Principal (Staff) Full Stack Engineer, Berlin

We're currently in a growth phase and looking for people who can join us as soon as possible.

Learn more: www.kittl.com/career

A little about us

• Kittl isn’t just another design platform: We’re here to transform the way creators work, offering an intuitive platform as a competitive alternative to traditional design tools

• Boasting millions of users only 2 years after launch: our users have created millions of designs on Kittl

• Diverse team: 70+ team members from 22+ different countries

• Product-led: Product managers, engineers, and designers are at the heart of Kittl

• Funding: Kittl has raised more than $50M from some of the most prestigious investors in the world that also have backed companies like Slack, Dropbox and Figma.

We're currently in a growth phase and looking for people who can join us as soon as possible.

Permanent role | Hybrid 

Learn more: https://www.kittl.com/career

Your role at Kittl

We’re looking for Principal Full Stack Engineers who will act as technical experts working with a cross-functional team which includes product managers, developers, designers and a founding team. You’ll be handling design and implementation of new high-impact product features, creating and developing an amazing product that you will be proud of. Main frontend responsibilities include building components and ever-evolving UI systems using modern web tech stack. Backend responsibilities include working on our internal APIs, billing as well as 3rd party integrations, and improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization.

You’ll help the engineering team solve problems and overcome challenges. You’ll partner closely with our Talent Acquisition team to hire great engineering talent and mentor engineers, ensuring we’re building a positive and inclusive working environment for everyone.

What you'll do

• Produce high-quality results: You'll lead and contribute heavily to large cross-functional projects that have a significant impact on the business

• Establish good engineering practices: You'll drive technological excellence and shape the technical vision across the whole company

• Resolve production issues: Assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging production issues

• Identify challenges: Proactively address both frontend, backend and infrastructure challenges, driving technical decisions within the company

• Own features or systems: Define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems

• Collaborate: Help product teams better understand engineering challenges and break down complex projects into manageable and easy to grasp tasks

What you'll need

• Experience: Minimum 8 years of professional development experience with a focus on TypeScript, React, and Node.js

• Backend: Familiarity with ORM tools as well as experience writing raw SQL

• Modern web development tools: Proficiency in linting libraries such as ESLint and testing libraries like Jest and Cypress

• Application state management: Expertise in complex application state management

• Cloud: Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and familiarity with static hosting approaches, platforms and caveats

• Interviewing: Experience with structured interviewing, ideally in a scaleup or big tech

• Work smart: You know how to make complex things simple, and can work fast and smart at the same time

Interview process:

• Recruiter interview (30 minutes)

• Technical take home assignment

• Technical interview (60 minutes)

• Director of Engineering interview (30 minutes)

• CTO interview (30 minutes)

• Bar Raiser Interview with Founders Associate, right hand to CEO (15 minutes)

Benefits

• Urban Sports Club membership discount 

• Mobility benefit: monthly public transport (BVG) ticket fully covered by the company 

• German language courses subsidised by the company

• 30 vacation days per year for all employees

• An allowance of 50 working days per year (10 weeks, if you count the weekend) of fully remote work from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain core working hours (12pm to 5pm CET)

• We have a hybrid setup with office and work-from-home days so that we can foster a nice culture and in-person collaboration when needed

• Core working hours are 12pm to 5pm, with the rest of your working time being flexible so you can work in a style that suits you best (early riser or a night owl)

• You'll be working with a truly product-led company with PM's, engineers and designers at the heart of the company

• Regular team events and offsites

🌈 At Kittl, we embrace diversity and value every team member's unique background, identity, and experience. We're all about respect, honesty, and inclusivity. Together, we create a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on this exciting journey of making our company and product even better!