Principal Engineer

About the company

Salem liegt in reizvoller Lage im Salemertal, in unmittelbarer Nähe des Bodensees, und verfügt über ein großzügiges Freizeitangebot. Alle weiterführenden Schulen sind vorhanden bzw. mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln gut erreichbar. Die rund 230 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter sind täglich für die Belange von über 12.800 Einwohnern im Einsatz.

Dir liegt etwas an der Gemeinde Salem und den Menschen, die hier leben? Du suchst einen Ausbildungsplatz in einem klassischen Verwaltungsberuf? Dann bist Du bei uns genau richtig. Bei der Gemeinde Salem ist zum 01.09.2027 eine Stelle als

Your tasks

• Bearbeitung von Anträgen und Vorgängen
• Beratung von Bürgern und Unternehmen
• Aktenführung und Dokumentenmanagement
• Erstellung von Bescheiden und anderen Schriftstücken
• Anwendung von Rechtsvorschriften und Gesetzen

Requirements

Your mindset The mindset is the engine, and it is almost impossible to teach retrospectively. You are outcome obsessed, not output obsessed and you care whether the problem was actually solved - you resist the ego instinct to admire a clever solution and ask whether it was needed at all.

You are intellectually honest about uncertainty, taking a trust-but-verify approach and assuming the surprising bug is the one that will burn. You are deeply pragmatic, which matters at CreateFuture where pace counts: you have outgrown the religious wars about platforms, languages and patterns, you hold opinions loosely, and you decide for the systems in front of you, not the ones you wish you had.

You have a bias toward delivery: the smallest thing that works, then iterate, treating documents and meetings as means to that end.

And you are relentlessly curious beyond any immediate need, wanting to know how the database actually stores things or why a Claude Opus inference call costs what it does, which keeps you several layers ahead while the rest of the team is still reading the API docs.

AI as the accelerant For a Principal to be truly exceptional, this is now already a first-class competency in your arsenal, not a side skill. An engineer who is brilliant by last year's standards but not fluent with AI is not exceptional in 2026. In practice that means:

• Setting AI up to succeed. You treat context engineering as a craft (the right files, specs, examples and constraints), and you architect systems with clean interfaces, good naming, machine-readable specs and knowledge bases so the codebase is a quality baseline AI can work on later. No separate ivory-tower architect required.
• Reviewing and choosing well. You read far more code than you write, and your value is in the quality of review: catching the silent assumption, the security flaw, the architectural drift, knowing where models fail and looking there first. You pick the right tool for the job (Claude Code for a deep refactor, an inline assistant when that is enough, a sub-agent for parallel work, the right model for analysis versus generation) and you know the constraints differ by client, an enterprise like PayPoint or Natwest versus a scale-up type business like Zuto or OAG.
• Working with non-determinism. You see where AI moves the bottleneck and help people left and right of you unblock the value stream. You build with AI components but know success is no longer a binary, reaching for evals, golden datasets, structured outputs and fallback paths as naturally as you reach for unit tests.

Technical breadth across the full stack Exceptional means depth in at least one area but competence everywhere the system reaches.

• Backend: an instinct for distributed systems (what fails, what is eventually consistent, where queues back up), APIs that age well, thoughtful data modelling, and an understanding that languages are mostly syntax differences you can close with AI.
• Cloud: cost-aware and security-aware by default, reaching for IaC, composing the primitives rather than stitching together managed services and hoping it works.
• Data: modern pipelines, governance and lineage, increasingly vector stores and embeddings, with data quality treated as seriously as production code because garbage in, garbage out is far worse once AI features depend on it.
• Web and mobile: past the framework arguments, with a clear view on what you would pick today, and able to build "good enough" front ends yourself with AI.

Full-stack here means seeing the platform as one system and knowing which levers matter most. It does not mean front-end work with a few Node.js servers.

System thinking, consulting and commercial judgement At CreateFuture we work in a consultancy context, where many otherwise excellent IC engineers can struggle.

You know technology is roughly 30% of the picture; the rest is design, argument and reasoning, commercial and political acumen, and the clarity to frame outcomes for a COO, CTO, CIO or CEO in their own language.

You know when gold-plating is wasteful, you can name when a project's real problem is not technical and say so even when it is awkward, and you have a strong sense of what is durable versus what is fashion.

You are not the engineer who introduced the team to seven new technologies last year; you are the one who removed three and quietly made the remaining stack stronger.

Leadership mentality Technical work is necessary but no longer sufficient. By default you raise the level of everyone around you, regardless of discipline.

• Communicate clearly and frequently (documents, decisions, post-mortems, design notes); the written artefact is the machine-readable context we can feed to AI later.
• Make decisions and own them. You don't escalate everything or hoard control, and you are willing to be the benevolent dictator when it is your turn.
• Mentor in AI fluency, not just code: tooling, prompting and review discipline, so your team is twice as productive a year from now.
• Need little line management. You communicate upwards, raise by exception, self-resolve, and can be trusted with financial controls.
• Disagree well. You tell people they are wrong with evidence and no ego, and you change your own mind when you are shown to be wrong.

What we offer

• Eine abwechslungsreiche Tätigkeit in einem motivierten Team
• Moderner Arbeitsplatz mit eigenem Azubi-Büro
• 30 Tage Urlaub
• Gleitende Arbeitszeit von 06:30 bis 19:00 Uhr
• Top Vergütung nach TVAöD inkl. Jahressonderzahlungen
• Abschlussprämie von 400 €
• Zusätzliche Altersvorsorge über ZVK
• EGYM-Wellpass

How to apply

Wir freuen uns auf Deine Bewerbung!

Bitte reiche Deine Bewerbung mit Anschreiben, Lebenslauf und Deinen letzten Schulzeugnissen bis 31.10.2026 auf dem Bewerberportal der Gemeinde Salem ein oder richte diese an Gemeinde Salem, Am Schlosssee 1, 88682 Salem. Bitte beachte, dass Deine Bewerbungsunterlagen nicht zurückgesendet werden. Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung vorrangig berücksichtigt.

Für Auskünfte steht Dir die Ausbildungsbeauftragte der Gemeinde Salem, Frau Madlene Schmid (Tel. 07553 823-91) gerne zur Verfügung.

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