Senior Backend Engineer

About Staffbase

Staffbase inspires 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.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for improving and developing both our web-based clients, including native apps, and our RESTful web services
• Work in a cross-functional scrum team and produce high-quality and tested code
• Give and receive valuable feedback in our code review process and continuously learn and share knowledge with your peers
• Take ownership for the topics you care about, ranging from the features you produce over the quality of our work to the environment we work in
• You work iteratively, frequently pushing code, ensuring a good CI/CD pipeline, and automating where possible

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience working as a Backend Engineer
• Must have experience in Kotlin
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Passionate about the things you build and want to make a difference
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation with LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
• Flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, with a yearly flex work allowance
• 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
• Monthly Wellbeing Allowance for fitness, mental health, hobbies, and relaxation
• Company pension scheme
• One day off per year for supporting a social project