Stuttgart, Germany

CtrlMovie is the world-wide leading company for interactive storytelling with a track-record of bring feature length, interactive life action movies to the cinema. We’re a small team of highly professional movie makers and technology developers.

At CtrlMovie we are comitted to pushing the boundaries of creativity and technology with projects such as Late Shift and Hypnosis Mic.

Join us, and you’ll have the opportunity to do what you love while shaping the future of interactive entertainment.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced backend/full stack developer for our Web Services team.

As a part of the team, you would be responsible for developing web services and processes to enhance our cinema and customer facing data services. You will ensure we can improve the user experience for hundrets of thousends of users across the globe. You will be using a wide spectrum of technologies ranging from Redis, Docker, git, MySQL. You can either work with Node.js / Typescript on the server side as well as HTML/CSS/Javascript on the front-end.

You should have a good understanding of classic software engineering domains like data modelling, statistics and user interface design. Your primary responsibility will be developing RESTful web APIs and interfacing with data sources. In addition, you are also responsible for implementing APIs into client-side applications, ensuring a comprehensive full stack solution.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team where everyone is willing to expand their knowledge and is encouraged to continue learning new things. The team is characterized by passion, comradery, and the love for game development and movie making. You will work in close collaboration with other programmers, business customers and executive management with the opportunity to collaborate across CtrlMovie locations.

What you will do:

• Writing clear, modular, and maintainable code
• Participating in and leading feature task forces for technical design and implementation/improvement of new features
• Testing, debugging, profiling, and maintaining existing code
• Developing and maintaining internal APIs and web applications in Node.js

Qualifications

You appreciate working with high quality technology and are confident in your communication skills. You enjoy working and collaborating with a team that is open to innovative ideas and is learning and experimenting together to produce creative and innovative ways of solving technical problems. You take initiative and you are comfortable with working autonomously. Besides the above we are looking for someone aligned following skills and experience:

• Professional experience with Node.js / Typescript
• Skilled with writing efficient and highly optimized systems
• Solid understanding of distributed services
• A passion for statistics and data analysis
• Experience with HTTP, WebSockets, JavaScript, CSS, HTML
• Previous leadership experience or a strong interest in transitioning into a leadership role is a bonus.

Additional Information

We offer a competitive salary of 60.000 - 80.000 EUR , depending on previous experience and 28 days of paid vacation annually (full-time), plus all German national holidays.

All your application information will be kept confidential according to EEO & GDPR guidelines.