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We're building the  next-generation backend that powers Germany's largest reusable-packaging network - a circular-economy deposit-return system live across 17,000+ locations.  It's a two-track hybrid modernisation (brown and greenfield), cloud-native, event-driven TypeScript platform that runs real-world operational logistics: partners, point-of-sale, returns, billing, and fulfillment at national scale, expanding internationally.  You'll join as a (senior) engineer (all genders) with real ownership: designing, building and own core services and working directly with our technical lead and peers on architecture.  This is not a ticket-taking role - you'll shape the system, not just implement against it.    What you'll do:  Design,  build  and own  core  platform  services :  partner  management ,  point-of-sale ,  billing  and  invoicing ,  returns ,  fulfillment , and  contract  management Build  event- driven ,  async -heavy  integrations  between  services  and external  systems  - outbox  patterns ,  queues ,  retries ,  dead -letter  handling Help  drive  our  international  expansion Partner  with  the  technical  lead  on  architectural  decisions ,  data  modelling , and  the  incremental  extraction  of  capabilities  from  our  existing  platform  into  the  new  one Set  the  engineering  bar- testing ,  observability , and operational  readiness  baked  in  from  day  one   Our stack: Language:  PHP (7.1) (c urrent ), TypeScript  (Next direction ) Framework:  Shopware 5.3 and  NestJS Data:  Mariadb , PostgreSQL + Prisma Cloud:  Google Cloud Platform  - Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks AI:  Claude (Code, Chat and  Cowork ) APIs:  REST Platform :  GCP Existing  platform  ( you'll  learn  its  domain ):  PHP / Shopware  the  current  production  system  we're  incrementally  extracting  from . 7–10 years of backend engineering, with deep production experience in Node.js, TypeScript and substantial hands-on NestJS in production plus ability to work with legacy PP2 (PHP) code Strong system design and execution - you've designed distributed, async/queue-heavy systems and shipped them, not just white-boarded them Solid relational data modelling and SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL ideally) Comfortable owning a problem end-to-end: design, build, test, ship, operate As English is our work language, English language proficiency at minimum C1 level is necessary EU work permission Munich-based. This is a hybrid role: 2 days/week in our Munich office, rest remote Working with AI coding agents (a real part of this role)  We use AI coding agents (Claude Code) every day as a core part of how we build. We expect you to as well. Concretely, we're looking for someone who:  has shipped production code with an AI coding agent, can describe their workflow - how they spec, prompt, review, and integrate agent output, has informed opinions on where agents fail and how they guard against it (review discipline, tests, architectural guardrails) This isn't a buzzword for us - it's how the team works, and our hiring process reflects it (below).    Nice to have  Event- driven / CQRS / outbox experience Google Cloud Platform Migration or legacy- extraction experience ( incrementally replacing an older system ) Comfortable reading unfamiliar or legacy codebases How we hire  First Interview with People & Organisation (~25 minutes) - We want to get to know you better in a first meeting and you will get to know RECUP's culture, values and vision and understand yourself better for a mutual fit Meet Hiring Manager (Tech Leader) (~25 minutes) - Understand the RECUP platform from a technical persp