Backend Engineer

About Staffbase

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The Team

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

• Responsible for improving and developing both our web-based clients, including native apps, and our 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
• Take ownership for the topics you care about, ranging from the features you produce over the quality of our work to the environment we work in
• You work iteratively, frequently pushing code, ensuring a good CI/CD pipeline, and automating where possible

What you need to be successful

• Experience working as a Backend Engineer
• Experience in Kotlin (highly desirable) and Golang, or Java
• 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 have worked with MongoDB, Terraform, Docker before and have an understanding of REST and Microservices, next to that, you are passionate for Test Driven Development
• 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
• You are a self-starter who can work independently and as part of a team
• You understand and appreciate diversity and inclusivity in the workplace

What you'll get

• Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including an Employee Stock Option 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)
• Recharging - 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
• Sports & Health - join our sport courses in the offices or lease a bike with Staffbase. The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks
• 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. We will donate a small amount for that project in addition
• 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