Staff Engineer - Fullstack (in Chemnitz)

About Staffbase

We inspire 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, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 550+ 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.

We're on the lookout for staff level Fullstack 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.

As part of our tech stack, we are using: React.js, Javascript, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, Kotlin, Go, Java, MongoDB, Terraform, Docker and Playwright, 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.

What you’ll be doing

  • Lead technical strategy and architecture
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver a high-quality SaaS product that is reliable, accessible, easy to use, and delights our customers
  • Influence technical decisions and their documentation, driving long-term sustainable solutions to accommodate future growth and requirements
  • Continuously improve and refine our development processes, CI/CD pipeline, and automation practices to foster a productive development experience
  • Take ownership of major technical decisions, proactively addressing system bottlenecks and ensuring product quality
  • Contribute to and maintain technical roadmaps with engineering leadership to align project priorities and business goals
  • Manage and prioritize projects and initiatives across multiple teams
  • Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence and continuous improvement within the team
  • Role modeling and developing others in the craft of Product Software Engineering
  • Mentor and guide engineers, providing leadership, feedback and fostering growth through code reviews and technical discussions

What you need to be successful

  • Proven track record as a Staff Engineer or Technical Lead with strong leadership and problem-solving skills
  • Extensive experience with Go on the backend and React on the frontend
  • Knowledge of architecture and design patterns
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • Ability to drive technical direction, including making decisions on architectural trade-offs and evaluating the long-term impact of technical choices
  • Experience managing architecture projects across multiple development teams, aligned with their roadmaps and stakeholders
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to various stakeholders, both technical and non-technical
  • Previous experience working alongside Product and Design Leaders to deliver customer value in an Agile environment
  • Passion for building high-quality software
  • Passion for diversity and inclusion, and the ability to foster a culture where the team can move forward at speed while ensuring that everyone’s voice is heard and they can contribute their best

What you'll get 

  • Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based 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
  • Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
  • Support - we offer offering a company pension scheme
  • Volunteers Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project
Chemnitz

Also available in Berlin, Dresden

Engineering