Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Backend Engineer role sits in a mature SaaS environment building an AI native employee experience platform used by a large customer base. The product surface spans intranet, employee app, and email channels, which typically brings a mix of high volume delivery, integration heavy backend services, and reliability expectations that differ from earlier stage SaaS builds.
For a long term SaaS engineering career, the position offers exposure to the mechanics that keep subscription platforms dependable at scale: iterative delivery, CI/CD discipline, and the operational mindset behind “build it, run it.” Working across Go with optional Java or Kotlin, plus infrastructure tooling like Terraform and Docker, supports a skill set that transfers well across modern SaaS stacks where service ownership and automation are central.
This role is best suited to an experienced backend engineer who prefers clear ownership boundaries, regular code review, and collaboration inside a cross functional scrum team. It will appeal to candidates who like balancing feature development with quality, testing, and production readiness, and who are comfortable contributing in an English speaking, globally distributed organization with multiple offices.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
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 Senior Backend Engineers 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
- 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 topics ranging from the features you produce to 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
- 5+ years experience as a Backend Engineer working with Go and preferably Java/Kotlin
- 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
- Support-we offer offering a company pension scheme
- Volunteers Day- you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project
