About Staffbase

We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is t o help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first AI-native Employee Experience Platform. Our industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels – intranet, employee app and email solutions – create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.

Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 750+ employees supports 2,000+ customers – reaching over 16.4 million employees – in transforming their employee experience.

We are proud to be a Unicorn company – privately valued at over $1 billion – demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry.
Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.

Are you a battle-proven senior fullstack engineer with a passion for solving complex problems? We're on a critical mission to not just modernize but to reimagine and elevate our core News-domain.

Our environment

• Working with skilled and similar-minded professionals in a team that values diversity and inclusivity
• We aim to create a flexible and agile work environment that promotes the well-being and work-life balance of our employees
• We believe that team events during working hours play a vital role in building an exceptionally effective team, and we encourage them
• We are enthusiastic about technology and committed to using it to improve the world
• We follow the "You build it, you run it" approach and take pride in it

The Team

Our team is one of the oldest teams in our product organization: we are News!

You'll start by tackling the legacy foundation, clearing the path to lay a new, state-of-the-art groundwork. From there, you'll be a key player in igniting a new era of innovation, pushing the boundaries of what's possible and shaping the future of our central product.

If you’re a go-getter who loves to transform challenges into triumphs, this is the type of project you'll be proud to look back on. And you will do so with a wonderful team.

What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for improving and developing our web-based clients and RESTful web services
• Work in a cross-functional Scrum team and produce high-quality and tested code
• Give and receive valuable feedback in our code review process and continuously learn and share knowledge with your peers
• Being open to feedback and taking ownership of your work are essential
• You work iteratively, frequently pushing code, ensuring a good CI/CD pipeline, and automating where possible

What you need to be successful

General

• Expert knowledge of REST APIs and their design
• Experience in writing unit-tests and end-to-end (e2e) tests
• Initial experience in architectural design, writing and collaborating on ADRs with Staff Engineers, and shaping long-term technical direction, would be beneficial
• Ideally familiar with Docker, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Prometheus or Grafana

Frontend

• Proficient experience in JavaScript and TypeScript
• Mastery of React, and comfortable working without a framework when needed
• Awareness of Accessibility (a11y) best practices

Backend

• You are fluent in Kotlin (or Java) and comfortable driving backend design and implementation with it
• Comfortable working with databases (MongoDB is a plus)
• Experience with Golang is a plus

Mindset & Collaboration

• You value clean code, testing, and continuous learning
• Prior experience in an agile/Scrum environment
• Passion for the things you build and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex, ambiguous issues with limited guidance
• Knowledge of product discovery, especially evaluating feasibility collaboratively within a team, is a major plus
• You enjoy working with user stories and shaping solutions that actually solve user problems, not just coding tasks
• Very good English communication skills
• Openness towards AI technologies and curiosity about how they can improve our product and workflows

What you'll get

• Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
• Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560
• Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of €1000, and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year)
• Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
• Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance €35, from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation
• Support-we’re offering a company pension scheme
• Health - The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks and ergonomic workplaces
• Volunteers Day- you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project
• Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid