Staff Engineer

Job DescriptionWe are looking for a passionate and experienced Staff Engineer to co-lead our modernization efforts, drive innovation, and play a key role in our product evolution.
Your expertise in cloud technologies, legacy system migrations, and microservices will help modernize our architecture and enhance scalability, ensuring the continued growth of Feegow and Docplanner Group.RoleAs a Staff Engineer in this area, youll be fully responsible and accountable for leading impactful and complex cross-group and cross-area technical initiatives, ensuring high-quality solutions with high operational standards.
Youll also actively partner with Engineering Managers and other tech counterparts to shape the direction of our area and the company as a whole.
The role reports directly to the Engineering Director.We are committed to continuous improvement, open feedback, and working efficiently towards our goals.
This role provides an opportunity to actively contribute to the technical direction of the area.Our tech stack at Docplanner Tech includes .
Net, PHP, and Vue/React, running on Kubernetes in AWS.
While expertise in these technologies isnt required, this is a very technical and hands-on role, for which strong communication skills and experience influencing technical decisions are also essential to effectively support the teams.What you will be doingLead and drive technical initiatives that impact area level directions (~5 teams).
Actively partner with your Engineering Manager / Tech lead counterparts and engineering teams, as well as working closely with the leaders of the area/company to develop an effective technical strategy.Provide accountability for all the technical initiatives led.Act as a point of reference for our Engineering teams.Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching inside the team.QualificationsYoure likely a great fit for this role if you:Have a solid technical background related to the whole SDLC principles and practices (Agile/CD, Lean, SRE, DevOps) and can support and unblock engineering teams in complex technical discussions.Legacy software modernization and migration: proven experience in modernizing and migrating legacy systems to modern architectures.Approach software development with a lean, proactive, and positive mindset, balancing impact and long-term sustainable development, with a strong accountability for delivering high-quality solutions.Have a strong experience in backend development with a holistic understanding of full-stack systems.Experience in cross-team initiative and creating buy-in for technical initiatives.Believe in continuous learning and improvement.Have experience not only designing/implementing/delivering high-quality and impactful solutions, but also guiding and mentoring less experienced engineers.Also Relevant for the role:Domain Driven Design.Expertise in AWS to help shaping our cloud infrastructure.Ability to oversee database optimizations (MySQL) for scalable solutions.Cloud-native architectures using microservices and serverless along with interaction styles, as synchronous and asynchronous communication, data streaming, and API technologies and lifecycle management.Advanced English skills: comfortable communicating in written and verbal English across global teams.Previous experience in consulting is a plus.Important: Docplanner is an international English-first company.
Therefore, please be sure to send your CV in EnglishAdditional Information