Your mission

GotPhoto is looking for an enthusiastic Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (preferably with a Front End inclination) to join our Engineering Team in Berlin. Your mission will be to design, build, and maintain scalable software solutions that empower our photography customers to efficiently manage and grow their businesses.

You will be part of a dynamic Engineering team of around 40 engineers, reporting directly to an Engineering Manager. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, QA, Product Design, Data, and other business stakeholders in a product-first, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain distributed systems and event-driven services as we continue our transformation from a monolithic PHP system toward a modern TypeScript-based microservices architecture.
• Design, build and maintain frontends that interact with the services in this new architecture
• Own the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) — from technical design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Data teams to deliver impactful and high-quality features.
• Contribute to a system that processes 2M+ orders annually, ensuring performance, scalability, and data integrity.
• Participate in peer reviews, pair programming, hackathons, and internal tech talks to continuously improve our engineering culture.
• Act as a proactive communicator who thrives in an asynchronous and hybrid work environment.
• Make thoughtful, mature use of AI tools to increase productivity - without filling our codebase with slop!

We are looking for

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience with TypeScript, React (or similar frontend frameworks) and Node.js.
• Proven experience building distributed systems and working with event-driven architectures.
• Ability to take end-to-end ownership of features — from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Experience working in asynchronous or remote-first environments with clear communication practices.
• A product-focused mindset — you care about building features that solve real user problems.
• Strong collaborative skills and fluency in English (written and spoken).

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS services and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Some PHP experience (although not essential)
• Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Sentry, Uptrace).
• Previous exposure to transitioning from monolithic to microservices architectures.
• Experience with micro frontends
• Interest in mentoring or supporting more junior engineers.