Senior Frontend Engineer (in Chemnitz)

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—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.

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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 team is a talented and diverse Software Engineering team, a group of passionate problem-solvers dedicated to building innovative solutions for our Intranet product.

Our mission is to enable customers to leverage the full value of our Intranet offering, integrating it into other areas of the Staffbase product suite.  We collaborate closely with product teams across the organization to deliver a scalable and user-centric software that makes a real impact.

With a focus on a cohesive and enterprise grade experience, we pride ourselves on staying at the cutting edge of technology. Expect to work in an agile environment where creativity, learning, and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.

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.
• Passion for the things you build and want to make a difference.
• You have experience in React.js, JavaScript and TypeScript, next to that, you are passionate for Test Driven Development.
• Preferably, you have worked in an agile environment before.
• 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.

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.