(Senior) Backend Engineer - JVM/Kotlin (m/f/d)

About Superchat

At Superchat, we’re reimagining how businesses communicate with their customers. Our mission is simple: Communicating with a business should be as easy and natural as talking to a friend.

Superchat is the most comprehensive messaging-suite for small and medium-sized businesses. Using our platform, businesses of all sizes can connect with customers via any channel (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Telegram and many more) and send out payment requests, collect reviews and sell products in a modern and convenient way.

Superchat raised over $19 million in capital from leading Venture Capital funds Blossom Capital and 468 Capital as well as angel investors including the founders of Trivago, Lieferando and Lovoo.

Position

Your responsibilities:

• Take ownership: Build and deliver new features to our customers on your own
• Collaboration: Work closely together with our frontend engineers
• Improve performance of our platform to increase the user experience of our customers
• Participate in discussions about the long-term architecture of Superchat
• Shape internal development processes/best-practices that allow to scale the engineering team over time
• Bring up your own ideas to shape our product

Tech stack:

• Kotlin with the Quarkus Framework
  • You have used Java/Spring Boot instead? Don't worry, we will get you into Kotlin/Quarkus very quickly
• AWS: RDS with Postgres, S3, SQS, SNS, SES
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Typesense (Search)
• Linear (project management)
• LaunchDarkly (feature flagging)
• Doppler (secret management)
• DataDog / Sentry / BetterUptime to monitor our services
• Typescript / React / NextJS / TailwindCSS for our web application
• Tyescript and React Native for our mobile application
• Check out our entire tech stack: https://stackshare.io/superchat/superchat

What we offer

Aside from our people, culture and mission, there are a variety of additional benefits that help make Superchat a great place to work! 

• Competitive compensation package that includes salary, benefits, and stock options of Superchat. We want everybody to be a true owner in Superchat.
• 26 days of paid vacation + 2 days off for Christmas and New Year's Eve (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
• Regular company and team events like pizza & beer evenings, sport activities, legendary parties, and more!
• Annual personal development budget for conferences, courses, books, career coach, etc. 
• An inclusive and exciting start-up environment culture that offers accelerated career and personal growth
• Beautiful office in the heart of Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg) equipped with ergonomic chairs, height adjustable desks, free snacks, beverages and overall good vibes.

Additional details

This is an on-site role in Berlin. We are offering a hybrid model with 2 days home office per week.

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At Superchat, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply, even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out - and set you apart - especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Superchat, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us!

We are looking forward to your application!