Frontend Engineer - Employee App (in Berlin)

About Staffbase

We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication. Our industry-leading and award-winning communications channels – intranet, employee app and email solutions – create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.

Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in Berlin, New York, London, and Minneapolis–St.Paul, our diverse team of 750+ employees supports 2,000+ customers 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.

Hey there! We're on the lookout for a Senior Frontend 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, Kotlin, Go, Java, MongoDB, Terraform, Docker, Selenium and Cypress, 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 vision is to provide an outstanding experience for our end users and a reliable app framework to other teams in a transparent way.

We follow the "You build it, you run it" approach and take pride in it

What you’ll be doing

  • 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.
  • Being open to feedback and taking ownership of your work are essential.
  • 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.

What you need to be successful

  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • You are a Frontend Engineer with experience in finding and choosing fitting external libraries as well as judging if using a library is even needed/desired in the first place.
  • You are able to extend the functionality in React if needed and are experienced with Typescript.
  • You definitely care about details and Responsive Design, always having customer needs and End-User Experience in mind.
  • You are keen on increasing a products level of Accessibility and familiar with best practices to do so.
  • You are able to navigate large, complex as well as potentially old code bases and to read unfamiliar code efficiently.
  • You are experienced in writing E2E tests (Playwright / webdriver-IO / etc.) and care for quality, testability, security, and documentation in general.
  • You are used to working with existing SDK and towards existing API.
  • Preferably, you have worked in an agile environment before.
  • Good English communication skills.
  • You are a self-starter who can work independently and as part of a team.
  • Understanding and appreciating diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.

What you'll get

  • Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including an 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.
  • Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of €1000, and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year).
  • Recharging - Recharge with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August to enjoy a summer break (Recharge Fridays).
  • Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance €35, from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation.
  • Support - we’re offering a company pension scheme.
  • Sports & Health - join our sport courses in the offices or lease a bike with Staffbase. The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks.
  • Team Building - Regular team and office events including the yearly Staffbase Camp.
  • Volunteers Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project.
  • Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid.

 

Berlin

Also available in Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig

Engineering