Professional Fullstack Developer E-Mobility

We are the KOSTAL Group, a global, independent family-owned company based in Germany. We develop and manufacture technologically complex electronic and mechatronic products. We employ more than 20.000 people at 53 locations in 21 countries, offering flexible, knowledgeable and customer-focused service. 

In Hungary, KOSTAL is building a flagship global business service center to deliver exceptional support across key functions such as IT, finance, controlling, master data, purchasing, sales, sustainability, R&D and HR. This center is focusing on high-value, complex processes and your individual expertise can make a significant impact in shaping KOSTAL’s future and driving global excellence.

The work can be managed remotely – with time-to-time office presence depending on the team’s agreement and the demand of the respective professional area – from any location in Hungary. In case of some company events, office attendance is expected from the colleagues. Technical conditions for working from home are fully in place.

Overall Purpose of Job:

vaylens' business customer portals and apps, such as the vaylens Portal, intent to make the management and commercial operation of charging infrastructure as easy, reliable and efficient as possible. As the e-mobility marked is growing exponentially new digital products and features as well as UX and performance optimizations need to be developed.

Main tasks, roles and responsibilities:

• As Fullstack Developer you will develop and improve our e-mobility applications for business customers e.g. the vaylens portal and backend microservice applications. vaylens’ charging infrastructure system landscape is a distributed and highly scalable cloud platform which consist of a variety of microservices and frontends. Via this platform business customers manage their public charging infrastructure and provide easy access to EV drivers.
• You will holistically accompany and influence the software lifecycle from requirements to solution design, development and testing to the productive product in the agile development team with a DevOps approach.
• Through active code reviews, pair programming, the exchange of best practices in the Architecture Weekly, a high degree of test automation and active processing of customer feedback, you ensure a high level of quality of your software.
• With your experience you will act as a technical sparring partner for your product owner in the development of the requirements from the booming electric mobility market, among other things via refinements of use cases and user stories.
• You will work with international colleagues in the scaled agile software development program using SAFe methodology and Scrum. 

Experiences and requirements:

Education:

• University degree in Computer Science/Business Informatics or similar education

Work experiences – time/seniority/sector:

• 4+ years of professional experience as Fullstack Developer in Java Enterprise/Spring environment
• 3+ years of professional experience in frontend development with Angular 6+ and TypeScript, ideally incl. state management with Redux

Technical/ IT knowledge:

• Java, Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud Contracts
• Angular 6+ and TypeScript, ideally with Redux
• REST and JMS (RabbitMQ or HiveMQ)
• Maven, Webpack, RxJS, GitLab CI, Jira, Confluence as well as ideally MariaDB (MySQL), DocumentDB and Redis
• Experience with microservices and cloud architectures

Software quality assurance incl. test automation with JUnit, Spring Boot Test, Jest and Cypress​

Language 

• Fluent English

Mobility requirements

• As per need – usually 2-4 weeks per year to Germany or similar

Required Skills and Competencies:

• You love solving complex problems and making applications intuitive to use
• Agile methodologies like Scrum/Kanban and ideally SAFe organized you past projects and you internalized their advantages
• You have strong communication skills and willingness to take the ownership on your applications together with your team
• Ideally, you already have experience in the EV charging business

What do we offer :

• Flexible working conditions with remote work possibility (in-person presence is required from time to time), you can have a real work-life balance
• Modern, newly renovated, sustainable office with parking space and bicycle storage area in the heart of Budapest
• Supportive, diverse and highly skilled community
• Ability to really make a difference and build new processes from scratch, you can participate in the formation and shape of the BSC processes
• KOSTAL is a dynamically developing company, an independent, family-run business which provides much flexibility
• You can enjoy our value-oriented work culture: we are down-to-earth, appreciative, inspiring and innovative

Join KBS where new opportunities meet the stability of 113 years of legacy at a stable, future-focused company!