RedSofa Berlin bietet einen erstklassigen Rekrutierungsservice für Rollen in der Digital-, Tech- und Kreativ-Branche mit einer sehr einfachen Herangehensweise: hilfsbereit, persönlich und ehrlich. Unsere Kunden und Kandidaten vertrauen darauf, stets mit Integrität und Respekt partnerschaftlich und vor allem aufrichtig beraten zu werden. Wir sind interessiert und hören zu, denn was unserem Gegenüber wichtig ist, ist auch wichtig für uns. Wir stellen engagiert und leidenschaftlich Menschen in den Mittelpunkt.

Wir suchen derzeit eine/n (Senior) PR Account Manager/ Communication Manager (m/w/d) 

Ort: Agentur für Markenkommunikation/ Berlin?

Gehalt: 40-57K

Die Rolle: Für diese tolle Agentur mit spannenden (Groß-/ Industrie-) Kunden (u.a. Beauty, Food&Beverage, Consumer Electronics, Digital) suche ich Midlevel bis Senior Account Manager. Die Agentur ist bei ihren Kunden meist sehr früh in die gesamte Kommunikationsstrategie eingebunden und bedient ganzheitlich die Klaviatur moderner Markenkommunikation – von Public Relations über Influencer Marketing, Content Marketing, Social Media Handling und Digital Paid Kampagnen End-to-End.
Die Agentur ist aber nicht nur inhaltlich spitze. Ein überaus nettes Team erwartet Dich und man legt sehr viel Wert auf MitarbeiterInnen -Förderung und -Entwicklung.

Voraussetzungen:

• Gutes Gespür für Trends und ausgeprägtes Interesse für Lifestylethemen
• mehrjährige PR- und Agenturerfahrung
• mehrjährige Erfahrung in der Bearbeitung von (Kunden-)Briefings,
• Reportings und strategischen Kommunikationskonzepten
• versiert in der Konzeption, Steuerung und Durchführung von innovativen PR/ Kommunikationskampagnen -und Maßnahmen
• Führungserfahrung
• Social Media- und Storytelling Erfahrung
• Budgethandling / Controlling
• überzeugnedes Auftreten, exzellente Kommunikationsfähigkeit
• Kontakte in die Medien-/Blogger-/Influencerszene
• Deutsch auf muttersprachlichem Niveau, sehr gute Englischkenntnisse
• Abschluss in einem medienwissenschaftlichen und/oder journalistischen Fachbereich

Benefits:

• Eigenverantwortung, Gestaltungs- und Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten in einer etablierten Agentur
• Zusammenarbeit mit großen Marken
• Coachings, Weiterbildungsprogramm
• regelmäßige Entwicklungsgespräche
• z.T. Remote Work/ flexible Arbeitszeiten möglich

  Bei Interesse kontaktiere Martina von RedSofa Berlin mwinkler@redsofaberlin.com

Tech Lead – Full Stack
(Node.JS, Next.JS, Full-Stack, JavaScript, AWS, Media Streaming Architecture, Micro-services)

Stealth Mode Tech Start-up: Media Streaming Platform

Berlin-based Office, with remote working.
€80k-€100k (depending on experience) + Benefits 

We’re hiring a Tech Lead to join a Video & Media Streaming Tech Start-up (Tech Unicorn Subsidiary). The brand new product is in ‘stealth mode’ and we can release the full information to you following a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). 

As Tech Lead, you’ll guide the technical development of the subscription-based streaming platform. You will lead an external 5 developers team and support development, deployment, operations and the continuous improvement of the system. You have the chance to shape the tech stack of a freshly built, cloud-native and best-practice-oriented architecture. As the heart of the platform, the tech department has a strong impact on product decisions and defines the holistic architecture.

Tech Info;

The platform will have a microservices-driven architecture, built on AWS, using Node.JS for the backend. You’ll work with Fastify web service, which will expose a REST API. A Next.js application, which will be responsible for rendering the HTML content for the users. No legacy systems and Agile DevOps processes and continuous delivery workflows. 

Responsibilities;

You’ll be the lead software engineer, technical mentor and manager. You’ll develop the architectural roadmap for the holistic product. You’ll collaborate with the product owner to support prioritization, assist with conception definition and influence the team goals. You will own the operations of the platforms to ensure stability and uptime. You will also help build up an own team in the future. 

Candidate Requirements;

• More than 5-years of commercial software development experience.
• A leadership mentality, leading by example, encouraging colleagues to be brave and share their ideas. 
• Proven track record of building large-scale, highly available, high quality distributed systems and software products.
• Knowledge of media container formats, encoding schemas, streaming protocols
• Understanding of various stacks such as open source stack, and cloud service offerings from providers (AWS)
• Significant experience with Responsive Web Design, HTML5 and CSS3
• Awesome knowledge of frontend technical architectures and modern javascript frameworks. 
• Expert knowledge of Node.js and Next.js (experience with fastify is beneficial)
• Excellent communication skills; English language is essential, German language is nice-to-have.
• Must be based in Germany, preferably in Berlin. 

This is an outstanding opportunity to create a media & video streaming platform as a greenfield project start-up environment with the backing of a unicorn-like successful parent tech company. It’s the type of opportunity that offers intellectually challenging tasks with technology, within a fast-moving industry and shaping the culture of a team & company as it grows. 

If you have the technical experience, passion to create and experience from relevant industries, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply or send a CV to Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

Sustainability Technology Platform 

(Green-Tech Start-up)

Data Engineer

(Data Science, Python, Scripting)

Berlin-based Office, Germany

(Remote working with office-based meetings)

Annual Salary: €55,000 to €65,000

We’re hiring a Data Engineer to join a Sustainability Technology Company. The green-tech startup has been creating a revolutionary data-driven & machine learning technology, which helps prestigious brand name client measure, reduce and offset their business carbon footprint whilst creating an employee culture of sustainability. 

As the Data Engineer, you’ll contribute to architecting and building a flexible database system, which will be vital in collecting, sorting and providing analytical tools for vast carbon emission type datasets. Your role will include research and discovery of new technologies, working with production API’s and 3rd party integration tools with client data & software. 

You’ll collaborate with backend engineers, frontend engineers, sustainability experts, product managers and various other stakeholders. You’ll also work closely with the carbon accounting team to develop a generalised framework for combining business and scientific data to perform complex calculations

Role requirements:

• PhD, MSc or BSc in Computer Science, Maths, Physics (or similar discipline)
• Expert Research Skills 
• Python Development Experience (or similar software language)
• Previous Experience with Big-Data/Large Data Sets
• API Data & Integration Experience 
• Professional English Language Communication Skills 

The opportunity with this job is to contribute to a more sustainable future whilst working with the latest technologies and joining a team of like-minded people, motivated to make tools to positively change the world. 

If you’re mission-driven and want to use your career experience to make an impact, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Please contact Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin to apply (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

Sustainability Technology Platform 

(Green-Tech Start-up)

Senior Frontend Engineer

(Vue, JavaScript, Frontend Architecture)

Berlin-based Office, Germany

(Remote working with office-based meetings)

Annual Salary: €70,000 to €80,000

We’re hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to join a Sustainability Technology Company. The green-tech startup has been creating a revolutionary data-driven & machine learning technology, which helps prestigious brand name client measure, reduce and offset their business carbon footprint whilst creating an employee culture of sustainability. 

As the Senior Frontend Engineer, you’ll have senior and leaderships responsibilities with front-end technical architectural decisions and manage the implementation of the product using component-based web frameworks (VueJS or ReactJs). You’ll collaborate with the Data Science team and work with large data-sets to create data visualisation features with user-experience and efficient performance in-mind. 

Role requirements:

• Expert JavaScript Development Skills (VueJS or ReactJS)
• Expert knowledge of Single-Page-Applications
• Frontend Technical Architecture Experience
• Data Visualisation Experience 
• Agile Experience within Multi-Disciplined Teams
• Passionate about Reducing Carbon Emissions
• Professional English Language Communication Skills 

The opportunity with this job is to contribute to a more sustainable future whilst working with the latest technologies and joining a team of like-minded people, motivated to make tools to positively change the world. 

If you’re mission-driven and want to use your career experience to make an impact, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Please contact Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin to apply (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

Senior Frontend Developer (React + Redux)

SaaS Platform – Scalable Tech Start-up 

Budget: €75,000 to €90,000 Annual Salary
Benefits: Health Care + Equity Options + Pension
Flexibility: Berlin-based Office with Remote Working / Work From Home

Hello. We’re hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to join a SaaS Platform Scalable Tech Start-up, which helps people find employment and connects employers with resources to hire people. 

As the Senior Frontend Engineer, you will be invest time with R&D with new tech tools, researching highly scalable technologies and designing the technical architecture with the best tool for each task. 

You’ll work in product-focused teams with ownership and autonomy with greenfield projects to create new, useful features. You will work in Scrum/Kanban workflows with talented professionals, collaborating to solve real problems.  

Ideal candidate requirements:

• 5+ years of commercial experience as a software engineer
• Experience building highly scalable SaaS applications
• Ability to scope large, abstract problems to small, concrete tasks
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with a culturally diverse team
• Recent commercial experience TypeScript, React.js, Redux, GraphQL, Gcloud, Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience with GraphQL or ElasticSearch 
• A team player with experience working in multi-disciplined tech/product teams
• Based in Berlin or relocating to Berlin

This opportunity will suit a Senior Frontend Engineer who likes to learn new skills and wants to work with cutting edge technologies, who has a breadth of commercial skills and technical experience. 

The culture is professional, inclusive, relaxed and collaborative. This opportunity is to join a scaling tech start-up with international clients, including world-renowned brands, with room to influence tech decisions and shape the products. 

Please contact Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin to apply (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

Senior Backend Developer (NodeJS, GOlang, Java, Elixir, Typescript)

SaaS Platform – Scalable Tech Start-up

Budget: €75,000 to €90,000 Annual Salary
Benefits: Health Care + Equity Options + Pension
Flexibility: Berlin-based Remote Working / Work From Home

Hello. We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join a SaaS Platform Scalable Tech Start-up, which helps people find employment and connects employers with resources to hire people. 

As the Senior Backend Engineer, you will be invest time with R&D with new tech tools, researching highly scalable technologies and designing the technical architecture with the best tool for each task.

You’ll work in product-focused teams with ownership and autonomy with greenfield projects to create new, useful features. You will work in Scrum/Kanban workflows with talented professionals, collaborating to solve real problems.  

Ideal candidate requirements:

• 5+ years of commercial experience as a software engineer
• Experience building highly scalable SaaS applications
• Ability to scope large, abstract problems to small, concrete tasks
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with a culturally diverse team
• Recent commercial experience with NodeJS, TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust and/or Elixir
• Asynchronous, Microservices experience (Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Redis Queue)
• Experience with GraphQL or ElasticSearch 
• A team player with experience working in multi-disciplined tech/product teams
• Based in Berlin or relocating to Berlin

This opportunity will suit a Senior Backend Engineer who likes to learn new skills and wants to work with cutting edge technologies, who has a breadth of commercial skills and technical experience.

The culture is professional, inclusive, relaxed and collaborative. This opportunity is to join a scaling tech start-up with international clients, including world-renowned brands, with room to influence tech decisions and shape the products. 

Please contact Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin to apply (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

Senior Typescript Software Engineer
(Node.js, JavaScript, React, Microservices, Full-Stack)

Grocery Delivery Mobile App
Hyper-growth Tech Scale-up with more than $100million Investment 

Berlin HQ Office; remote working flexibility with office-based meetings
€80,000 to €120,000+ Salary (relevant to experience)
Benefits: Equity Options, Health Insurance, Remote Office Equipment & more perks

We’re hiring a Senior Typescript Software Engineer to join a unicorn-to-be tech startup, backed by heavyweight VCs, who have created a grocery delivery service for mobile users, offering thousands of grocery-style products from shop-to-doorstep within minutes. This industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. It’s a real-world, useful product, currently with hundreds of thousands of users and projection for many, many millions more users by the end of 2022. 

As the Senior Typescript Software Engineer, you will join the tech team of 18 engineers (frontend and backend developers), you’ll shape the technical roadmap, interactive product features, design & build a highly scalable microservices architecture and also be involved with growing the development product teams in the future. You’ll aim to create awesome, memorable experiences for users with a slick, intuitive UI. You’ll write code, mentor and share your ideas to influence the product. You’ll work in modern agile development processes with TDD/BDD protocols. 

Desirable Candidate Requirements

• More than 7-years of commercial experience as a software engineer
• Significant experience as a Full-Stack Developer with strong Front End Development skills
• More than 5-years of JavaScript experience
• Expert knowledge of React.js or ReactNative
• Experience developing web and mobile applications
• Expert knowledge of Node.JS with Typescript
• Additional knowledge of any Node.JS frameworks i.e. Express.js or Koa.js (beneficial)
• Additional knowledge of JavaScript frameworks i.e. Angular and/or Vue.js (beneficial)
• Expert knowledge of Serverless and Microservices architectures
• Firebase experience is beneficial
• Professional level skills with CI/CD and Agile development processes
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience 
• Knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL), 
• Knowledge of web servers (e.g. Apache/Nginx)
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Experience from a rapid-growth or hyper-growth tech start-up is beneficial
• Computer Science (or similar) degree education is a plus

This rare opportunity is to join a unicorn-to-be tech brand in its relative infancy, shaping the company and putting your stamp on it, a chance to build a truly impressive product & organisation. You’ll be surrounded by like-minded passionate technologists, creators and visionaries with ambition and bravery to create the future, and not wait for it to happen. 

For more information or to apply, please send your CV to Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

Senior Frontend Web Developer

(HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React) 

Aperto, IBM iX – Digital Product Agency subsidiary of IBM

Berlin Office HQ / Remote Working in Germany

€50k-€70k (Depending on experience) + Benefits

We’re hiring a Senior Frontend Web Developer to create cool interactive experiences and real-world useful digital products for a variety of big brand multinational clients and German institutions. 

This opportunity offers the best bits of the agency environment; fast-paced, variation in projects and exciting culture, with the qualities of product companies; interesting & useful tech products with technical depth and challenge complexity. 

As the Senior Frontend Web Developer, you will work in multi-disciplined product teams in agile development processes. You’ll be involved with the ideas for new clients and adding cutting-edge features to existing services too. You’ll create flexible front-end architectures, optimization of the front end in terms of performance, usability, and ensuring browser compatibility.

Candidate requirements:

• More than 5-years of commercial experience as a Frontend Developer.
• Expert knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
• Good knowledge of React, Angular or Vue.js.
• An interest in working with TypeScript, ES6, NodeJS + NPM.
• English language skills are essential, German is nice to have. 
• Candidates must be based in Germany, preferably Berlin. 
• Experience within a digital agency (or similar environment) is beneficial.

The Berlin office has traditionally been used for a monthly company-wide get-together, a chance for colleagues to get to know each other, celebrate successes within the various professions and enjoy the free bar. It’s part of the company culture to belong to the community, to feel valued, and contribute to the overall success. 

As part of the IBM group of companies, employees have access to a world-class learning and development scheme, with technology resources, courses, and programs for structured professional development. 

To apply, please include your CV and send to Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

FullStack Developer (React & Node)

Movie Streaming App – Technology Company (VOD) 

Berlin, Germany

€80,000 to €100,000 (Negotiable)

We’re hiring a Full Stack Developer (React.js, Node.js) to join a Movie Streaming Technology Company. The Video-On-Demand platform hosts a wide range of content from big-budget Hollywood films, international, indie & cult movies and everything in-between.

As the Full Stack Developer, you’ll work in multi-disciplined agile product development teams collaborating of backend & front developers, mobile developers, PM’s, UI & UX Designers and QA engineers. As you’d probably imagine with movie streaming, performance, latency, scalability and code-quality standards are all extremely important, which is reflected in the interesting technical challenges and day-to-day working processes.

Role requirements:

• Awesome JavaScript skills with React.js and Node.js (Essential)
• 6+ years of commercial experience with JavaScript and/or HTML5, CSS3, PHP (Essential)
• Experience with modern development processes i.e. TDD, BDD, Agile/Scrum, CI etc (Essential)
• Experience within a Product Company / Tech Startup (Beneficial)
• Any experience with streaming technologies with audio or film or live streaming (Beneficial)
• Experience with Microservices architectures, Docker, Kubernetes and other modern tools (Beneficial)
• Passion for movies or TV (Beneficial)
• Collaborative personality with good communication skils (Beneficial)

The Video-On-Demand (VOD) platform is used by millions of people as direct customers to their platform, but the company is also creating white label version of the products for international film production companies, which is awesome for people who like to be involved with technical decision making and who like to see their impact.

The culture is relaxed, professional and everyone has an interest in film/movies. The people here love the industry they work in and it’s reflected in the positive, collaborative & friendly atmosphere.

Please contact Danny Stewart at Redsofa Berlin for more info or to apply. Thanks.

(React.js, Node.js, JavaScript, PHP, FullStack Developer, Software Engineer, Video-On-Demand, VOD, Movies, Streaming)

Backend Developer (Python)

Renewable Technology Platform: Tech Start-up/Scale-up

Office based in Berlin, Germany (remote-friendly working culture)

Salary Budget: €40k-€60k (relevant to experience)

We’re hiring a Backend Developer (Python) to join a Renewable Technology Platform, a marketplace for refurbished devices, making a positive impact on the carbon footprint by reducing waste and upcycling tech hardware. 

As the Backend Developer (Python), you’ll work on highly scalable microservice architecture distributed systems, in a Kanban/Scrum Agile TDD/BDD/SOLID environment and within autonomous product teams of multi-disciplined tech professionals.

Candidate requirements:

• Commercial software engineering experience with Python.
• Interest in the tech stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, RestFul API, Python, VueJs, Nuxt, Algolia, Datadog, Spinnaker, SQS, ElasticSearch, Nginx, UWSGI.
• Must be Berlin-based.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• A team player mindset

The company is already generating revenue and has also raised more than €100million in investment rounds. This opportunity is to work on a product that contributes to a greener future by recycling electronic waste, whilst working in an evolving, growing business with an exciting array of technical challenges to learn from. 

Please get in touch and include your CV, Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)