About Staffbase

We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to 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.

As a Senior Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our products and driving the development of scalable and robust backend/data systems. The ideal candidate will have experience with and interest in overall system architecture, be an expert in backend design, and bring some hands-on experience in data engineering and DevOps.

The building blocks of our team/company backend stack are: Go, Python, Kotlin, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, and Dagster. If you do not know/do not have experience with some of these - we would still love to receive your application.

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

What you’ll be doing

  • Guide architectural discussions and contribute to the overall technical strategy of the team

  • Lead by example: Take ownership of the topics you care about, ranging from the features you produce over the quality of our work to the environment we work in

  • Responsible for improving and developing our RESTful web services and Data Platform

  • 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 is essential

  • You work iteratively, frequently pushing code, maintaining an efficient CI/CD pipeline, and automating where possible

  • Embrace "you build it, you run it": Take full ownership of your code beyond just pushing to the repository. This means monitoring deployments in production, building dashboards, configuring alerts, writing clear documentation, and owning your domain from the code all the way through to the Kubernetes namespace where it runs

What you need to be successful

  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

  • Passion about the things you build and want to make a difference

  • You strive for knowledge-sharing and moving your team forward

  • Experience in Go and Python

  • Ideally, you have worked with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Docker before and have an understanding of Data Orchestration, REST and Microservices

  • Preferably, you have worked in an agile environment before

  • You value quality as well as clean code and learning new things

  • Good English communication skills

  • Understanding and appreciation of 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

  • 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