Backend Engineer - Mid Level - Autopilot Team

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>About Staffbase</strong></h3> <p>We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first <strong>AI-native Employee Experience Platform</strong>. Our<strong> industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels</strong> - intranet, employee app and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.</p> <p>Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 550+ employees supports 1,500+ customers—reaching over 14 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.<br>We are proud to be a <strong data-stringify-type="bold">Unicorn</strong> 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.</p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We're on the lookout for a talented Backend Engineer to join our <strong>Autopilot</strong> team and help us build an awesome internal communications platform. We are looking for empathetic and motivated team players, motivated by growth and ownership.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Our environment</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Working with skilled and similar-minded professionals in a team that values diversity and inclusivity.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We aim to create a flexible and agile work environment that promotes the well-being and work-life balance of our employees.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We are enthusiastic about technology and committed to using it to improve the world.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We follow the "You build it, you run it"-approach and take pride in it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Team</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Autopilot is one of the newest and most ambitious initiatives in our product organization. We're building the automation and agent layer for the Staffbase platform: giving customers the ability to configure their own event-driven, rule-based and agentic workflows.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Responsible for developing and improving our RESTful web services, including utilizing and integrating LLMs into our services, with some involvement in our web-based clients</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Work in a cross-functional Scrum team and produce high-quality and tested code</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Give and receive valuable feedback in our code review process and architectural advisory forums, continuously learning from and sharing knowledge with your peers</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Use AI coding tools to move faster without offloading judgment: you'll own the design, keep PRs small and reviewable, and make sure every change is something you can explain and stand behind — whether that review comes from a peer or an AI tool</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take ownership for what you care about: from the features you build, to the quality of our work, to the environment we work in</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You work iteratively, frequently pushing code, ensuring a good CI/CD pipeline, and automating where possible</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What you need to be successful</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You are a Backend Engineer experienced in Go, Java/Kotlin and relational databases like Postgres or NoSQL databases like MongoDB</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ideally, you have worked with Docker, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Prometheus or Grafana before and have a good understanding of REST and Microservices</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You bring a sound understanding of testing practices, and take responsibility for the quality and correctness of the code you produce</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Preferably, you have worked in an agile environment before</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You value clean code and learning new things</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Good English communication skills</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You're a self-starter who takes initiative while collaborating well with others</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What you'll get</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><em>Competitive Compensation</em> - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Flexibility </em>- we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><em>Recharge</em> - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Support</em><strong> </strong>-<strong> </strong>we offer offering a company pension scheme</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Volunteers Day</em><strong> </strong>- you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project</span></li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><h3><strong><img src="https://imgur.com/a/kIbq0q5" alt="" style="max-width: 100%;"></strong></h3></div>

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