Senior Software Engineer, Xentral
Product Information Management
Business management software
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Business management software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help small and medium-sized enterprises automate and simplify their day-to-day operations.
Role
Who you are
- You bring 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer, ideally working with mature systems and large codebases
- You have strong knowledge of PHP, ideally with modern frameworks like Laravel; exposure to Golang is a plus
- You are experienced in working with and refactoring legacy systems, especially within monolithic architectures
- You are skilled in decoupling monoliths and improving functionality for better performance and scalability
- You are passionate about building systems that evolve gracefully and sustainably over time
- You are a strong communicator and thrive in cross-functional collaboration
- You uphold high standards for code quality, performance, and maintainability
- You speak fluent English; German is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on our PIM team, you’ll play a critical role in scaling and improving a core part of our platform that started small and has grown significantly. You’ll tackle the challenges of evolving a mature, monolithic system—making it more modular, functional, and future-ready
- You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive improvements, decouple legacy systems, and shape the technical foundation of our PIM services
- If you’re passionate about solving complex problems and transforming monolithic codebases into modern, scalable systems, we’d love to hear from you
- You design, implement, and maintain robust backend solutions for our Product Information Management (PIM) system using PHP (Laravel), with exposure to Golang as a plus
- You lead efforts to refactor, decouple, and modernize legacy code—turning a growing project into a scalable service
- You drive architectural improvements and technical strategy to improve maintainability, functionality, and performance
- You collaborate closely with product managers and engineers across teams to deliver high-impact features and technical enhancements
- You proactively identify and implement improvements that go beyond maintaining the status quo—making systems better, faster, and more scalable
- You support scaling efforts and ensure that the growing demands on the PIM system are met with sustainable engineering practices
- You promote engineering excellence through code reviews, shared standards, and mentorship
Our take
With upwards of 2000 global companies relying on its services, Xentral is a leading lean enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for small and medium-sized businesses. Essentially, the company takes on the burden of daily repetitive tasks, freeing up time and space for its customers to grow.
Founded in Germany by a formidable husband-wife duo, Xentral has seen strong momentum as many businesses are turning to platforms like Amazon, eBay and Shopify to sell online, with Xentral’s services enabling companies to digitize and automate their back-end processes.
2021 series B funding, led by Tiger Global and Meritech, has been invested in enhancing the product. Capital has also been used to expand the U.K. operation toward a more global ERP market, a timely venture given its forecasted to be a market worth $71.3B by 2030.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$75m
SERIES B
Jan 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $95m
Company benefits
- Well equipped for the mission - To make sure you can be on our journey with full power, we will equip you with a new MacBook, related equipment and use modern tools like Slack, GitHub, HubSpot and Asana. You are missing something – we are always open for new suggestions!
- Our secret fuel - There are no passengers on spaceship xentral – we are all crew. Even though we are physically separated, we enjoy our time together in projects, on coffee dates or virtual company parties very much. Relaxed and laid-back, yet focused and highly motivated. At xentral a healthy start-up culture is alive and well
- Even astronauts don’t stop learning - We love to challenge the status quo and that goes for ourselves too. That's why we offer you the opportunity to develop yourself further, whether on professional topics or interdisciplinary ones such as feedback training, communication or work organisation. If you have a specific training in mind, let us know
- Our coding universe - While for most people the universe consists of galaxies, stars and asteroids, our universe consists of PHP, AWS, Laravel, Symfony, Kubernetes, Docker and ArgoCD – just to name a few
- Choose your station - You decide where to launch your work day. Whether you want to work from home or from one of our hubs in Augsburg, Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich. Of course we will equip your home base
Company HQ
Bahnhofs-Bismarckviertel, Augsburg, Germany
Leadership
Benedikt Sauter
(Co-CEO, CPO & Co-founder)Previously co-founded and acted as CEO for both WaWision GmbH and embedded projects GmbH.
Claudia Sauter
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded WaWision GmbH and embedded projects GmbH.
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