(Senior) Software Engineer (m/f/d) Industrial IoT

ABOUT THE TEAM We are an international team building KINEXON OS, the operating system that optimizes visibility and transparency of industrial moving assets. Our platform captures real-time location data and provides dynamic workflows, delivering actionable insights for production and logistics. KINEXON OS is open, flexible, and scalable, enabling full visibility into supply chains and dynamic tracking of assets for swift operational decision-making. It aggregates position and identification data from various sources and enriches it with contextual information from third-party IT/OT systems such as ERP, MES, and WMS. Join us to shape the backbone of a platform that powers digital transformation in manufacturing and logistics worldwide. YOUR QUALIFICATIONS For this opportunity, we are looking for someone with: Completion of a university degree or comparable qualification Solid backend development experience in a compiled, strongly typed language (e.g. C++ or Go); openness to Python & Node.js for some services Comfortable reading and learning code in other languages in the stack Experience with Kafka (producers/consumers, topics, partitions, schema evolution, error handling, monitoring) Strong SQL skills (PostgreSQL): schema design, query optimization, indexing, transactions Experience with test automation and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines Containerization: building/debugging Docker images, orchestration with Docker Swarm; Kubernetes basics is a plus GitLab CI/CD: writing and maintaining pipelines, build/test automation Linux: solid command-line skills, process/network debugging, scripting Understanding of distributed system fundamentals: message ordering, fault tolerance, backpressure, eventual consistency Clear communication in English (German optional) Hands-on experience using GenAI tools for coding and a strong curiosity about AI-driven developer productivity Nice-to-have: Frontend familiarity (Angular/TypeScript) for debugging and small changes Knowledge of other pub-sub or in-memory solutions (Redis, NATS, ZeroMQ ) Kubernetes hands-on deployment, Helm basics Tracing/observability tools ( OpenTelemetry , Jaeger, Zipkin, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK) Security basics: secrets management, TLS in service communication YOUR TASKS Design and implement APIs and data processing workers within our <span data-ccp-parastyle="