Software Engineer - Expansion Squad (all genders)
Company Overview
At ToolTime, we build cloud-based software for trades people — a platform that digitizes workflows, reduces admin work, and gives craft businesses valuable time back in their day. Since 2019, our mission has been to simplify every step of their operations, from creating offers to tracking time.
Behind this mission stands a diverse team of 80+ talented people from various backgrounds and nationalities who work together to modernize the trades’ industry in a meaningful and sustainable way. What sets us apart? The energy of a modern SaaS startup combined with a strong financial foundation. With €55 million in funding and investors deeply connected to the trades sector, we’re well positioned to scale our product and impact even further.
ToolTime’s DNA is shaped by innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement — and we’re always looking for motivated people who want to push the industry forward with us.
In Germany alone, there are more than a million tradespeople, most of which are facing cumbersome paperwork and outdated software. With our software we want to make the crafting industry digital, easier and more effective. Headquartered in Berlin, ToolTime developed a modern and easy-to-use software for these businesses to free tradesmen and -women from tiring tasks and to save valuable time while catering to their particular needs and wants. We are currently around 100 people from very different backgrounds and nationalities and to accommodate everyone as best as possible our company language is English. It’s very important to us that our employees enjoy being part of ToolTime, the office, the general atmosphere and get along with the team. We are always open to our employees’ improvement suggestions so that they can have the best possible experience while working. Join us and become part of our amazing journey! 🚀
Job Summary
If you’re looking for a meaningful role in a fast-growing, well-funded SaaS company, we’d love to hear from you. 🧑 💻 You know you're a ToolTimer, if you:
- Want to work on a product that has a significant direct impact on one of Germany's most powerful industries
- Consider yourself one of the best in your field and want to thrive in an environment of equally talented colleagues
- Are self-driven and would never just want to work in a ticket factory
- Seek a culture where all voices matter when it comes to shaping the future of the product and therefore, the workflow of the entire trades industry
- Want to work with colleagues who have your back and absolutely want to set you up for success
Key Responsibilities
- Build and own user-facing product features end-to-end, across React + TypeScript frontend and Kotlin backend services
- Take responsibility for feature delivery from initial design through production rollout and iteration
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering to shape requirements and deliver features users love
- Translate product ideas into pragmatic technical solutions, making sensible tradeoffs within a mature codebase
- Ensure software quality through testing, CI/CD, production monitoring, and shared engineering best practices
- You'll be part of the Expansion Squad, focused on delivering features that can create MRR opportunities and bring more completeness to the product.
Requirements / Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong backend experience with Java and/or Kotlin in production systems, ideally using Spring Boot (Experience with Java + Spring and willingness to learn Kotlin is absolutely fine)
- Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals, including API design (REST and GraphQL), data modeling, performance, and reliability
- Experience working with AWS services such as SNS, SES, and S3
- Familiarity with containerized and cloud-native environments, including Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure managed via Terraform
- Understanding of microservice architectures and relational databases (we use PostgreSQL)
- Strong experience building production frontend applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, ideally with several years spent primarily in these technologies
- Experience working in a large or mature codebase
- Product-oriented and pragmatic mindset, with attention to detail, strong communication skills, and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and make decisions that balance quality, speed, and impact
Location
Berlin, Germany. Hybrid work model: 2 days per week in our vibrant Friedrichshain office, close to Boxi & Warschauer Straße — and the flexibility to work remotely, including Workation options.
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
Your growth & development
- You’ll get insights into one of the best-funded startups in the trades industry and support us in a highly exciting growth phase.
- We foster a culture of curiosity, positivity, and collaboration (our core values).
- We value honest feedback and continuous learning, giving everyone the space to experiment — and make mistakes.
- We invest in you:€500 Learning & Development budget per year for training, courses, and upskilling.
- 5 days of paid educational leave (Bildungsurlaub) to use specifically for the trainings you take with your L&D budget.
- Plenty of room for ownership, creativity, and personal growth as we scale.
Flexibility & perks
- Build your own benefits package from more than 35 partners such as Urban Sports Club, Blinkist, 7Mind, Ikea, and many more.
- Access to our Corporate Benefits Portal with exclusive discounts on travel, sports, fashion, and more.
- 30 days of vacation, regular team & company events, plus two Company Weeks per year.
- A hybrid work model: 2 days per week in our vibrant Friedrichshain office, close to Boxi & Warschauer Straße — and the flexibility to work remotely, including Workation options.
Application Process
If this sounds exciting — let’s find out if we’re a good fit. We’d love to meet you. Also check out our blog.
Equal Opportunity Statement
At ToolTime, we believe that diverse teams build better products. We welcome people of all abilities, genders, cultural backgrounds, ages and sexual orientations. If you’re passionate about building great technology but don’t tick every single box in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. What matters most is your mindset, potential, and drive to grow — not just your resume.
