Senior Backend Engineer - Berlin (m/f/d) (Remote)

Senior Backend Engineer - Berlin (m/f/d)

About the job

We look for a passionate backend engineer with strong experience in the NodeJS ecosystem and some interest in architecture, cloud infrastructure and DevOps.

Tasks

Backend architecture - To empower thousands of users to build applications on top of Ninox, you design the system for scale. A system that is reliable, highly available, and comes with the promise of security. An infrastructure that just runs and never sleeps.

Impact - Take end-to-end responsibility for how Ninox users experience the product. Shape the future of no-code/low-code technology and help us shape new experiences for our users.

Lead by example - As a member of a fast-growing startup, you will be defining the way we work within the Engineering team but also how we collaborate with UX Designers, Content writers, Product Managers, and all the stakeholders.

Lean & Agile - Bring your knowledge and expertise and help us deliver faster and better. Contribute to improving clarity and visibility in our processes, with a big focus on planning and execution.

Quality & reliability - We serve tens of thousands of small and medium businesses which heavily rely on Ninox to drive their business and processes: bring our automated testing strategy, monitoring, and alerting solutions to the next level to detect defects early and ship fixes fast.

Requirements / Qualifications

• You have a degree in computer science or a comparable professional qualification.
• You have 7+ years of experience as a senior engineer, with a specific focus on backend technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, Jest and have experience in building well tested and robust REST Api’s
• Experience with logging, observability tools, and debugging production applications is required.
• You adhere to agile processes, coding best practices such as clean code, readability, furthermore you are adept at test-driven development
• You understand backend architecture patterns like modular monoliths, micro-services etc and keen awareness of trade-offs also good to have experience in Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Based architecture patterns.
• You can develop application leveraging SOLID patterns and understand other design patterns.
• You have experience with a range of backend technologies like NoSQL and relational DBMS e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB, message queuing services like Redis, RabbitMQ, SQS.
• You have a good overview about cloud services (e.g. AWS, GCP) and have deployed services on the cloud
• You keep yourself updated about the latest trends in the industry but also know when something is not yet ready for prime time.
• You are a team player, eager to mentor your junior colleagues and grow as a group.
• You are a good communicator and have very good written and spoken English.
• You're based in or near Berlin, or willing to relocate if you're already in Germany. This is a hybrid role with one office day per week and flexible remote work the rest of the time.

Benefits

• A diverse, multicultural, and highly motivated team. We believe that great teams are the key to success.
• Excellent working conditions with remote work options. We are results-driven, and we want to enable you to work at your best.
• An awesome dog-friendly office at the heart of Berlin-Mitte.
• Company Deutschlandticket
• Private Pension Plan
• 30 days of remote work – you can work from any country in the world.
• 30 days of vacation

Why Ninox

Ninox is a leading low-code platform for business applications. We empower business teams to take back ownership of their processes and work more efficiently. With Ninox, anyone can create database applications for internal processes like CRM, ERP and multi project management – without writing a line of code.Join us and bring low code to the next level! You will work together with inspiring team mates on a sophisticated product in a fast-growing company. And you will have the opportunity to shape the future of business software. Your work will have a direct impact on the day-to-day operations of thousands of Ninox customers.We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.”

Our application process in detail:

Send your application

After reviewing your application and assessing the match with our role, we will get in touch to schedule an initial 30-minute introduction call.

A 3–5-hour take-home test reflecting real work you’d do here.

Join us for a 90-minute technical review of your solution + deeper architecture/design discussion.

Meet your potential future teammates in a 60-minute culture-fit chat.

Align on vision, leadership principles, and technical direction in a 45-minute discussion with one of our tech leaders.

We will present our offer