[Remote] Software Engineer (m/f/d) – Backend & Platform | AI-First Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. zvoove Software Germany GmbH is hiring a Software Engineer to modernize its business-critical Payroll platform and build scalable backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities. The role involves incremental product modernization, close collaboration with engineers and Payroll domain experts, and applying AI-assisted tools throughout the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and build modern backend services and platform capabilities around an established Payroll product
• Build APIs and integration points that allow Payroll capabilities to be used by modern applications and workflows
• Modernize the product incrementally rather than through a big-bang rewrite
• Work closely with existing engineers and Payroll domain experts to understand and safely evolve proven business logic
• Establish strong engineering practices around automated testing, observability, code quality and maintainability
• Use AI throughout the software development lifecycle to:

+ understand unfamiliar and complex codebases + analyse dependencies and behaviour + explore solution options + accelerate implementation + generate and improve tests + review code and documentation

• Help define how AI-first software engineering should work in practice across the team
• Collaborate with external Web/UI engineers while ensuring that core product architecture and engineering quality remain owned internally
• Contribute to technical architecture and modernization decisions

Skills

• Several years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend development skills in a modern programming language and ecosystem
• Experience designing APIs, services and integration-oriented systems, with a solid understanding of software architecture, clean boundaries and maintainable system design
• Comfortable working with existing or complex systems – not only greenfield products – and taking ownership from technical problem through implementation and production
• Strong automated-testing mindset and excellent communication skills, with a willingness to work closely with product and domain experts
• Practical experience using modern AI coding tools or engineering agents as part of day-to-day development, combined with the ability to judge AI-generated output critically
• Experience in one or more of the following is a plus: modernization of large or long-lived software products, strangler/incremental migration approaches, cloud and container-based environments, asynchronous processing, high-compliance or business-critical software (e.g. Payroll, HR or financial), legacy integration, or developer platforms and internal tooling
• Experience with C#/.NET, especially for backend services, APIs or modernization of established applications

Benefits

• Collaboration within an empathetic and supportive team
• The opportunity to use your knowledge and personal strengths and continue to develop your skills and grow
• Structured onboarding, on-the-job learning, training sessions and informal learning formats
• Working in interdisciplinary and international teams
• Hybrid work concept, including working in the office, from home, on the move and on workations
• A modern tech stack and agile working methods
• Pension scheme
• Health management
• Staff discounts
• Well-behaved dogs are welcome at all locations

Company Overview

• Planbition is dé gebruikersvriendelijke en betaalbare webbased oplossing voor uw personeelsplanning, welke volledig ontwikkeld is vanuit het gezichtspunt van de gebruiker. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Helmond, Noord-Brabant, NLD, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is https://www.planbition.com/.