Full-Time
Senior Software Architect
Posted on 4/2/2026
DATEV eG
1,001-5,000 employees
Tax and accounting software provider
No salary listed
Nuremberg, Germany
Remote
Remote work is available within Germany; the posting describes this as mobile, location-independent work.
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- Extensive experience designing cloud and platform architectures, particularly with public-cloud offerings such as Azure and AWS.
- Experience with agentic frameworks and artificial-intelligence-based automation, including knowledge of AI governance and policy as code.
- Experience designing and establishing continuous-integration, continuous-delivery, and DevOps architectures, particularly with GitHub Actions.
- A solid foundation in artificial-intelligence and machine-learning concepts and familiarity with the agentic software development lifecycle.
- Extensive experience designing and implementing modern interface architectures, including REST API design, implementation, API management, gateways, and API publishing.
- Design, implement, and validate integration patterns, automation solutions, and technical reference architectures for the scalable use of artificial intelligence in DevOps.
- Evaluate artificial-intelligence tools, frameworks, and market standards; derive architecture and technology decisions; and collaborate closely with DevOps teams and governance units.
- Ensure technical quality, security, traceability, maintainability, and smooth integration into existing processes and systems.
- Drive the scaling, rollout, and enablement of teams; develop best practices and patterns; and actively shape the continuous evolution of the DevOps Mainline.
- Assume overall technical responsibility for artificial-intelligence-enabled DevOps use cases and direct their architecture, implementation, and sustainable integration into existing platform and toolchain landscapes.
DATEV eG provides information services and software for auditors, tax consultants, and their offices. It offers a modular mix of software, services, and knowledge designed to fit different office sizes and specializations, with a centralized DATEV computer center that acts as a data turntable to share tasks and data among members and their clients. The company’s software helps handle daily work, reduces routine tasks, and keeps figures up to date, enabling collaboration between auditors and tax consultants and their offices. Unlike many competitors, DATEV combines a large cooperative structure with tailored, modular solutions, extensive international presence, and a focus on coordinating workflows and data exchange to create synergy in accounting processes. Its goal is to support its members at home and abroad by expanding across Europe and providing integrated software, services, and knowledge that streamline tasks for accountants and their clients.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Koblenz, Germany
Founded
1966
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Revenue hit 1.65 billion euros in 2025, up 9 percent year over year.
- Cloud offerings drove growth; 100,000+ bookkeepers use Automatisierungsservice Bank by June 2026.
- The September 2026 shift to Kanzleimanagement deepens lock-in and accelerates recurring cloud revenue.
What critics are saying
- The January 2026 LODAS data incident exposed payroll data and damaged trust.
- Sebastian Koch's June 2026 removal signaled board instability during cloud transition.
- Austria products end by 2029, shrinking international revenue and forcing customer migrations.
What makes DATEV eG unique
- DATEV reached 1.01 million customers in July 2026, dominating German tax software.
- Its cooperative model aligned 40,296 members with long-term product adoption and retention.
- DATEV Copilot and cloud migration centralize workflows across Kanzleimanagement, Lohn, and Rechnungswesen.
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Banks: Pennylane raises 175 million euros. Paris-based fintech offers a platform for accounting and financial management. The company also wants to invest its raised capital in the German market. Germany CEO Janiesch: Valuation is said to have doubled. Photo: Pennylane Frankfurt. Fresh capital for Pennylane: As the Paris-based fintech announced on Tuesday morning, it secured 175 million euros in a funding round. From the company's environment, it is understood that the valuation is said to have roughly doubled. In the last funding round in the spring of last year, Pennylane was valued at 2.2 billion dollars (approximately 1.9 billion euros). The round is led by investment firm TCV. Blackstone Growth, an investment division of asset manager Blackstone, is also involved, as are existing investors. 'Especially for the German accounting and financial market, this funding round is an important milestone for Pennylane,' said Tobias Janiesch, who is responsible for Pennylane's German business. The capital enables significant investments in the German market. In the long term, it also provides financial resources to be able to react early to a possible consolidation of the European market, according to the company. Pennylane currently employs 1000 people and is an AI-supported platform for accounting and financial management. Founded in 2020 in Paris, the company advertises that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and tax consultants can collaborate on their platform, for example on topics such as accounting, invoicing, payment transactions or reporting. Through this and by automating a variety of manual tasks, customers can achieve 'significant savings,' Pennylane advertises. Currently, about 800,000 companies in France and 6000 tax consultants across Europe use the software. At the end of November last year, the fintech expanded into the Federal Republic. The company does not disclose how many customers it has gained since then in Germany, its second market. In this country, Pennylane competes with accounting software Datev, among others. The Paris-based fintech is not yet profitable. According to its own statements, the current annual recurring revenue is about 115 million euros. They are approaching profitability, Janiesch emphasized. However, the company does not aim for profitability 'for its own sake.' 'Our corporate strategy follows a long-term vision: We are investing massively today to quickly create the best possible tool,' said Janiesch.