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What we're about

As the dev arm of Lufthansa Technik, Vaerolabs flies high on the wings of the world's leading-edge aviation maintenance services provider. We're a savvy, agile company creating the digital DNA of the future - and we're as ambitious as you are. If you value attitude over strict processes, learning over hard tech skills, and ownership over pure experience, you belong here. If this is your gig, call us today!

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The engine that powers our passion

At Vaerolabs, we build digital products for all the many divisions of Lufthansa Technik. We create the link that connects airlines with critical aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul, and modification services. Our software keeps the world flying.

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The wings that set our direction

We modernise the processes that help Lufthansa Technik execute its services flawlessly, building customer engagement and loyalty at each step. As the catalyst that eases the Lufthansa Technik family into a fully digital future, we make the air a safer place with every piece of software we build.

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The stabilizers that guide our journey

Vaerolabs helps Lufthansa Technik digitalise its processes, keeping it the premium provider of services in the aviation space.

How we do tech

At Vaerolabs, we develop dependable solutions using Agile and established software engineering practices.

How we work

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Autonomous product team

We work in autonomous, cross-functional product teams in an agile environment to provide our customers with maximum value at high velocity.

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DevOps

We build and operate our digital solutions in a fast-paced environment, leveraging automation and the latest trends in DevOps to maximise effectiveness.

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Value Streams

We capitalise on our expertise in value streams to augment our technological expertise and blend technology and aviation into a seamless operation.

Technologies

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Software engineering

  • Java EE
  • Spring
  • Angular

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DevOps

  • Azure
  • OpenShift
  • Ansible

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Data Services

  • Azure SQL
  • Cosmos DB
  • Event Hub

Architecture

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Microservice Architecture

  • Spring-connected microservices architecture
  • Contract-based design with REST APIs and OpenAPI definitions
  • Communication through Azure Event Hubs

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Azure Cloud

  • Serverless, managed in OpenShift
  • Controlled with ManageIQ
  • Observed in Grafana and Elastic

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CI/CD

  • Orchestrated through Jenkins
  • Defined in Helm
  • Automated through Ansible and AWX

Where are we

With locations in both Hamburg and Sofia, Vaerolabs forms a bridge between Germany and Bulgaria. Here, you'll enjoy working with talented multicultural teams and keep the world flying from one of Europe's most historic cities.

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Who we are

The people behind Vaerolabs combine their passion for excellence with their unique personalities.

How to join us

Grow your career with us, and you'll have an experience other developers only dream of. Take the fast track to success with Vaerolabs. Here's how our hiring process works:

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Resume Submission You take the first step
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Application Review It's our turn now
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First Conversation Let's have a talk
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The Interview Getting into the details
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Receive an Offer Enjoy the opportunity
Even though you do need top-quality tech skills to join the Vaerolabs team, we hire people.
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Preparation

  • Be yourself.
  • Show us how you think.
  • Show us your passion.
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Assessment

  • We value attitude over strict processes.
  • We value learning over pure tech skills.
  • We value ownership over pure experience.
So, if you have software development experience, organisational skills, and passion, let's talk.

We are looking for a talented and driven Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team in Sofia. As a Software Engineer, you need to be closely familiar with enterprise web applications and will be expected to leverage that knowledge to develop sustainable solutions, develop your expertise, and grow together as a team.

Some of your key responsibilities:

  • Deliver solid, reliable and secure enterprise applications
  • Participate in technical discussions on application design and architecture
  • Contribute to the improvements in our toolset, standards, and software solutions
  • Apply industry best practices and software engineering standards to achieve highest quality

We're looking for a person with:

  • Experience with building scalable, secure and performant applications
  • Frameworks proficiency and working experience with Spring, Spring Boot or Angular
  • Experience with CSS libraries such as Bootstrap, Angular-Material, Foundation, etc.
  • Experience with building and consuming RESTful APIs. Experience in designing, documenting, and maintaining APIs using tools like Swagger and Postman
  • Good grasp of and working experience with relational and/or non-relational databases. Familiarity with concepts like normalization, indexing, and transactions
  • Be a team player to contribute to your team's success. “Ego” is a hated word

What We Offer:

  • Clear career path
  • Established development processes
  • Work with latest technologies
  • 3 days home office per month
  • 25 days of paid leave
  • Flexible benefit system
  • Free parking

Don't wait and join us now!

We are looking for a talented and driven Quality Assurance Engineer to join our fast-growing team in Sofia. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you need to be closely familiar with enterprise web applications and automation. It will be expected to leverage that knowledge to develop sustainable solutions, develop your expertise, and grow together as a team.

Some of your key responsibilities:

  • Take ownership of software testing and test execution controlling
  • Drive the end-to-end testing initiatives throughout the entire SDLC from test planning, test design, test execution, test reporting, and performing UAT sessions
  • Carry out automated tests and work towards maximizing test coverage

We're looking for a person with:

  • Expertise in software engineering with ability to design, develop, and execute complex end-to-end quality assurance strategies
  • Experienced in writing test cases, reviewing requirements, identifying and logging bugs
  • Deep knowledge and at least 2 years experience in UI and API automation testing with Java or Javascript/Typescript
  • Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, TestNG, Maven, RestAssured, Postman, Swagger
  • Be a team player to contribute to your team's success. "Ego" is a hated word

What We Offer:

  • Clear career path
  • Established development processes
  • Work with latest technologies
  • 3 days home office per month
  • 25 days of paid leave
  • Flexible benefit system
  • Free parking

Don't wait and join us now!

We are looking for a talented and driven Lead Full Stack Engineer to join our fast-growing team in Sofia. As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you need to be closely familiar with enterprise web applications and will be expected to leverage that knowledge to develop sustainable solutions, develop your expertise, and grow together as a team.

Some of your key responsibilities:

  • Deliver solid, reliable and secure enterprise applications
  • Lead a small team of software engineers
  • Drive technical discussions on application design and architecture
  • Contribute to the improvements in our toolset, standards, and software solutions
  • Apply industry best practices and software engineering standards to achieve highest quality

We're looking for a person with:

  • Experience in mentoring people
  • Experience with building scalable, secure and performant applications
  • Frameworks proficiency and working experience with Spring or Spring Boot and Angular
  • Experience with CSS libraries such as Bootstrap, Angular-Material, Foundation, etc.
  • 5+ years of experience with building and consuming RESTful APIs. Experience in designing, documenting, and maintaining APIs using tools like Swagger and Postman
  • Good grasp of and working experience with relational and/or non-relational databases. Familiarity with concepts like normalization, indexing, and transactions
  • Be a team player to contribute to your team's success. “Ego” is a hated word

What We Offer:

  • Clear career path
  • Established development processes
  • Work with latest technologies
  • 3 days home office per month
  • 25 days of paid leave
  • Flexible benefit system
  • Free parking

Don't wait and join us now!

We are looking for a talented and driven Technical Lead to join our fast-growing team in Sofia. As the Technical Lead, you will be actively involved throughout the entire product lifecycle - from early analysis and concept creation to refining architecture and guiding teams toward solutions that are robust, scalable, and aligned with user needs.

This is a strategic role that requires both deep technical expertise and strong interpersonal skills to ensure product delivery aligns with LHT's standards, practices, and long-term vision. It involves regular travel to Germany (4-8 times per year) to collaborate directly with LHT stakeholders and strengthen partnerships.

Some of your key responsibilities:

  • Act as the primary technical interface between the product team and the LHT technology ecosystem, guiding team members on the standard technology stack, tooling, best practices, and infrastructure
  • Participate in the earliest phases of product initiation - from analysis and concept creation to architectural drafting and the launch of development
  • Oversee the technical aspects of project delivery, ensuring that development work aligns with architectural and quality standards and business requirements
  • Work closely with LHT Architects and peer Tech Leads to ensure alignment, foster trust, brainstorm and validate technical options
  • Champion continuous improvement in technical processes, coding practices, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Liaise with LHT IT administration teams to manage accounts, access, licenses, and system integrations
  • Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

We're looking for a person with:

  • Proven experience in a senior leadership role, ideally in a customer-facing capacity
  • Strong understanding of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • In-depth knowledge of software architecture principles and design patterns
  • Solid experience in database design, optimization, and management (both relational and non-relational)
  • Familiarity with modern deployment practices (e.g., blue-green deployments, canary releases, rolling updates)
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Willingness and ability to travel to Germany 4-8 times per year

What We Offer:

  • Clear career path
  • Established development processes
  • Work with latest technologies
  • 3 days home office per month
  • 25 days of paid leave
  • Flexible benefit system
  • Free parking

Don't wait and join us now!

We are looking for a talented and driven DevOps Engineer to join our fast-growing team in Sofia. As a DevOps Engineer, you need to be familiar with infrastructure automation and will be expected to leverage that knowledge to develop sustainable solutions and grow together as a team.

Some of your key responsibilities:

  • Develop, automate, and operate cloud-based application infrastructure using Ansible
  • Leverage Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms for container orchestration
  • Implementing Observability and Monitoring solutions to proactively monitor system health and performance
  • Implement solutions for CI/CD, both self-operated and as-a-service
  • Provide support to software engineers in utilizing our centrally provided services

We're looking for a person with:

  • Knowledge of cloud platform administration, including network and PaaS services
  • Understanding of containerizing workloads
  • Familiarity with CI/CD principles, automation, and infrastructure as code
  • Knowledge of automation with at least one Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool (e.g., ARM, Terraform, Ansible)
  • Be a team player to contribute to your team's success. “Ego” is a hated word

What We Offer:

  • Clear career path
  • Established development processes
  • Work with latest technologies
  • 3 days home office per month
  • 25 days of paid leave
  • Flexible benefit system
  • Free parking

Don't wait and join us now!

We are seeking a highly skilled UX Specialist to join our team, collaborating closely with our colleagues at Lufthansa Technik, to drive the digitalization and modernization of our business systems. This role demands a deep understanding of user experience design and exceptional research skills to deliver intuitive and user-friendly interfaces.

Some of your key responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define and understand the detailed user and business requirements
  • Conduct comprehensive research and user testing to gather insights into user behaviors and needs, ensuring the solutions enhance user satisfaction
  • Develop clear and effective UI/UX strategies based on research data. Implement these strategies in designing cohesive and innovative user interfaces

We're looking for a person with:

  • Minimum of 3 years in UX design
  • Strong proficiency in UX design tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, or similar
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proven track record of implementing successful UX solutions
  • Strong understanding of usability and user psychology
  • Be a team player to contribute to your team's success. “Ego” is a hated word

What We Offer:

  • Clear career path
  • Established development processes
  • Work with latest technologies
  • 3 days home office per month
  • 25 days of paid leave
  • Flexible benefit system
  • Free parking

Don't wait and join us now!

We are looking for a talented and driven Business Analyst to join our fast-growing team in Sofia. As a Business Analyst, you need to be closely familiar with Requirement Analysis and SDLC and will be expected to leverage that knowledge to develop sustainable solutions, develop your expertise, and grow together as a team.

Some of your key responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with business stakeholders and the team members
  • Analyze business requirements and distill functional and nonfunctional specifications and user stories
  • Be proactive in clarifying functional and nonfunctional requirements with business stakeholders and the team members
  • Define priorities for the implementation and take ownership of the scope of the development projects
  • Drive improvements in our toolset, standards, and software solutions
  • Oversee roadmaps and risk registers, and manage stakeholders' expectations
  • Drive the management of roadmaps, risk registers, and stakeholders' expectations

We're looking for a person with:

  • Three or more years of experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner
  • Expertise in SDLC with a desire to learn even more. Ability to drive requirements and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver complex solutions
  • Experience with Agile software delivery models, like Scrum and Kanban
  • Proficiency in distilling requirements and writing user stories
  • Expertise in defining UAT requirements and driving deliverables acceptance
  • Obsession with building outstanding solutions and solving complex business cases with new technologies
  • Effective cross-functional collaboration and ability to work with developers, DevOps engineers, QA engineers, product owners, and other stakeholders is a must
  • Ambition and eagerness to learn and reach new levels of technical and personal mastery. Ability to grasp new concepts effectively, push yourself out of your comfort zone, and tackle unexpected challenges
  • Intolerance of mediocrity, enthusiasm, and drive to achieve the best possible outcome
  • Self-discipline and precision in organizing and focusing your attention effectively. You can be entrusted with responsibilities, manage, and keep deadlines
  • Be a team player to contribute to your team's success. "Ego" is a hated word
  • Excellent command of spoken and written English

What We Offer:

  • Clear career path
  • Established development processes
  • Work with latest technologies
  • 3 days home office per month
  • 25 days of paid leave
  • Flexible benefit system
  • Free parking

Don't wait and join us now!

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