Job Description

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.


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