Backend Engineer (Berlin, Germany)

Backend Engineer

Company Overview

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.

Job Summary

We're on the lookout for a Backend Engineer to join our Staffbase team and help us build an awesome internal communications platform. We are looking for empathetic and motivated team players who are motivated by growth and ownership. Let's talk!

As part of our tech stack, we are using: React.js, Javascript, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, Kotlin, Go, Java, MongoDB, Terraform, Docker and Playwright, to name a few.

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 a talented and diverse Software Engineering team, a group of passionate problem-solvers dedicated to building innovative solutions for our email product.

Our mission is to enable Communicators to leverage the full value of Staffbase Email across the Studio Platform, integrating it into other areas of the Staffbase product suite. We collaborate closely with product teams across the organization to deliver a scalable and user-centric software that makes a real impact.

With a focus on a cohesive and enterprise grade experience, we pride ourselves on staying at the cutting edge of technology. Expect to work in an agile environment where creativity, learning, and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend services that power our Email product — from email data management to analytics and content generation
• Develop and maintain scalable Go services that handle high-throughput processing, event-driven communication, and reliable integrations with external email providers
• Contribute to a distributed system landscape built around REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, and data-intensive workloads
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to enable seamless Studio integrations and deliver a cohesive user experience
• Take ownership of features end-to-end — from concept and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Work in an agile, cross-functional team with strong code review practices and a shared responsibility for quality
• Continuously improve reliability, observability, and performance using modern monitoring and tracing tools
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated releases, ensuring safe and frequent deployments
• Proactively identify technical improvements and help shape the evolution of our Email domain architecture

Requirements / Qualifications

• Experience as a Backend Engineer, ideally with exposure to Go
• Additional experience with Java or Kotlin is beneficial
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Passion for the things you build and want to make a difference
• 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
• Understanding and appreciative diversity and inclusivity in the workplace

Location

Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Remote: False

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

• 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
• Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
• Support - we're offering a company pension scheme
• Volunteers Day - you'll get one day off per year for supporting a social project