What makes us special:
- Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with an entrepreneurial and startup spirit
- Add to your experience with our projects that focus on growth, have a positive impact, and truly matter
- Voice your unique ideas in a corporate culture defined by openness and integrity
- Enjoy the opportunity to work from abroad (workation)
- Feel at home working with our helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit
- Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning)
- Speak your mind in our holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 360-degree feedback)
- Satisfy your need for adventure with our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our many international offices
- Enjoy our benefits, such as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace).
- Unwind in our break areas where you can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided
- See another side of your coworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party
How you will create an impact:
Leadership & Strategy
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for the dynamic pricing platform.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team of software engineers and data engineers.
- Champion engineering best practices, agile development, and DevOps culture.
Architecture & Development
- Architect a cloud-native, data-heavy pricing system on AWS with high reliability and scalability.
- Oversee core modules for pricing algorithms, real-time data processing, and analytics integration.
- Ensure seamless integration of data pipelines, APIs, and third-party systems.
- Write clean, high-performance code in Java and Python while setting coding standards for the team.
Data & Performance
- Design systems capable of ingesting, transforming, and analyzing large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
- Optimize computation-heavy models and queries for low-latency, high-throughput pricing operations.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and cost optimization strategies in AWS.
Collaboration & Delivery
- Work closely with product managers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to align technology with business outcomes.
- Translate complex pricing or sales requirements into scalable, production-ready software.
- Ensure timely delivery of features with a balance of speed, quality, and technical debt management.
About you:
Technical Expertise
- You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related field.
- Strong programming background in Java and Python.
- Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale, data-intensive systems.
- Deep knowledge of AWS cloud services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, EMR, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Glue, Redshift).
- Proficiency in building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Understanding of data modeling, ETL pipelines, and high-performance computing
Leadership & Delivery
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire engineering teams, drive architectural decisions, and deliver complex software projects.
- Experience working with agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines.
Preferred
- Exposure to machine learning / optimization algorithms applied to pricing or similar domains.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience in fintech, e-commerce, travel, or retail pricing systems.
Have we sparked your interest? Simply click the 'Apply now' button to submit your application. Please note that, for data protection reasons, we cannot accept applications via email.
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Über Simon-Kucher
Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30+ countries.
Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 40 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist. simon-kucher.com
We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of course, our business.
Your personal contact:
Maria Weininger
recruitment.germany(at)simon-kucher.com
Please submit your application exclusively via the “Apply now” button!
Better growth starts here. With you.
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