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.

Technical Consultant (Senior or Advanced)

Aperto – IBM iX 

Berlin-based office. Work-from-home and/or in-office.

Salary Budget (Plus perks & benefits package):

• Lead level: €85k
• Senior level: €75k
• Advanced level: €65k

We are hiring a Technical Consultant to join our growing digital product development studio in Berlin. Aperto / IBM iX is an independent subsidiary of IBM. 

We create digital products and services for several major business industries, our main organisation structure is divided into mobility, health, insurance, government, eCommerce, salesforce and our innovation garage too. 

The role will have three key components:

1. Pre-sales related responsibilities, including researching new technologies to discuss with clients.
2. Consulting phases; requirements gathering, platform research and client environment analysis.
3. Implementation. Delivering the solution and assisting clients when called upon. 

We’re looking for:

• Experience from a similar agency or consultancy, client-facing type of background. 
• Business analyst or research and analytics skills. 
• Requirement gathering and business information technology experience. 
• A breadth of experience with modern platforms and technologies (i.e. Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, Cloud tech etc)
• A basic understanding of solutions architecture / technical architecture. 
• Must be proficient in German and English languages. 

The role will suit a candidate who enjoys solving complex problems; being able to think fast and communicate tech ideas to non-tech people. The company culture is friendly & welcoming to all people of diverse backgrounds with inclusivity practices that are second-nature with our colleagues. Mindfulness protocols are also in place to encourage a healthy work-life balance.  

The career development plan encourages continuous learning and offers career pathways in consultancy, strategy, solutions architecture, people leadership and more. As an employee of Aperto IBM iX, you will have access to the huge suite of learning tools and research resources from the IBM technology group. 

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

The interview process includes two stages and an additional pre-interview screening call. 

Senior PHP Developer (Laravel, MVC, REST API’s, AWS)

Sustainability Technology Product Company

Berlin, Germany (Working from home & Office available)

€60k to €70k Annual Salary + Benefits

We’re looking to hire a Senior PHP Developer for a mission-driven tech start-up, who’s sustainability technology platform enables organisations to reduce their carbon emissions and adopt environmentally positive practices. 

You’ll help with the highly scalable technical architecture and development of a core carbon emissions product, whilst working in multi-disciplinary teams. 

The tech stack: PHP, Laravel, MVC, REST API’s, AWS, Terraform, Elastic Beanstalk & more. 

We’re seeking someone with:

• More than 7 years of commercial PHP software development experience.
• Experience with the tech stack mentioned above. 
• A passion to build useful products to contribute to a greener future. 
• Experience from a software product development background. 

This opportunity is ideal for a software engineer that likes to build meaningful technology products, to help reverse the carbon footprint and work with evolving technologies. The company has a flexible culture. The people are positive, passionate and mission-driven. 

Get in contact with Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin to apply/for more information (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

PHP Developer (Laravel, MVC, REST API’s, AWS)

Sustainability Technology Product Company

Berlin, Germany (Working from home & Office available)

€50k to €60k Annual Salary + Benefits

We’re looking to hire a Mid-level PHP Developer for a mission-driven tech start-up, who’s sustainability technology platform enables organisations to reduce their carbon emissions and adopt environmentally positive practices. 

You’ll help develop a highly scalable core carbon emissions product, whilst working in multi-disciplinary teams. 

The tech stack: PHP, Laravel, MVC, REST API’s, AWS, Terraform, Elastic Beanstalk & more. 

We’re seeking someone with:

• More than 4-years of commercial PHP software development experience.
• Experience with the tech stack mentioned above. 
• A passion to build useful products to contribute to a greener future. 
• Experience from a software product development background. 

This PHP Developer opportunity is ideal for a software engineer that likes to build meaningful technology products, to help reverse the carbon footprint and work with evolving technologies. The company has a flexible culture. The people are positive, passionate and mission-driven. 

Get in contact with Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin to apply/for more information (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

Senior Go (GOlang) Back End Developer 

(Go, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes)

Educational Technology Start-up 

(Founded in 2017)

Berlin, Germany

(Office & Working from home)

€65k 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 Danny Stewart at Red Sofa Berlin to apply/for more information (DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com)

A combination of the founders entrepreneurial mindset & their negative experiences labouring in construction whilst studying, this product leverages technology & design to  enable reliable, accessible & sustainable construction for its users. 

The user journey of employing professionals to assist with construction tasks of any size, be it fitting a sink…or extending a house is a needlessly long & complex one. 

This product helps educate customers on their desired projects, informing them on what services and materials they need, and how to obtain them. The platform also connects them with trusted tradespeople who are regularly assessed (by customers) on their price and performance, therefore facilitating data driven decisions on the best people to choose for each job.  

They also have a cloud based web app for project management – with all invoices and documentation passing through this, helping boost productivity & transparency, keeping the customers involved & informed throughout the projects lifecycle.

With 2,500 + completed projects under their belt and a healthy investment round behind them they are now seeking a Senior Product Designer to work alongside the recently appointed PM.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a designer eager to take ownership of an end to end  process and stamp their mark on a product, heavily influencing the product’s design and the company’s design culture.

For this they are seeking an enthusiastic Product Designer of 3+ years experience with a portfolio which showcases a strong understanding of the end to end product design process. Given the research aspects they are ideally looking for designers fluent in German, however they will entertain enthusiastic designers who have a B2 Level.

Lead iOS Developer

Urgent Freelance Contract: 1-year minimum project.

We’re hiring a Lead iOS Developer for a Digital Agency in Berlin working on a huge German Insurance Client project. You’ll work within multi-disciplinary product teams in an Agile methodology.

Budget: €700-€1,000 per day depending on experience.

Start date: Monday 9th August.

Berlin-based office (working-from-home).

Requirements:

• More than 8 years of commercial mobile development experience.
• Must have Enterprise Project Experience.
• German and English language skills are essential.
• Tech stack: iOS / Architektur / Clean Architecture / MVVM / Coordinator Pattern / Technologien / Swift / PromiseKit / Combine (nice to have) / Cocoapods / Allgemein / Unit Testing / OAuth2 / OIDC / AuthCode Flow

2 stage process:

1. 20-minute screening call with Danny Stewart (Tech Recruiter)
2. 2-hour interview with Architects and Lead Developers.

Additional info: Candidates must be located in Berlin or Hamburg. Must have full-working rights for Germany.

Please send your CV and intro to Danny Stewart at DStewart@RedSofaBerlin.com. Please include:

• Your availability to receive a telephone screening call.
• Your availability to start a new contract.
• Your desired charge rate.
• Your German language skills level (basic/good/professional/fluent etc).