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zvoove

Software Engineer – Backend & Platform, AI-First Engineering

zvoove

. Design and build modern backend services and platform capabilities around an established Payroll product .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeMunich • GermanyMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cloud.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design and build modern backend services and platform capabilities around an established Payroll product
  • Build APIs and integration points for modern applications and workflows
  • Modernize the product incrementally rather than through a big-bang rewrite
  • Work with existing engineers and Payroll domain experts to understand and safely evolve proven business logic
  • Establish engineering practices around automated testing, observability, code quality and maintainability
  • Use AI throughout the software development lifecycle to understand codebases, analyze dependencies and behavior, explore solutions, accelerate implementation, generate and improve tests, and review code and documentation
  • Help define AI-first software engineering practices across the team
  • Collaborate with external Web/UI engineers while retaining internal ownership of core product architecture and engineering quality
  • Contribute to technical architecture and modernization decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Several years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong backend development skills in a modern programming language and ecosystem
  • Experience designing APIs, services and integration-oriented systems
  • Solid understanding of software architecture, clean boundaries and maintainable system design
  • Comfortable working with existing or complex systems, not only greenfield products
  • Ability to take ownership from technical problem through implementation and production
  • Strong automated-testing mindset
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Willingness to work closely with product and domain experts
  • Practical experience using modern AI coding tools or engineering agents in day-to-day development
  • Ability to critically assess AI-generated output
  • Experience in modernization of large or long-lived software products, strangler/incremental migration approaches, cloud and container-based environments, asynchronous processing, high-compliance or business-critical software, legacy integration, developer platforms or internal tooling is a plus
  • Experience with C#/.NET, especially for backend services, APIs or modernization of established applications, is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Collaboration within an empathetic and supportive team
  • Opportunities to use your knowledge and personal strengths and continue developing your skills
  • Structured onboarding process
  • Training sessions and informal learning formats
  • Working in interdisciplinary and international teams
  • Hybrid work concept including working in the office, from home, on the move and on workations
  • Modern tech stack
  • Agile working methods
  • Pension scheme
  • Health management
  • Staff discounts
  • Well-behaved dogs welcome at all locations