Full Stack Engineer

Metro Global Solution Center (MGSC) is internal solution partner for METRO, a €31 Billion international wholesaler with operations in more than 30 countries. The store network comprises a total of 623 stores in 21 countries, of which 522 offer out-of-store delivery (OOS), and 94 dedicated depots. In 12 countries, METRO runs only the delivery business by its delivery companies (Food Service Distribution, FSD). 

HoReCa and Traders are core customer groups of METRO. The HoReCa section includes hotels, restaurants, catering companies as well as bars, cafés and canteen operators. The Traders section includes small grocery stores and kiosks. The majority of all customer groups are small and medium-sized enterprises as well as sole traders. METRO helps them manage their business challenges more effectively. 

MGSC, location wise is present in Pune (India), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Szczecin (Poland). We provide HR, Finance, IT & Business operations support to 31 countries, speak 24+ languages and process over 18,000 transactions a day. We are setting tomorrow’s standards for customer focus, digital solutions, and sustainable business models. For over 10 years, we have been providing services and solutions from our two locations in Pune and Szczecin. This has allowed us to gain extensive experience in how we can best serve our internal customers with high quality and passion. We believe that we can add value, drive efficiency, and satisfy our customers.

Website: https://www.metro-gsc.in

Company Size: 800-850

Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Type: Privately Held

Inception:  2011

How you will make an impact?

From point-of-sale systems and delivery software to ecommerce platforms and mobile assistants. As engineering hub we do offer a wide range of solutions to digitize our wholesale business! It’s also here where we share know-how, ideas and our passion for technology. We try to understand the user by getting ourselves involved in product discoveries. Meeting METRO customers and employees helps us see their challenges and code with them in mind.

Curious to get more information about the team, the product, or the tech stack? https://metro.digital/hubs/engineering-hub/

Your Responsibilities:

• Collaborating in a cross functional product team and with other teams on solving customer problems by delivering product functionalities and support;
• Being involved in all phases of software engineering, from inception to coding, testing, delivery and operation;
• Developing high quality code that follows best practices and clean code principles;
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security and performance;
• Collaborating with other engineers or team members on various layers of the infrastructure, in order to design and launch new features;
• Interacting with the client in order to understand and characterize their needs and advise them if necessary.

Required key competencies and qualifications:

• You have profound knowledge in programming language such as Kotlin/Java (2+ years of experience), JavaScript/Typescript as well as enthusiasm for automating and automatically scaling tests and deployments (with Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience in GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
• You have fun solving complex business and technical problems and you want to work in a team that shares this ambition with you
• You want to develop yourself constantly and you love to make our digital world a little bit better every day
• You are interested in splitting large projects into small, manageable subprojects with microservices
• You are already developing software "full stack" meaning from the front end over the back end to the persistence layer or you want to learn how to do it
• You find it exciting to get to know and use new technologies and trends
• You are able to communicate fluently in English (written and verbal).

What we offer at METRO.digital?

• Flexible and hybrid work: create your own schedule! Flexibility defines the way we work and interact with each other. At METRO.digital, you have the possibility to work remotely and adapt your working hours in a very flexible way.
• People development: when you grow so do we! We want you to become the best version of yourself with individual and company-wide programs and trainings for people development. Focused among other on development, leadership, appreciation ... it´s time to upskill your career.
• Support with individual solutions: we are people-caring! Life is full of surprises, full of challenges and we want to support you – whenever YOU need - at an individual level and during every stage of your life.

Want to know more about all our benefits? Discover more here.