About the Opportunity
Join Contentful as a Full Stack Software Engineer and play a vital role in enhancing and supporting our Platform Insights Team, enabling impactful extensibility for both internal and external developers. Your work will enable our customers to understand and better use Contentful.
Become a part of the innovative team at Contentful, where we empower thousands of customers to manage content at scale. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions, optimizing processes, and improving scalability while balancing strategic thinking with effective problem-solving.
What to expect?
- Collaborate and Innovate: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build best-in-class platform insights for our customers.
- Full Stack Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable frontend and backend features using TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
- Holistic Thinking: Consider components and systems while considering a holistic user experience.
- Rapid Problem-Solving: Quickly fix bugs and solve problems to enhance customer satisfaction.
- Data-Driven Development: Utilize analytics to inform product decisions and improve features.
- Continuous Improvement: Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving our development processes.
- Work closely with our data department in order to surface useful information to our customers.
What you need to be successful?
- Proven Experience: Demonstrable experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer in a product development environment.
- Proven experience in building APIs and services that efficiently handle large volumes of traffic.
- Technical Proficiency: Strong skills in TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Interested in clean code practices and familiarity with enterprise architectural design patterns.
- Containerization and Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Cloud Services Familiarity: Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Problem-Solving Skills: Natural problem-solver who brings forward ideas leading to practical solutions and product growth.
- Collaborative Mindset: Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Adaptability: Ability to organize and prioritize competing workloads in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency in using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Circle CI) and maintaining automated tests with tools like Jest or Mocha.
- Proactive approach with a high sense of ownership.
- Great communication skills in English, especially when explaining complex technical concepts.
- Experience with serverless architectures and lower-level language such as Rust or Go are a plus
What's in it for you?
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days
- Time off to care for and focus on your growing family
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
- A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
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Who are we?
Contentful is the intelligent composable content platform that unlocks all of an organization’s digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences, making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform, Contentful Studio, and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI, empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration, speed, and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands, regions, and channels for organizations around the world, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500. Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver and distributed around the world.
Everyone is welcome here!
“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!
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