I'm looking for a software engineering job.

Inga is looking for a job

I'm looking for a software engineering job.
I'm best described as a "Staff Software Engineer", but I'm very much willing to consider lower-level positions (as long as they pay around the average software engineer salary for Berlin; I don't really need mountains of gold), it's not really about the title. Even if you hire me into a middle-level role, a few months later you'll likely find that I'm doing what you'd expect from a Staff engineer.

Covid is not over, so I only consider mostly remote work for now (occasional (monthly) visits to the office within 10 hours one-way from Berlin, or rare (quarterly) visits within 24 hours one-way from Berlin are fine, "hybrid" roles requiring weekly office presence even in Berlin are not).

My area of work is working long-term on large-scale products mapping real world to software, with complex business requirements, expectations of maintainability etc.
If you are building for example a payment system of the future or CRM for healthcare companies, I'm the right person; if you are building Linux kernel drivers, I'm not (it would be an interesting challenge for me, but you are looking for another kind of person). If you are a product company, I'm the right person; if you are software house where people jump projects and clients multiple times a year, I'm not.

My career in professional software engineering started 20 years ago, it includes many years of working as a Systems Architect and Tech Lead and Team Lead (but I get my hands dirty with code anyway).
I spent most of my time writing code, but my work, what I'm good at, typically also involves interacting with product owner to identify the problems we are trying to solve (and to come up with business requirements), coming up with technical / architectural design for these requirements, improving the quality of the codebase (I pay a lot of attention to quality and maintainability), doing large refactorings, mentoring other developers, helping them to improve quality of their work, reducing friction of their work by addressing their developer experience pains (including CI/CD stuff); and generally taking a lot of responsibility.
My strong side is understanding the entire system and identifying ideal clear boundaries between components and then bringing these boundaries to life. I have stellar feedback from coworkers at basically all the previous workplaces.

I'm most proficient in webdev with Node.js / TypeScript / React (can work on backend and on frontend, prefer full-stack roles with focus on backend, but I'm pretty flexible on that). To the point that when coworkers have any questions about or any problems with TypeScript or React, I'm the one they approach. To the point that when a company wants to migrate their legacy JS app to typescript but doesn't think this is really possible or manageable because of the scope, I can deliver the impossible all by my own, within much shorter timeframe than they expect, and do it while preserving perfect backwards compatibility but also actually leveraging the benefits of TS (using strictest TS mode with strictest linting).
Additionally, I was proficient with C#/.NET/ASP.NET, but my skills in that area are a bit outdated. I'm open to working with and learning other stacks as well (especially interested in stuff like Zig, Rust, Scheme / Lisp, Elixir, F# etc; way less interested in stuff like PHP, Python or Ruby), but of course in this case I won't be able to make architectural or code quality decisions for new platforms, not at first at least.

I'm open to pretty much all reasonable industries (exceptions are working on generative AI bullshit, cryptocurrencies bullshit, fossil fuels, gambling, cops... you get the idea). But also, as an added bonus, I have a lot of experience in fintechs.

I can start pretty much immediately; and my CV is way better than you expect.
I also tend to hyperfocus on development and to care a lot, so you'll get way better and comprehensive results than you expect.

Anybody looking for someone like me to add to their team (in EU / Germany, as a full time employee)?

CV upon request, some examples of my work on personal projects are at https://oomza.cutegay.software/inga-lovinde

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maybeanerd

@IngaLovinde my team recently got all our open positions cut 🥲
But I'll keep you in mind when new things pop up, you could also look around potential open positions in the rest of our company:
https://www.iu-careers.com/en/jobs/

If you end up deciding to apply, I could prob speed the proccess up with a recommendation

Inga is looking for a job

@maybeanerd thank you!
Are you using different stacks in different teams?

maybeanerd

@IngaLovinde we 95% use TypeScript+Nest.js in the backend and TypeScript+Vue.js(3) in the frontend.
Some Teams use nuxt3 (Marketing) and e.g. our cluster is building Microfrontends (same stack, but more on top)

There are very few php and react projects flying around AFAIK

Inga is looking for a job

@maybeanerd ah I see. Their only developer role right now asks for a deep understanding of Java and Symphony/Laravel/PHP, I was wondering if this is about all teams or just this single one, or maybe if this is even a case of job description not matching the actual skills the team wants (since you're saying that there are very few php projects and don't mention any java projects)?

maybeanerd

@IngaLovinde I guess that's either some very small project within the company that i've never heard about, or a mistake, yes