Senior n8n Business Automation Developer

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Business Automation Developer at Kaufland automating complex business processes with n8n and optimizing AI agents. Collaborating cross-functionally to enhance automation and AI capabilities.

Responsibilities:

  • You automate complex business processes reliably and maintainably using tools such as n8n
  • You design, create, and optimize AI agents using modern LLMs and associated tooling (prompting, retrieval, evaluation/guardrails, RAG)
  • You partner with business teams to analyze, redesign, and automate new and existing processes from discovery through rollout
  • You collaborate with our Center of Excellence for Automation to propose, prioritize, and lead initiatives that advance our automation and AI platforms
  • You work cross-functionally with technical experts, product managers, and business stakeholders to share best practices, document patterns, and enable self-service automation across the company

Requirements:

  • Comfortable scripting in JavaScript for n8n Function nodes or with equivalent programming experience (foundational programming skills, Python experience, etc.)
  • Experience with automation/orchestration tools such as n8n, Zapier, Make, or similar
  • Comfortable integrating SaaS applications and internal systems via APIs, webhooks, OAuth, and event-driven patterns
  • Proficient with APIs and data manipulation: JSON, REST, SQL for joins/aggregations, and occasional regex
  • Experience with prompt engineering and building AI agents is a plus
  • Strong communicator able to explain trade-offs to both business and engineering stakeholders and to produce concise documentation and playbooks
  • Enjoy working in an international environment and fluent in English (C1); good German skills (B2) are a plus

Benefits:

  • Create your own work–life balance: Flexible choice to work remotely (within Germany) or from one of our offices in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf or Berlin
  • Relocation support: Attractive relocation package if you want to move to Germany to help you get started smoothly
  • Fitness & wellness: Urban Sports Club and RSG Group fitness studios — great deals for fitness, swimming, yoga, and more
  • Mental well‑being: Access to programs such as Instahelp for online psychological counseling
  • Vacation & sabbatical: 30 days of vacation per year and the option to take a sabbatical after a qualifying period with the company
  • Pluxee restaurant vouchers: Option to purchase Pluxee vouchers and benefit from tax-advantaged meal allowances
  • Deutschlandticket subsidy: We subsidize your regional train season ticket for increased mobility
  • Employee discount: Monthly coupon for Kaufland.de
  • Choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux — it's up to you
  • Professional development: Access to online language learning, diverse internal training, automated 360-degree feedback, and coverage for relevant conferences, training, and approved team workshops to foster in-person collaboration