Learn (some) German. Admittedly not an engineering skill - but it will be greatly appreciated by your German colleagues. Background: Dutch engineer who lived in Germany for 3 years, and worked for one of their largest engineering orgs.
Thanks for the tip. I've enrolled in an A1 class with Goethe Institute starting in April. In your opinion, how difficult would it be to rent or potentially own a home on a single engineering salary? Looking at prices on https://www.immobilienscout24.de/, it does not seem possible after accounting for taxes. A salary of 60k ends up being about 3.2k net per month. If renting a home takes 2k of that, I may need to reconsider my country of choice.
It’s 20+ years since I lived in Germany (Berlin). At the time it was pretty easy to rent a high quality property for a reasonable price. I know a lot has changed since then, and the “global housing crisis” is also affecting Germany. Sorry can’t give you more details than that.
I am confident my language skills advice still applies.
I am a pragmatic Senior Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience that brings an agile mindset and a passion for solving my clients’ most challenging technical problems, experienced working onsite and remotely. I work in a structured and systematic manner and am a proponent of the agile philosophy.
My technical focus typically involves Golang and Java using open source tools and frameworks. I have designed and implemented build pipelines for "Continuous Delivery", and I have extensive experience on Scrum teams and as Scrum Master. My projects often include implementation and application of best practices such as test driven development, refactoring, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and code review.
I seek and try to evangelize the value of teamwork, commitment, integrity, and dedication to quality from my colleagues and client teams.
Native speaker of Dutch with full professional proficiency in English and German.
