Lead Full Stack Developer 

Mental Health Tech Start-up (Stealth Mode)

Freelance Contract
Competitive Salary
Remote Working
Flexible Hours

We’ve partnered with co-founders of a stealth mode Mental-Health Tech Start-up to hire a Lead Full Stack Developer. You’ll build an MVP, prove the concept and help achieve seed round funding. 

As the Lead Full Stack Developer, you will collaborate with the co-founders to turn the business vision into a technical project roadmap. You’ll build phases of prototypes to show the product’s viability. You will make choices with development language, technical architecture and web-solutions. 

Experience requirements:

• 6+ years of software development experience
• Experience building web applications and web-based products 
• Good knowledge of microservices architecture and systems integration 
• Good knowledge of database tools and data structures 
• Good knowledge of modern development processes

Other requirements:

• Outstanding critical thinking & problem-solving skills 
• Excellent communication and English language skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills 
• Good mentoring skills 
• Must have a passion for positive mental health 
• Must be available to start in February or March 

We are looking for a software engineer with an entrepreneurial mindset. You’ll build products and services to solve mental health challenges to have happier lives. 

This is a remote freelance contract opportunity. There is an option to become a permanent employee. Equity will be offered the seed investment round. 

Please send your CV and a brief introduction to Danny Stewart at RedSofa Berlin (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

Key Words: Software Developer, Software Engineer, JavaScript, Node, React, Python, API, Lead Developer, Agile, Highly Scalable, Backend Developer. 

PHP Developer

Global eCommerce MarketPlace
Berlin-Based Tech Team

€50,000 to €70,000 + Benefits
Remote working & flexible hours

We’re hiring a PHP Developer to join an innovation tech team building a greenfield global marketplace distributing a variety of wine, spirits and similar lifestyle products. The company has received significant investment to scale-up, improve the tech, build major new product features and enter into new geographical markets.

As the PHP Developer, you’ll join a multi-disciplined team of software engineers, designers and QA’s. You’ll work in modern Agile, development processes to build a microservices architecture that will be able to handle millions of orders on daily basis.

Role requirements:

• More than 4 years of PHP Development commercial experience
• Experience with creating large web-products (e-commerce or scalable applications)
• Any experience with modern PHP frameworks is beneficial (Magento, Laravel, Zend, Symfony etc)
• Any experience with JavaScript technologies is beneficial
• Good communication skills
• Must have a passion to innovate and learn new tech tools
• Keen to share knowledge and collaborate with colleagues
• Must be based in Berlin to visit the office from time to time
• Must have full working rights for Germany.

The culture of the company is relaxed, friendly, professional and ambitious. It is an international company with a welcoming atmosphere. The tech team has autonomy and can be flexible with hours so long as the goals are achieved. They have loads of perks, events and social-driven experiences for the teams.

Please get in touch with Danny Stewart for more info (DStewart@redsofaberlin.com)

Senior Full Stack Developer (JavaScript, Python)

NGO Tech & Data Analytics Platform

Berlin, Germany

€65,000 to €75,000 Annual Salary

Remote Working Role (Berlin-based HQ)

We’re hiring a Senior Full Stack Developer to join an NGO Tech & Data Analytics platform who provide services to enable non-governmental organisations to create a positive impact, to achieve their mission and ethical purpose. 

As the Senior Full Stack Developer (JavaScript & Python) you will be joining a team of 15 people to build new features, build new frontend designs and migrate existing applications to the latest version of JavaScript frameworks. This technology offers project management features, data analytics, reporting and fund management tools. 

We’re looking for someone with the following:

• Senior software development experience (more than 4 years of commercial experience)
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript (and JavaScript frameworks: Angular, React or Vue)
• Good knowledge professional of Python 
• A mission-driven mindset with the ambition to build impactful tools
• Good communication skills; a collaborator, team player, someone who wants to share knowledge 
• Full Rights to work in Germany (EU / WorkPermit/VISA)
• Based in Berlin (or relocating to Berlin within EU)

This is a tech start-up that has grown during the pandemic because it helps NGO’s provide remote services to causes in underdeveloped countries, which has been essential to ensure projects continue with unprecedented circumstances. It’s an excellent opportunity to work in a company that offers satisfaction from building something that genuinely helps people in need. 

Please get in touch with Danny Stewart at RedSofa Berlin for full info (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

Team Lead – Frontend (React)

Are you a passionate engineer and excited about video? Do you want to be part of an ambitious and growing company? This position is for a Berlin based videotech company looking for someone to lead, grow and mentor a frontend development team.

Super collaborative environment allowing you to express your own ideas, a culture with a big emphasis on trust and openness.

As Team Lead you will be splitting your time 50/50 hands on/off, so for someone who still wants to be close to the code, this is ideal.

Working closely with Agile Coaches, DevOps & Product people you’ll be leading a team responsible for building new features as well as developing current ones.

You:

• Within this engineering culture, you will be able to express your own ideas freely to help impact and improve the team as well as the products.
• People experience – Solid people management and leadership skills are needed in the role as is a passion for mentoring others.
• Tech – Hands on experience with modern frontend technologies (React, JavaScript and Typescript), redux and Restful API knowledge.

Very good salaries on offer and great benefits with a top work life balance, remote friendly and with work from home options. Top modern office, super river location in Berlin.

aforeman@redsofaberlin.com

Engineering Lead – DevOps

You will be joining a top company in Berlin with a market leading and global product that has a real focus on people.

You’ll be an integral part of the Devops and SRE team where you will be leading a team of 6 in designing and developing systems in the cloud infrastructure. Here there is a focus on automation, performance, scalability and availability.

This position will be cultivating a DevOps mindset and you need a passion for creating tools for other engineers. The technologies here tend to be Kotlin, Golang and Swift, but similar tech is not a problem.

What will you need to bring to this role?

• Multiple years experience in DevOps/SRE environments & with a recent leadership role
• You will of course work very closely together with other engineering teams, so you need to be a people first first person with excellent technical skills.
• Your cross functional team will consist of 6+ people made up of SRE, DevOps and Backend Engineers.
• People mentoring and managing is a big part of this role as well as being passionate about creating and maintaining a platform of reliable tools and services for the engineering function.
• Tech – AWS, automation, microservices, kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

The good to know – Great salary, excellent benefits and a warm, collaborative and welcoming environment. This is a fun, spirited workplace who enjoy working there, and one that supports your own development. Big on the engineering community.

We are also looking at Senior Dev Ops Engineers, so if you don’t feel you quite meet the criteria, you might want to be considered for one of these positions also.

aforeman@redsofaberlin.com to apply

Team Lead Software Engineer 

(React, JavaScript)

Video Streaming & On-Demand Tech Platform 

(Tech start-up with multi-million investment round)

Berlin, Germany

(Working-from-home based with office-based meetings)

€90,000 to €110,000 Annual Salary

We’re hiring a Team Lead Software Engineer with React & JavaScript specialist experience to join a growing tech company, which builds software handling extremely high volumes of video; video streaming, live-streaming, hosting and content management systems.

As the Team Lead Software Engineer, you leading an international team of people supporting multicultural values, promoting diversity and inclusion. You’ll collaborate with Product Owners, Agile Coaches and DevOps to create new features on the various video streaming products. You’ll be working closely with the C-level (CTO) to influence the long term tech strategy and business vision. 

We’re looking for someone with:

• More than 3 years of management experience, as a leader working with multidisciplinary tech teams
• Great communication skills and relationship management skills
• Good coaching attributes for technical and non-technical matters (good at empowering colleagues)
• More than 6 years of software development experience 
• Extremely knowledgeable with JavaScript and Typescript
• Good knowledge of React 16
• Excellent English language skills

This career opportunity will suit someone who is looking for a role where they can make an impact; there’s scope to influence the vision, strategy and also help to improve the skills of the people working within their team. The company values mental health and work-life-balance, which reflects in the positive working culture and friendly international cultural environment. 

Please get in touch with Danny Stewart at Redsofa Berlin for the next steps (DStewart@RedsofaBerlin.com)

Mid-Level Frontend Developer (React, JavaScript)

FinTech Platform Tech Startup  

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

Office in Berlin, Germany

Mostly Working From Home/Remote

€50,00 to €65,000 Annual Salary (depending on experience)

We’re hiring a Frontend Developer (React, JavaScript) 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:

• 3 to 8 years of commercial Frontend Development experience 
• React or other JavaScript language skills with a willingness to transfer to React
• HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS experience
• Test-Driven Development or similar testing culture to software development 
• 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 already generating revenue already, meaning it’s safe, a 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 Danny Stewart at Redsofa Berlin for the next steps (DStewart@RedsofaBerlin.com)

Python Engineering Manager (Development Manager)

eMarketPlace Platform (Tech Company)

Berlin, Germany
(Office & Remote Working Flexibility)

€90,000 to €110,000 + Benefits Package

We’re hiring a Software Engineering Manager to join a multinational marketplace technology company building a cutting edge platform connecting thousands of suppliers to many millions of customers in the EU and USA.

As the Software Engineering Manager, you help influence the growth of a brand new Berlin-based tech hub whilst collaborating with tech & product colleagues in other EU countries. You will use the latest versions of various technologies to build high-performance, highly scalable micro-services applications.

Role requirements:

• More than 2years of management experience working with multidisciplined engineering teams
• More than 8 years of software development experience with Python, C++, Java, PHP, Ruby, GOlang or similar backend language.
• Experience of working within Extreme Programming processes (AGILE, TDD, BDD, DDD).
• Previous experience of building highly scalable microservices applications.
• Must be happy to use Python amongst other development languages.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Restful API’s, ElasticSearch, Nginx is beneficial.

This role will eventually be split between working in the Berlin shared high spec workspace and working from home/remote. The plan is to grow a tech hub in Berlin and have a high spec office when appropriate.

This is a role for people who aspire to work in a high-performance company and who understand the importance of team-work collaboration and sharing knowledge to reach high-performance goals.

For more information please contact Danny Stewart at RedSofa Berlin (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com).

Please note: at this stage in the company’s expansion into Berlin, candidates must have full working rights for Germany and EU. In the future, candidates with work permits will be considered. 

Senior Python Engineer (Distributed Systems)

eMarketPlace Platform (Tech Company)

Berlin, Germany 

(Office & Remote Working Flexibility)

€60,000 to €90,000 + Benefits Package

We’re hiring Senior Python Engineer(s) to join a multinational marketplace technology company building a cutting edge platform connecting thousands of suppliers to many millions of customers in the EU and USA.

As the Senior Python Engineer, you have the opportunity to influence the growth of a brand new Berlin-based tech hub whilst collaborating with tech & product colleagues in other EU countries. You will use the latest versions of various technologies to build high-performance, highly scalable micro-services applications.

Role requirements:

• 4 to 8 years of software development experience with Python, C++, Java, PHP, Ruby, GOlang or similar backend language.
• Experience of working within Extreme Programming processes (AGILE, TDD, BDD, DDD).
• Previous experience of building highly scalable microservices applications.
• Must be happy to use Python amongst other development languages.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Restful API’s, ElasticSearch, Nginx is beneficial.

This role will eventually be split between working in the Berlin shared high spec workspace and working from home/remote. The plan is to grow a tech hub in Berlin and have a high spec office when appropriate.

This is a role for people who aspire to work in a high-performance company and who understand the importance of team-work collaboration and sharing knowledge to reach high-performance goals.

For more information please contact Danny Stewart at RedSofa Berlin (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com).

Please note: at this stage in the company’s expansion into Berlin, candidates must have full working rights for Germany and EU. In the future, candidates with work permits will be considered. 

Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails)

FinTech Platform Tech Startup  

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

Office in Berlin, Germany

Mostly Working From Home/Remote

€50,000 to €70,000 Annual Salary (depending on experience)

We’re hiring a 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:

• 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 Danny Stewart at Redsofa Berlin for the next steps (DStewart@RedsofaBerlin.com)