Working within the ICE (Infrastructure Cloud Engine) team, you will implement component architecture, drive software development efforts and provide technical leadership within a cloud-native, hybrid platform environment.

What you'll be doing

• Writing production-grade Python code to implement architectural design specifications, including unit tests and code documentation
  
• Making and communicating technical decisions within boundaries set by the architecture design
  
• Generating and communicating status reports to architects and delivery stakeholders
  
• Facilitating meetings and presenting technical concepts to mid-sized audiences
  
• Providing guidance to other development stakeholders and ensuring on-time delivery of features and software components
  
• Participating in agile ceremonies and promoting agile ways of working
  
• Identifying and driving continuous improvement opportunities within the development process
  
• Coordinating with portfolio and platform stakeholders across network, compute, storage and hardware
  

Requirements

What you'll need

• 8+ years of professional software development experience using high-level programming languages
  
• Advanced Python (3.9+) proficiency including strong command of async programming (asyncio, aiohttp), multiprocessing and concurrency models
  
• Extensive experience with FastAPI for building scalable APIs and services
  
• Expertise in modular software design with an emphasis on separation of concerns and maintainable codebases
  
• Strong grasp of type hinting, dependency injection and automated testing frameworks (pytest, unittest)
  
• Experience across multiple database paradigms: relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB, ArangoDB/Neo4J) and database libraries such as SQLAlchemy
  
• Deep understanding of microservice design principles including service boundaries, inter-service communication (REST, gRPC, message queues) and API design
  
• Solid understanding of application and API security principles including OAuth2 and OIDC
  
• Fluent English, spoken and written (C1 minimum)
  

Desirable

• Experience designing schema and data models per service and managing data consistency and performance in microservice environments
  
• Hands-on experience containerising services
  

Benefits