Senior Full Stack Engineer (f/m/d) - Berlin | Germany | EMEA
Company Overview
Hygraph is a dynamic Berlin-based startup and a GraphQL-native, API-first headless CMS built for teams delivering complex, composable digital experiences. Hygraph is on a mission to eliminate complexity for global teams and help them scale content without friction. Our platform empowers you to create, deliver, and distribute content faster and at scale. We’re a team committed to shaping the future of AI-powered content platforms. Trusted by over 50,000 teams worldwide, Hygraph powers structured content across websites, applications, product experiences, and AI-enabled systems.As AI reshapes how digital experiences are created and operated, Hygraph is helping organizations build on structured, trusted content foundations that enable human-first, AI-accelerated experiences at scale. You will be part of a remote-first, globally distributed team committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately. We believe in a remote-first approach where everyone is encouraged to do their best from wherever they are and work together with transparency, accountability, and ownership. We learn continuously through feedback and have a yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences.
Job Summary
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll work at the intersection of engineering and product to shape how our users build with Hygraph. You'll ship features that solve real customer problems, contribute to our CMS core, extend our platform capabilities, and help bring AI-powered features to life. You won't wait for perfect specs or pixel-perfect designs. You'll use your judgment, collaborate closely with PMs and customers, and move fast using modern AI-assisted development tools.This role is for someone who sees engineering as a team sport, takes ownership without waiting for permission, and thrives in an environment where initiative matters more than instructions.
What you will be working on:
- Core CMS development: Evolve the GraphQL-native CMS powering enterprise teams worldwide, improving performance, reliability, and developer experience.
- CMS extensions and integrations: Develop and maintain extensions that expand what customers can do with Hygraph.
- AI-powered features: Contribute to our AI roadmap by building intelligent capabilities into the product.
- Customer-facing improvements: Use monitoring data, customer feedback, and your product instinct to proactively identify and fix problems before they're reported.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate in a cross-functional, autonomous team to deliver features and continuous improvements, often working from rough prototypes or early concepts rather than polished designs.
- Translate business needs into technical solutions by working closely with Product Managers. Occasionally, participate in customer conversations to validate that what you're building actually solves their problems.
- Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude, Codex, or similar) to accelerate development, or excited to adopt them quickly.
- Proactively identify issues through monitoring and observability data. Then fix them, don't just flag them.
- Contribute to architectural decisions that keep our platform scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
- Share what you know, learn from others, and help your teammates grow. Engineering here is collaborative. We win together.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Significant experience (typically 6+ years) building and owning production systems, with strong full-stack skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and deep backend expertise (ideally Node.js).
- Experience building user interfaces, ideally with React.
- Experience developing well-tested APIs (GraphQL and/or REST).
- Strong understanding of backend systems, scalability, and performance fundamentals.
- Solid knowledge of relational databases (especially PostgreSQL), including schema design and query optimization.
- Active use of AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, Codex, or similar) in your workflow, or a clear, demonstrated eagerness to adopt them.
- Ability to work with ambiguity: rough prototypes, evolving requirements, and imperfect information. You use judgment and experience to fill the gaps.
- Strong product sense. You think about why you're building something, not just how. You care about the customer experience, not just the code.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You speak up when something's off, share credit when things go well, and give feedback with respect and clarity.
- A growth trajectory that shows steady improvement. You don't have to know everything, but you need to demonstrate that you learn fast and keep raising your own bar.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with on-call or operations (incident response, etc.), or openness to taking this on as we grow the team.
- Experience with GraphQL and Golang.
- Familiarity with cloud-native development (AWS, GCP).
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools (Pulumi, Terraform).
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (New Relic, Datadog, or similar).
- Experience working directly with customers or in customer-facing roles.
- Familiarity with headless CMS platforms or content infrastructure.
Location
Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Remote: True
Salary & Benefits
- Yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences.
Application Process
- Intro call with People Team
- Interview with the Hiring Manager
- Technical Interview
- C-Level Call and Reference Check (optional)
- Job Offer
The response time after application, screening applications, and setting up the first intro call is usually within 1-2 weeks. You could expect some alterations when necessary.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Hygraph is an equal-opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe that diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace's productivity and promote innovation and creativity.
