Staff Engineer - Backend

Why You & We?

Are you product-focussed, a master in data, and hands-on? Do you enjoy working in an international startup environment, and would you like to play a key role in shaping our growing software solutions?

Then, we look forward to welcoming you to our wonderful Product-Team soon! You will work closely with our CTO and will develop scalable and maintainable APIs to automate the integration process of our SaaS product.

Staff Engineer - Backend

As a Staff Engineer for Backend development, you will work with our CTO and Tech Lead on a daily basis, focusing on developing APIs, backend systems and our POstgreSQL databases. Besides that, you will work closely with the clients and their tech teams to understand integration requirements and leverage data integration workflows in AI tools.

In addition to having a passion for data, it is particularly important to us that you are a team player, enjoy working with a small and agile team to deliver solutions in a fast-paced environment.

• Architecture & Software Engineering: Develop scalable and maintainable APIs, backend systems and workflows to allow customers integrating with Packa.
• Data Engineering: Develop and evolve data schemes and manage & optimize PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS to ensure efficient data handling and performance.
• Autonomous Tools Development: Create and maintain workflows, tools and interfaces that facilitate and automate the integration process of our SaaS product.
• Customer Collaboration: Work closely with clients and their technical teams to understand integration requirements and resolve any issues that arise.
• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate and improve integration processes, workflows, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Artificial Intelligence: Leverage data integration workflows in AI tools and models to automate processes, improve quality and quantity or complex data structuring tasks.
• Documentation: Develop comprehensive documentation for integration procedures, tools, and best practices for our customers as well as internal stakeholders.

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in backend software development, with a strong focus on data integrations, data engineering & system architecture.
• Integration expertise: Demonstrated experience integrating with ERP systems or other external parties and related data integration challenges.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in TypeScript and Nest.js for backend development, as well as experience with RDBMS (especially PostgreSQL) and AWS services & cloud architecture are a big plus.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and address complex integration issues as well as refining data integrations workflows.
• UI Development: Ability to build and maintain supporting UIs that aid in the integration process, leveraging modern frontend technologies, would be a plus.
• Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• General Requirements: You live in Berlin, speak fluent English and fluency in German is a plus.

• Ownership: You will be part of a highly motivated, diverse, and cross-functional product team, and you will have a high degree of freedom and responsibilities early on
• Impact: Join us at an early stage, shape our technology, and work with an exceptional team!
• Flexibility: Flexible work arrangements (hybrid work model)
• Leadership: You will work in a company with an inspiring vision, led by an experienced founder team and backed by leading investors!
• Goodvibes: Appreciation and commitment --> We believe in fair compensation, and you will benefit from a clear growth and development path

Not a 100% match, but you have skills that you think we can't do without? We always look forward to meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply anyway. We are also hiring for attitude, values, and personality, and we would love to develop our skills together.

We are looking forward to your application! :)

At Packmatic, we appreciate diversity! We’re committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or origin. We care for each other and are grateful for each person’s contribution to our mission!

About Packmatic:

We are rethinking the packaging market. We are creating solutions to bring the packaging industry into the digital age and improve its environmental footprint.

Our solution is so well received by our customers that we get 40-50 requests a week and we recently raised a Series A round of 15 million from leading VCs (lead investors: EQT & HV Capital). If you are as motivated as we are to modernize one of the largest B2B industries in the world and make a real impact in a very fast-growing digital start-up in the heart of Berlin, you've come to the right place. We have digitized the packaging procurement of numerous satisfied SME & Enterprise customers and helped them save tons of plastic - but that's just the beginning.