About Staffbase

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

Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in Berlin, New York, London, 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.

We're on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer with Java/Kotlin to join our QA Infrastructure Team and help us build an awesome internal communications platform. We're looking for empathetic and motivated team players who are motivated by growth and ownership.

As a Senior Software Engineer in QA you have solid software development skills to create, deploy and operate various automated test infrastructure components. You have a thorough understanding of clean software design and architecture and are familiar with reviewing a production codebase. You play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining our internal quality assurance frameworks and facilitating adoption with our product teams.

• Our platform is built with React.js, Javascript, Typescript, Kotlin, Go, Java, MongoDB, Terraform and Docker, to name a few
• We use toolings like Github Actions, Cypress, Appium, Playwright, Sonarcloud or Grafana to build our QA infrastructure.

Our environment

• Working with skilled and similar-minded professionals in a team dedicated to Quality Assurance 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

What you’ll be doing

• You'll be responsible for improving and developing our test frameworks including native apps and our REST-ful web services
• Working in a dedicated QA infrastructure team producing high-quality tools and guidelines for our product teams
• Giving and receiving valuable feedback in our code review process and continuously learning and sharing knowledge with your peers
• Being open to feedback and taking ownership of your work
• Taking ownership for the topics you care about, ranging from the services you produce, the documentation of our work to the environment we work in
• You'll work iteratively, frequently pushing code, ensuring a good CI/CD pipeline and automating where possible

What you need to be successful

• Deep programming skills in Java/Kotlin to ensure product quality and maintain services
• A passion for software quality, the services you build and seeking to make a difference
• You value quality as well as clean code and learning new things. Next to that, you are passionate for Test Driven Development
• You should be familiar with test approaches like unit tests and integration tests
• A good understanding of REST principles and Microservices
• Strong knowledge of GitHub Actions
• Ideally, you have worked with MongoDB, Terraform and Docker before
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Preferably, you have worked in an agile environment before
• Good English communication skills
• Understanding and appreciative diversity and inclusivity in the workplace

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
• Team Building - Regular team and office events including the yearly Staffbase Camp
• 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