Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

Engineering & Data · Full-time · Hybrid

That is where you come in.

Node.js
PostgreSQL
Scalability

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By email to aufeinbier@spontanoo.app

A suggestion in the app: a coffee round at a café 330 m away, on the map of Chemnitz, with the button “I’m in”; below it “Start something yourself”

Why we exist.

The best moments are unplanned. Yet today “spontaneous” often means “complicated”: calendars full, friends busy, and you end up at home again. Spontanoo shows what is starting near you right now and brings you together in small groups with people who are free too.

In the storesThe app is in the App Store and on Google Play.
Beta in ChemnitzThe beta is running in Chemnitz. This is where Spontanoo was founded.
Business ManagerHosts like bars, cafés and venues use it to give those meetups a place.

Our mission

The activity’s room: the group chat, a vote and the question from Spontanoo “Are you on your way?” with the button “On my way”

The role

Spontanoo gets people together in real life on short notice: small groups, today rather than someday. Behind the app and the Business Manager sits a backend that carries rooms, suggestions, notifications and billing.

What you will do

Develop our services with Node.js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL.
Design APIs that the app and our web surfaces can rely on.
Write database schemas and migrations that are safe to run on a live system.
Make sure the system keeps up as members and cities are added.
Own operations and debugging: logs, monitoring, clean deploys.

What you bring

Several years of backend work in Node.js and TypeScript.
Solid PostgreSQL skills: schema design, indexes, queries, migrations.
Experience running your own services in production.
You write tests because you like to sleep at night.
You explain technical decisions so that everyone on the team can follow.

What to expect

An early stage where your decisions carry for a long time.
Real ownership and short lines in a small team.
A live product in the stores with real members in Chemnitz.
Hybrid work, with Chemnitz as our base.

How we work.

Three lines from our manifesto. They are not hanging on a wall, we work by them.

Output
> Hours.

We don't care when you work or where you are. As long as you deliver, you're free. 9-to-5 is dead.

Radical Truth.

We're honest with each other. Even when it hurts. That's the only way we grow. No “sandwich feedback”, straight talk.

Obsessed with Users.

We don't build for ourselves. We build for the people who want to celebrate life. Every feature has to make real life better, otherwise it doesn't belong in the app.