Agentic Software Engineer (m/w/d) at Lovely Systems · Remote (Germany)
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AWS
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Docker
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Kafka
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Kotlin
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Languages: English
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You bring solid software engineering experience.
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You understand the inner workings of what is produced.
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You love TDD.
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You feel responsible for what you build, in production too.
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You are fluent in English, our team language.
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You are open source affine.
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It's ok for you if you can't use Windows.
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These technologies appeal to you
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: Kubernetes is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: AWS is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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