Objective of the position
We are looking for a highly dynamic, motivated, and collaborative person to join our team. We are focused on the modernization of legacy systems and development of new capabilities of digital solutions in the Operations Platform team. There is a growing global need within BASF to leverage digitalization to continue BASF’s journey of excellence and continuously improving our capabilities especially through digitalization.
In this role, you will work alongside a global development team to create and iteratively improve upon a global, internal full stack development solution with a focus on an open source stack and a cloud-based platform.
Main Task
Lead solution design and architecture (APIs, service boundaries, data models), ensuring scalability, maintainability, and security.
Translate business needs into technical requirements; proactively manage trade-offs (scope, performance, cost, time) with stakeholders.
Set and uphold engineering standards: code reviews, automated testing strategy, performance benchmarking, and secure coding practices.
Leverage AI-assisted engineering responsibly (e.g., copilots/LLMs) to improve delivery and quality; evaluate and integrate AI capabilities where valuable, ensuring data privacy, security, and model governance.
Own production readiness: observability (logs/metrics/traces), on-call/incident response support, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
Mentor engineers through pairing, coaching, and design/code reviews; contribute to hiring, onboarding, and knowledge sharing.
Job Requirements
T e c hn i c a l & P r o f e ss i o n a l Knowledge (mandatory)
M onorepo setup (module federation or similar), shared libraries, versioning, and dependency management.
Cloud-native application development (containers, scalable deployments, configuration/secrets, resilience, cost awareness).
Practical AI understanding for software teams (AI-assisted development and/or building AI-enabled features), including data privacy, security, and responsible use.
Proven technical leadership: driving architecture decisions, mentoring, and collaborating effectively across product, UX, and platform teams.
T e c hn i c a l & P r o f e ss i o n a l Knowledge ( additional plus/nice to have skills)
Experience working with international, distributed teams (cross- timezone collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management).
Infrastructure-as-code and platform exposure (e.g., Terraform/Bicep, Kubernetes, API gateways, message brokers, caches).
A I-enabled application patterns (e.g., RAG, vector search, prompt evaluation, guardrails) and integrating with model endpoints.
Edu c a t i o n
Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, informatics, business informatics or in a comparable field
Work experience
More than 5 + years in a senior developer role for a large team
