Engineering

Discovery

We try to understand the user by getting ourselves involved in product discoveries. Meeting METRO customers and employees helps us see their challenges and code with them in mind.

Clean Code

We like to write concise code that is easy to modify. For that reason we follow agile software processes and the software craftsmanship manifesto.

Engineering Metrics

Improving our development processes is an ongoing practice: we constantly observe, measure and analyse our data.

Reliability Engineering

Having a vast range of products can make things complex, so we aim to build straight forward and reliable systems. We also set up service-level-objectives to monitor performance.

Platform Engineering

We practice continuous delivery, which means every commit is deployable to production, while testing is automated. We setup alerts that are automatically triggered based on the error budget monitoring.

Exchange and Exploration

We like to share and exchange our knowledge and skills. Also we like to explore new paths by experimenting with Augmented Reality, Machine Learning and AI.

Our tool kit

We generally have every software we need, and if we don’t, we make sure we get it.

Java

Kotlin

Android

Scala

React

.Net Core

Kubernetes

Python

Apache Cassandra

PostgreSQL

Apache Solr

Apache Kafka

Jenkins

Google Cloud Platform

Apache Spark

Puppet

Docker

BigQuery

Dataflow

Composer

Products we develop

Check out our work

From point-of-sale systems and delivery software to ecommerce platforms and mobile assistants. We do offer a wide range of solutions!

E-commerce Platform

It translates shopping at METRO into the online world. And it’s open 24/7.

KotlinClojurePythonTensorFlow

Mobile Commerce

METRO’s ecommerce experience put in an app. We also added some additional benefits to make shopping on and offline easier.

KotlinReactJSSwiftKubernetes

CRM Software

A software helping METRO’s sales team manage their prospects, customer portfolios and daily schedules.

KotlinJavaSpringBootKafka

Digital Invoicing Software

A software built to keep customer invoices safe and easily accessible from any device.

GoLangCassandraAngularSolr

Credit Management Software

Complicated credit management made easy. It allows our customers to shop even when they don’t have sufficient funds.

JavaPostgresqlNode-REDKafka

Order Fulfillment Suite

A software improving the accuracy and speed of order processing while eliminating sources of error.

KotlinKubernetesSpringBootBigQuery

Transport Management Software

A software leveraging data and automation to achieve higher precision and efficiency in order delivery.

JavaSpringBootScalaJenkins

In-store Checkout Solutions

Developing solutions that offer METRO’s customers a seamless checkout experience in our stores.

NetCoreVisualStudioNodeJSJenkins

I am very proud to be able to work on a solution which helps thousands of customers throughout the world. I can feel the impact our product has on the customers when I see small shops buying their whole inventory through our online-shop.

MEHRDAD DASTGIR

Software Engineer, Berlin, Germany

The team has a good spirit and willingness to always help each other. We can grow professionally and personally by sharing the knowledge between us and discovering and learning new things together. We do our best to help our users, by having direct discussions with them, so we can better understand the business need and find the best solutions together.

KINGA HUNYADI

Software Engineer, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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