n8n Automation Engineer

Your responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing complex, multi-system automation workflows and custom integrations
• Replacing manual steps with scalable, event-driven solutions and high-performance logic
• Acting as the go-to authority for workflow optimization, error handling, and security protocols
• Translating business needs into technical specification and presenting them to stakeholders
• Coordinating API-based integrations with third-party SaaS providers
• Implementing reviews, data sets and evaluations within workflows
• Managing deployments via Git
• Maintaining self-hosted n8n instances (Docker), managing version upgrades, and performance tuning

The knowledge I own:

• 3+ years of experience in software development
• Strong commitment to creating maintainable, readable, and testable software (SOLID, DRY, KISS)
• Working experience with scripting languages (Python or JavaScript)
• Mastery of complex nodes (Merge, Code, Wait, Error Triggers), expression editor, and data transformation techniques
• Strong ability to write custom logic within the Code node, handling arrays, objects, and complex data structures
• Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, Webhooks, OAuth2 authentication, and JSON data structure
• Proficiency in both Relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis) for structured and unstructured data storage
• Experience with message brokers and queue handling (e.g., RabbitMQ, Redis Queue) to ensure reliable, asynchronous processing of high-volume tasks
• Experience with Docker-based environments, environment variables, and self-hosted instance maintenance

• Nice-to have (n8n specialization):
• n8n Certifications: n8n Level 1; n8n Level 2
• Production experience in n8n automation
• Proficiency in Git-based workflow management and CI/CD principles for automation

The offer that would convince me:

• In our international team you can work with our colleagues from all over the world
• We develop our own product and focus on high-quality, stable solutions
• At ALDI our code quality is established by Clean Coding and SOLID principles and testing
• We are committed to build up teams where trust and honest communication are essentials to our daily work
• Flexible working hours with home office possibility
• Regular salary increase, we follow the inflation and reward loyalty
• Continuous learning opportunities though our own e-learning platform and internal teams
• Home office possibility