Engineering Manager @ Cloud-Based Testing SAAS Platform.

A Berlin-based role. 

Working from home with Berlin Based team meetings

€85,000 to €105,000 Annual Salary

+ Benefits. + Equity Options.

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to join a leader in cloud-based product testing. They have created the first 24/7 cloud-based SAAS testing suite.  This team is based in Berlin. The company also has offices in several major tech cities around the world. 

As the Engineering Manager, your role will be focusing on empowering people and influencing the development of useful products. Lead and manage Python and JavaScript software specialists. Collaborate with C-level executives to understand company goals, translate them into actionable chunks for your team and manage stakeholder expectations. 

We’re looking for someone with…

• 2+ years of experience managing software teams 
• Experience from Software As A Service (SAAS) company/companies
• Previous career experience as a Software Engineer (Python/JavaScript)
• Experience working with scalable microservices technical architecture systems
• Passion for leadership, empowering people and developing your colleagues’ skills
• Passionate about diversity and inclusion best practices and processes

This company takes pride in their inclusive culture. As the Engineering Manager, you must champion inclusivity, employee engagement and healthy work-life balance for your team & colleagues. You’ll organise team-building events that are educational, social and a bit of fun.

Get in touch if you’d like more info or to apply: Danny Stewart, DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com 

Senior Python Engineer

(Python Developer, Django or Flask, Jenkins, Docker)

Dark Store Rapid Delivery Hyper-Growth Tech Start-up

London, UK or Berlin, Germany (Working from home & Office-based-meetings)

£75,000 to £110,000 Annual Salary 

Benefits: Equity Options + Home Office Supplies + Learning Budget

We’re hiring Senior Python Engineers in London and/or Berlin to join a Technology Start-up developing a new type of grocery delivery service. The company is scaling rapidly in geographical locations and the hiring roadmap – this is a fast-moving, exciting and entrepreneurial opportunity to work with cutting edge technologies.

As the Senior Python Developer, you’ll work in multi-disciplined Agile product teams launching new features in CI/CD format and improving the cloud-based microservices technical architecture. We’re seeking someone motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming.

Tech stack: Python, Django/Flask, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Node.js (Express.js or Koa.js), JavaScript, React.js, ReactNative, GCP / AWS, REST API’s, GraphQL, SQL, NOSQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Apache, Nginx, Python 

We’re seeking someone with:

• 7+ years of commercial back end software development experience
• Experience from a technical software product company with multi-disciplined product teams
• Expert experience with Python and Django or Flask
• Excellent team collaboration & communication skills
• An entrepreneurial, enthusiastic approach to software problem solving 

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity package
• Enjoy 28 days holiday per year (plus all bank holidays)
• Spend your monthly wellbeing allowance on things that really matter to you ⁠— via our Juno benefits programme. This can be anything from veggie boxes to indoor plants, tax advice and much more
• Private health insurance
• Extended sick pay and maternity/paternity leave pay
• We will contribute 3% to your pension
• Make use of our home office allowance for office supplies
• Be part of a fast-growing company and a super motivated team

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive work environment. We firmly believe that a variety of backgrounds & perspectives make our team stronger and brings our product closer to the customer.

Please contact Danny Stewart at DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com for more info or to apply.

Engineering Manager 

€95k to €105k

Global sporting platform with millions of users. You will be joining a top, respected company in Berlin with a market leading and global product that has a real focus on people.

2021 has been an exciting year here so if you are into sports & streaming, this could be for you.

Remit:

• You will be responsible for a team of 10+, focused mostly on backend, mobile and QA.
• This team is working on one of the most interesting and ambitious products for the company focusing on personalised content and user experiences.

What experience will you bring to this role?

• Experience managing teams of this size and within a recent leadership role
• Hands off, focusing on team management, career development, safeguarding and being a true mentor / leader. People first first person with excellent technical skills.
• Tech – The technologies here tend to be Kotlin, Golang and Swift, AWS, microservices, kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, IaC (Infrastructure as Code).

Info:

Great salary, excellent benefits and a warm, collaborative and welcoming environment.

This is a fun, spirited workplace, people enjoy working there, and one that supports your own development. Big on the software engineering community.

** We are also looking at other Engineering Managers here, so if you don’t feel you quite meet the criteria, but are more focused on OTT / Streaming, or Re-architecting & Server Driven UI please do also apply.

Senior Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails)

FinTech Platform Tech Startup  

A service that gives people in 3rd world countries access to financial freedom.

Office in Berlin, Flexible/remote working

€70,000 to €80,000 Annual Salary (depending on experience)

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails) to join a product development team within a growing FinTech startup, who’s technology helps end-users in Africa get access to financial tools and services to improve their standard of living.

The Platform is a middle layer connecting mobile-first end-user culture via aggregator API’s to large traditional financial institutions. It’s a highly scalable, military-grade secure technology product, divided into three Agile Scrum multi-disciplinary product teams.

What we’re looking for from you:

Senior Backend Development experience

Ruby on Rails or other backend language skills with a willingness to transfer to Ruby

Relational Database knowledge, including how to model entities

Test-Driven Development or similar testing software development culture

Any AWS, Heroku & Docker experience is highly beneficial

A mindset for scaling and scalability (both technically and commercially)

Very good English communication skills

The company values communication openly and this is reflected in the culture; everyone in the company works from home most of the time but is expected to attend Berlin based meetings. There are the daily stand-ups and frequent meetings online, as well as a super transparent policy for communicating via slack.

As well as being well funded (partly Google backed), they are generating revenue already, meaning it’s safe, secure startup with a long term future that offers all the interesting elements of an entrepreneurial fast pace product company.

Please get in touch with Alex Foreman at Redsofa Berlin for the next steps (aforeman@RedsofaBerlin.com)

Educational Technology Start-up 

(Founded in 2017)

Berlin, Germany

(Office & Working from home)

€70k to €75k Annual Salary + Benefits + Perks

(Every other Friday off but with full pay)

We’re looking to hire a Senior Go Back End Developer to join a growing education-tech start-up, creating a useful suite of studying tools for university faculty and students.

As the Senior Go Developer, you’ll join a small, agile product team of 5 engineers to design and build a new educational product. You’ll be involved with microservices architecture decisions, technology choices and influencing the product roadmap to deliver viable solutions.

Tech Stack: Go (GOlang), MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Typescript, Redux.

We’re seeking someone with:

• More than 5 years of commercial software development experience.
• Experience delivering software products.
• Experience working with the tech stack mentioned above.
• Solid experience as a Senior Developer

This Senior Go Backend Developer opportunity is ideal for a software engineer that enjoys building new greenfield products whilst working with cutting edge technologies. The culture is welcoming, friendly and dedicated to creating useful tools for the education sector.

Get in contact with Alex Foreman at Red Sofa Berlin to apply/for more information (Aforeman@RedSofaBerlin.com)

Senior Frontend Developer

€70k to €80k

Ever wondered what Fair-fintech is all about? This opening is for an untypical Fintech company with a real-world problem mission.

This is a digital solution for milions of people and families from emerging countries who are excluded by the traditional loan and banking systems.

You will be joining a well funded and backed company on a growth path – You will be joining a mission to enable millions of people from emerging countries to become financially healthy.

You:

• Experienced working with React for 4+ years
• You are user-focused, can work closely with design and have a scalability way of thinking
• You are product focused in the way you code
• A friendly and mission led person, you can work closely with other engineers who are open to learning from eachother with an open mind
• As a Senior Developer you will mentor and support junior engineers.

The company is engineering-led and independent, so your opinion and ideas are really felt. There is an open culture where you are encouraged to talk openly about possible changes and improvements you feel can help shape the company.