Interview: Rafael Carmo

Krieger Digital is very proud of its multinationality and diversity. These qualities allow us to draw from a cross-border pool of knowledge and keep our projects, our company and our individual personalities growing.

But sure, that’s easy to say. So we’ll leave it to our Lead Developer Rafael to tell us first-hand what working with Krieger Digital is all about and what opportunities we offer for personal and professional development.

What did we have to offer Rafael?

“I already had the impression during the interview that very friendly people work here who would help and support each other. In addition, Krieger is an established and stable company. A company rich in tradition, but where there are always new beginnings and approaches, so you can grow together with the company, which has successfully evolved from a furniture retailer into a technology company.” – Rafael Carmo

When Rafael started his job with us in July 2019, he was the first Java Backend Developer in the e-commerce team. A big challenge for him, as he says, but his impression from the job interview was confirmed: “Everyone was very helpful. There’s a culture of helpfulness and support at Krieger.”

“In the beginning, employees were sceptical about whether I could fully understand the platform as an outsider. But I managed to do that in a very short time, and now the others reach out to me when there are questions about functionality or new features are to be integrated,” Rafael says. The fact that he has achieved this in such a short time fills him with pride.

He is the best example of how personal goals can be achieved in a very short time at Krieger Digital with initiative and commitment. In just one and a half years, Rafael has risen from Java developer to team leader of the backend team in e-commerce – a position in which he sees himself primarily as a helper and supporter of his team, not as a superior. At the same time, he actively supports our HR department in constantly improving the working environment in the interests of the employees. And he’s a point of contact and a source of ideas for other teams, as well as an advocate for the introduction of modern working methods. Oh, and yes, he still fills his role as a developer as well….

This passion and enthusiasm is what drives him in everything he does. In personal goals – “I want to help create a company that every employee says, ‘This is one of the best companies I’ve ever worked for'” – as well as professional goals: “I want to improve the store platform so that it can sell a million products a day in the future. In my head, I already know exactly what needs to be done. I think in the course of 2021, we can have achieved that.”

Rafael is looking for new team members for his backend development team, not least to achieve this ambitious goal.

And what does Rafael look for in his future team members?

“I believe Krieger represents an exciting employer for anyone interested in the digital field. We find the right position here for the shy as well as for the more communicative. What’s important is that applicants are themselves and don’t try to be someone else. And that goes for personality as well as their expertise. They shouldn’t try to score points with things they don’t know anything about. Rather, they should show us what experience they have and what technologies they know, and if they don’t know or can’t do something, stand by it.”