Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Backend Engineer (Golang) role sits within a mature SaaS product context: an AI-native employee experience platform with multiple client surfaces (web, native apps) backed by REST services. Work on media and file management is a recurring SaaS challenge because it touches performance, security, and reliability at scale, while still being tightly coupled to end-user workflows and product usability.
For a long-term SaaS engineering career, the position offers exposure to the operational realities that distinguish SaaS from project-based software—iterative delivery, CI/CD discipline, and the “build it, run it” ownership model. Experience improving service quality, automation, and backend foundations in a cross-functional environment translates well across SaaS categories, especially where product teams depend on stable platform capabilities to ship customer-facing features.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer pragmatic backend work close to product outcomes, and who value code review, testing, and incremental improvement over large one-off rewrites. It will fit someone comfortable collaborating with product, design, and frontend counterparts, and who wants to deepen Go expertise while working across a polyglot stack common in established SaaS organizations.
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Job Description
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, Tokyo, Prague, 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.
We're on the lookout for a Backend 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, 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.
The Team
Join our dynamic, cross-functional international team and help shape the future of media and file management, crafting intuitive and engaging experiences that empower communicators worldwide. Our mission is to make every image, video, and file feel effortless, fast, and secure, giving customers the confidence to manage their content without friction.
Here, you’ll collaborate closely with design, product, and frontend engineers to continuously improve our File Manager and related media tools. If you're passionate about backend technologies, and transforming complex systems into seamless experiences, this is the perfect place to bring your ideas to life.
What you’ll be doing
- Responsible for improving and developing both our web-based clients, 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
- 2+ years experience as a Backend Engineer working with Go
- 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
- 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 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
- Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance €35, from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation
- Support-we’re offering a company pension scheme
- Volunteers Day- you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project
