Staff Engineer

meinUnterricht

BESCHREIBUNG Do you love untangling messy systems, shipping real improvements, and setting a higher engineering bar? Join meinUnterricht, Germany's leading platform for teachers, as a Staff Engineer.  You'll own the architecture of the core systems that run our business and decide how a decade of accumulated complexity gets simplified. We want a hands-on architect who questions the status quo and pushes our AI-first engineering even further. Our Tech Stack We believe in transparency. You will be working across both legacy and modern systems, with a strong mandate to help us consolidate and modernize over time. Where we are going (the new stack): Monorepo architecture, APIs built with Hono, Prisma for DB migrations, Vitest, PostgreSQL, Stripe, and AWS CDK for infrastructure. What we currently have: React, Redux, Node.js (Hapi), MongoDB (Mongoose), MySQL, Zuora, and AWS (EC2, ECS, CloudFront). DEINE AUFGABEN * Drive System Architecture: Lead the technical direction for our core systems, including subscription infrastructure, cloud foundations, shared backend services, database architecture, and data pipelines. * Modernize the Foundation: Identify what should be kept, replaced, merged, or removed across our legacy systems, and turn that into a pragmatic target architecture with an execution path. * Technical Ownership: You stay deep in the code on the highest-impact problems. You make the architecture decisions and the hard technical tradeoffs, and you set the bar others build to. * Raise the Bar with AI: Model an AI-first engineering culture by using tools like Claude Code, Codex, or similar across coding, migrations, infrastructure, and workflow automation. DEIN PROFIL * Broad Systems Depth: Strong backend (fluency in TypeScript/Node.js) and infrastructure experience across areas like databases, cloud services, queues, caching, networking, integrations, or pipelines. Not just one narrow specialty. * Migration Experience: You have led or played a major role in moving production systems from old to new, and you understand the messy middle: dual-running, rollout strategy, data integrity, and rollback planning. * Product Sense: You think beyond the system to the user and the business. You balance long-term architecture against the value that needs to ship now. * Cloud & Platform Experience: You're comfortable working in AWS-heavy environments and have practical experience improving infrastructure, reliability, and developer workflows. IaC experience is a big plus. * AI-Native Mindset: You actively use AI tools in real engineering work and see them as a serious force multiplier, not a gimmick. WARUM WIR? * Meaningful Product: Build infrastructure behind a platform that helps tens of thousands of teachers prepare better lessons, faster. * Real Ownership: You'll own a critical systems domain with direct impact on revenue, product velocity, and the technical future of the company. * AI-First Engineering Culture: We invest heavily in AI tooling (Claude Max Plan or equal) and expect engineers to use it deeply and practically in day-to-day work. * Strong Berlin Setup: Work from our office at Potsdamer Platz in a hybrid setup, combining regular in-office days for collaboration with remote work days for focused execution. * Meaningful Benefits: A device of your choice, Deutschland Ticket or Urban Sports Club, work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 10 days per year, Jobrad, and more. PROZESS * Remote coding challenge * Technical interview (video call) * System design interview (preferably on site in our offices in Berlin) * Technical leadership interview (preferably on site in our offices in Berlin)

Tide

ABOUT TIDE At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting. Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love. Tide facts: * Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs * Over 2 million members: 900,000 UK and 1,100,000 in India and growing rapidly * Over $300 million raised in funding * Over 2,800 Tideans globally * Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row, and among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026 * We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg   We are hiring across multiple locations India: Hyderabad, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru Europe: London, Serbia, Sofia, Lithuania, Berlin ABOUT THE ROLE Be at the forefront of the AI revolution, working on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of financial services. You’ll join a passionate team focused on building high-quality, scalable products with real-world impact. We’re looking for a Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI) to bridge robust backend systems with Generative AI. You’ll design the frameworks, standards, and platforms that allow AI capabilities to scale securely, reliably, and efficiently across the enterprise, going beyond feature delivery to influence long-term technical direction. As a Staff Engineer you’ll: * Build core services for Tide’s agentic platform, including APIs, workflow orchestration, and tool integration  * Integrate bought components where they accelerate delivery, and build where control, trust, and reuse matter most * Work with product, data, platform, and security teams to productionise shared AI capabilities * Design services that are reliable, secure, observable, and easy for other teams to adopt * Help shape reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflows WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: * Strong backend or platform engineering experience in production environments. * Good judgement across APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and service design. * Experience integrating internal and third-party platforms. * Comfort working in ambiguity and turning emerging needs into robust platform components. * Strong focus on quality, reliability, and developer usability. * Experience with AI infrastructure or orchestration is helpful, but not essential. * Experience in highly regulated industries (Fintech, Healthtech, etc.) where safety and compliance are core to the product is valuable, but not essential. * Design and build automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent reasoning accuracy and safety trajectories OUR TECH STACK: * Java, Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices (but we welcome people who are used to any strongly typed general purpose programming language!) * Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka to make them reliable * Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (we are heavy AWS users) * Docker, Terraform, EKS used by the Cloud team to run the platform * DataDog and Rollbar to keep it running * GitHub with Sonarcloud, Semgrep and solid testing to power the CI/CD pipelines - new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks * Angular 2+ with ngrx on Web, Flutter for the Mobile App * Fivetran/Snowflake/Looker for the BI insights and Python/Faust/Flask/Tecton + some ML libs for the automated decisioning and risk management TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or differently-abled status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members’ diverse needs and lives.  We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard.   At Tide, we thrive on diversity, embracing various backgrounds and experiences. We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Our inclusive culture is key to our success, helping us build products that meet our members' diverse needs. We are One Team, committed to transparency and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard.   Disclaimer   It has come to our attention that individuals or agencies are falsely claiming to represent Tide and are reaching out to candidates regarding job opportunities. Please be aware that: * Tide does not charge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process. * All official Tide job opportunities are listed exclusively on our Careers Page and applications should be submitted through this channel. * Communication from Tide will only come from an official @tide.co email address. * Tide does not work with agencies or recruiters without prior formal engagement, and we do not authorize third parties to make job offers on our behalf. If you are contacted by anyone misrepresenting Tide or requesting payment, please treat it as fraudulent and report it to us immediately at talent@tide.co Your safety and trust are important to us, and we are committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process.   Tide leverages AI to enhance our hiring experience. You can read more about how we use AI in our recruitment process in our AI Policy. Your personal data will be processed by Tide for recruitment purposes and in accordance with Tide's Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Parloa

ABOUT PARLOA Parloa’s mission is to make every customer conversation feel effortless for both customers and the companies serving them. As agentic AI accelerates, Parloans are shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience, one where customer support is no longer transactions, but meaningful exchanges. It is not just a vision; Parloa has powered over ONE BILLION interactions between global enterprise brands and their customers, with companies like Booking.com, HealthEquity, Allianz, SAP, BarmeniaGothaer, and TUI already deploying Parloa at scale.   Frontend engineers at Parloa primarily strengthen our central frontend platform—microfrontend architecture, Server-Driven UI library, and our shared design system—so product teams can ship agent management platform UI faster with clear ownership and fewer coordination dependencies. Some engineers are embedded in product teams for deeper, custom UI where platform patterns do not apply. ABOUT THE ROLE: * Define and drive technical strategy for the frontend platform: microfrontend architecture, Server-Driven UI library, design system, and developer experience for internal and product consumers. * Lead cross-team architecture so platform capabilities and product features integrate through clear contracts (APIs, UI boundaries, release and rollout patterns)—with enough full-stack depth (TypeScript/Node services, integration with backend teams) to own end-to-end platform outcomes, not only React surfaces. * Balance short-term velocity with long-term resilience, making smart trade-offs on complexity, cost, and scalability. * Remain hands-on on highest-leverage platform code, critical design reviews, and precedent-setting implementations. * Act as a force multiplier by mentoring Staff Engineers and influencing the careers of future Principal-level talent.  * Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership including advising on frontend capacity, standards, and hiring bar. * Set cultural standards for fearless iteration, bias for action, and pragmatic perfectionism—design for tomorrow, build for today. * Lead frontend alignment with the Architecture Office and drive org-wide frontend technical direction—including how the platform evolves, how embedded product UI stays compatible, and how we scale agent management platform UI without coordination tax. * Demonstrate org-level impact across microfrontend boundaries/versioning and independent deployability, Server-Driven UI library adoption decisions, and design-system governance (contribution model, migration strategy, and breaking-change management) with measurable improvements across multiple teams. OUR TECH STACK: * TypeScript, React, React Router, styled-components, TanStack Query, nanostores * Infrastructure: Micro-frontends with single-spa, Webpack, Turborepo, pnpm workspaces, GitHub Actions, Azure Blob Storage * Testing: Vitest, RTL, MSW, Playwright WHO YOU ARE: * Professional experience building and shipping production systems in fast-moving environments. * You take full ownership. When something matters, you drive it to completion and stand behind the outcome. * You have a strong bias for action. You move quickly, make informed decisions, and iterate based on real-world feedback. * You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into shipped results. * You think in systems: scalability, reliability, performance, and security are part of your default design mindset. * You define success clearly and measure it; you care deeply about customer impact and business outcomes. * You hold a high craftsmanship bar: clean, secure, well-tested code is your baseline. * You give and receive candid feedback, and you elevate those around you through mentoring and technical leadership. * You balance pragmatism with ambition, building for today while designing for tomorrow. * You want to help build not just features, but one of Europe’s most respected engineering organizations. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? * Join a diverse team of 40+ nationalities with flat hierarchies and a collaborative company culture. * Opportunity to build and scale your career at the intersection of customer-facing roles and engineering in a dynamic startup on its journey to become an international leader in SaaS platforms for Conversational AI. * Deutschland ticket, Urban Sports Club, Job Rad, Nilo Health, weekly sponsored office lunches * Competitive compensation and equity package. * Flexible working hours, 28 vacation days and workation opportunities. * Access to a training and development budget for continuous professional growth. * Regular team events, game nights, and other social activities. OUR VALUES At Parloa, we hire, promote, and evaluate based on cultural and technical excellence. You’ll thrive here if you: * Earn Trust – act with transparency and reliability. * Obsess Over Customers – always start with the customer problem. * Think Big – set bold goals and pursue them fearlessly. * Have Integrity – do the right thing, especially when it’s hard. * Disagree & Commit – debate with candor, align fast, and deliver. * Own It – take full responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks. * Dive Deep – master the details without losing sight of the big picture. * Bias for Action – move fast, decide quickly, iterate fearlessly. * Deliver Value – measure success by customer and business impact. * Insist on the Highest Standards – raise the bar continuously. * Go the Extra Mile – make the impossible possible. * Hire & Elevate the Best – raise the bar with every hire YOUR RECRUITING PROCESS AT PARLOA Recruiter Call → Technical Peer Interview → 360° Tech Interview Loop → Bar Raiser   WHY PARLOA?  Parloa is one of the fastest growing startups in the world of Generative AI and customer service. Parloa’s voice-first GenAI platform for contact centers is built on the best AI technology to automate customer service with natural-sounding conversations for outstanding experiences on all communication channels. Leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, Parloa creates intelligent phone and chat solutions for businesses that turn contact centers into value centers by boosting customer service efficiency. The Parloa platform resolves the majority of customer queries quickly and automatically, allowing human agents to focus on complex issues and relationships. Parloa was founded in 2018 by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald and today employs over 400+ people in Berlin, Munich, and New York. When you join Parloa, you become part of a dynamic and innovative team made up of over 34 nationalities that’s revolutionizing an entire industry. We’re passionate about growing together and creating opportunities for personal and professional development. With our recent $350 million Series D investment, we’re expanding globally and looking for talented individuals to join us on this exciting journey.   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parloa is committed to upholding the highest data protection standards for our clients' and employees' data. All our employees are instrumental in ensuring the utmost care, GDPR, and ISO compliance, including ISO 27001, in handling sensitive information. Parloa is an e-verify employer in the USA. Please click here to learn more. * We provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, disability status, socioeconomic background and other characteristics.