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Senior Fullstack Developer (m/f/d)

Tech & Engineering
Frankfurt am Main + 8 more locations
Full Time
Permanent
Experienced Professionals
Students between class
When applying for this position, you will have the opportunity to indicate your preferred work location from the following: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Remote, Stuttgart

Grow with us – Start your career at IU International University!

Support our innovative Pilots & Implementation Team remotely across Germany, preferably in Frankfurt, starting immediately in full-time as Senior Fullstack Developer (m/f/d).

Your tasks
  • Take over responsibility for the full stack development of a complex AI/NLP (Natural Language Processing) and data-driven education engine.

  • Implementing scalable and cloud-native solutions (preferably AWS).

  • Design, build and maintain data transformations efficiently and reliably for different purposes (e.g., reporting, growth analysis, multi-dimensional analysis).

  • Design, implement and maintain reliable, scalable, robust, and extensible big data systems that support core products and business.

  • Explore new technologies & analyze and solve problems.

Your profile
  • You have a lean start-up mentality and want to help us revolutionize the conventional education system within an enormously successful company.

  • Interest in understanding functional insights behind epics and user stories.

  • Experience with Python in a cloud-native environment.

  • Strong knowledge of state-of-the-art data structures and algorithms for frontend & backend, proficient in at least one coding language, including but not limited to Python, Typescript, React.JS.

  • Experience in AWS/GCP, understanding IaC principles. AWS CloudFormation is a plus.

  • You're familiar with different database types (relational, key-value, document, NewSQL etc.) and understand their strengths and weaknesses.

  • You're familiar with REST fundamentals and API design best practices.

  • Experience with the Big Data technologies is a plus (Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Metastore, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink etc).

  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and building prototypes, MVPs, and final products.

  • You embrace uncertainty and learning about users to adapt the solution or pivot.

  • Fluent English especially in writing, speaking German is a plus.

We offer
  • Localhost: You have free choice of hardware and IDE.

  • Shape your career: Rapid growth opens up many new opportunities for you. Tell us about your dream career and we'll help you make it happen.

  • Work from wherever you want …: Project management tools (e.g. Scrum) and video meetings make it possible: with IU, the boundaries between here and there blur. You want to work from abroad for a while? No problem thanks to our WorkFlex benefits.

  • … and flexible time: It's your job: We trust you and give you the greatest possible freedom to organize yourself.

  • You have the choice: You are free to choose your equipment, because everyone has its own preferences when it comes to hardware.

  • Take your knowledge to a new level: Benefit from a 100% discount on tuition fees for an IU combined degree in the tech sector and many other free training courses. There is always something new to learn.

  • Get a good rest: we push ourselves every day to go above and beyond. But we also take the time to recharge our batteries: with 30 days of annual vacation for all employees. Need some time off? What about a sabbatical?

Become part of our Pilots & Implementation ​Team at Germany's largest university! We develop innovative solutions to further increase our efficiency and productivity – through automation, higher clocking, and better monitoring of our processes.

Sounds like the perfect job for you? Then apply now!

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Lutz at lutz.behler@iu.org.

Words are followed by actions: We take our "Culture Of Everyone" very seriously and would like to take this opportunity to expressly point out that you are welcome to join us, regardless of your origin, religion, gender, age or sexual orientation. Even if you have a disability, our doors are wide open to you. We look forward to a diverse community here at IU!

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Do you have any questions? Our recruitment team will be happy to help you out - individually and personally.
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What we’ll do for you
Design your ideal career and pathway
Explosive growth enables great opportunities. Tell us your dream career, and we will help you make it a reality.
Work from home, work from anywhere
We blur the lines between local and remote by embracing collaborative & video meeting technologies.
Flexible working times
It’s your call. We trust you will get things done.
Up level your education
You have free access to all our E-Learning platforms and we will fully finance a Technology Degree of your choice.
30 days annual vacation for everyone
We strive for greatness, but we all take time-off to recharge.
Enjoy our brand of social
We love spending time together. Whether it’s yoga, team events, brown bag lunches or partying—there is something for everyone.
World’s best colleagues
We give each other a leg-up when needed, and we collectively go beyond expectations.
Always connected
Our state-of-the-art IT infrastructure, tools, & methods empower us to collaborate and innovate from anywhere, anytime—with agility and speed.
Your personal technology
Leave it to us. We provide you with a leading-edge smartphone, Mac, tablet, ergonomic office stool, and complete Home Office equipment. You may also choose your preferred hardware and IDE.
The location
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Frankfurt am Main
The city's trademark is definitely its skyline: Because of its many skyscrapers, which are by the way among the tallest in Europe. Frankfurt is a metropolis in miniature - and that's what makes it so unique! Here you can feel the mixture of international flair and lots of variety.
About the team
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Tech & Engineering
We push the outside of the envelope, challenge what exists, and do what hasn’t been done before—building an unbreakable connection between people and education. That’s how we roll in Tech & Engineering at IU International University of Applied Sciences (IU).

Unrestricted access to learning is a life-changing concept. We build solutions for digital education that are accessible wherever we go. They’re mobile, always on, and everywhere. Advancing through AI, NLP, Big Data Analytics, IoT, Cloud platforms, and Software Development, we are leading the digital transformation of education in the era of Industry 4.0.
Our core values
#1

Make collaboration standard practice.

We aim for the best solution as a team and have fun with it - without ego or politics.
#2

Be courageous and take risks.

We make courageous decisions and take calculated risks.
#3

Embrace innovation always.

We are always looking for ways to improve our offers for our customers.
#4

Strive for the empowerment of everyone.

We support each other’s development to become the best version of ourselves.
#5

Adopt a growth mindset for scale.

We aim to improve ourselves in everything we do and work hard to do so every day.
#6

Focus on getting things done on time.

We implement things quickly, pragmatically, effectively and goal-oriented.
#7

Put customer focus first.

In everything we do, our customers come first.

Tech & Engineering FAQs

How is the IU-Tech Team structured?
Starting with three Techies, we have grown to 60+ developers in three years. We are spread across 17 teams, in three technical clusters: IU EDU TECH, IU MAR TECH and IU ORG TECH.
What are my responsibilities in the IU EDU Tech-Team?
You will be responsible for building IT solutions for our 100,000+ students—ranging from Moodle based learning management systems, to portals based on vueJS and nestJS, to native iOS apps.
What are my responsibilities in the IU MAR-Team?
You will be responsible for developing high-performance websites and landing pages using Laravel, Tailwind, and vueJS. In addition, you will get to develop AI driven customer-centric solutions.
What are my responsibilities in the IU ORG-Team?
In Dev/Ops you will be responsible for developing complex ERP Solutions based fully on TypeScript, nestJS, and vueJS, and implementation in a Kafka event-sourcing driven micro-service architecture.
Can I work remotely for the Tech-Team?
Of course! We are happy to have you on board.
What Tech-Stack is used at IU?
We love PHP and JavaScript. You will find little jQuery here, mostly typed JavaScript in the form of vueJs and nestJS in the backend. From PHP in Moodle to micro-services in OOP PHP using the Laravel framework. All projects are GIT based and use CI/CD processes. No one is pushing code through the ether via FTP on Saturday night. Laravel / vueJs / Kafka / Tailwind / MariaDB / MongoDB / AWS / Docker / Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket) / ...