Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js/TypeScript)

About Zero to One Search

Zero to One Search GmbH is a Germany-based international recruitment agency with a focus on connecting IT professionals with tech companies. Our mission is to help tech players to find candidates in accordance with their businesses' needs, and IT specialists to get the right jobs with interesting challenges and opportunity to relocate to Europe. The company was established in 2017 as a remote agency with a team of recruiters from all over the world. We speak 7+ languages and will be happy to help with your next career move in Europe!

Position

Our client is a startup company with an ambitious idea: to build out a medicine delivery platform in Europe which partners with small-scale pharmacies that tend to be the norm on the continent, capitalizing on how the pandemic has generally accelerated demand for on-demand delivery.

They got the biggest pre-seed among all Berlin-based startups this year, already released a beta of their app, and are still actively expanding their team.

They are looking for experienced Backend Engineers (with significant experience in TypeScript) to join the backend team to create a previously unseen product experience together.

Your Mission 

• Together with a highly experienced team of Product Managers, Mobile Frontend Engineers Engineers, and other Backend Engineers build a successful mobile product from scratch
• Build reliable and scalable systems with high performance, while being open to new leading-edge technologies and languages
• Evolve team culture and processes through collaboration, participation in sprint rituals, and mutual mentorship

Your qualification

• 5+ years Backend development experience including TypeScript
• You know how to handle and scale a cloud tech stack: TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Mongo/MySQL, AWS (S3, SQS, RDS, etc.), Heroku, Docker, ElasticSearch, ORM, etc.
• You were at least once responsible for a medium/large scale backend application
• You love complex challenges, you know how to evaluate solutions and how to choose the right one based on your experience and clever decision making with the team
• Full professional English proficiency

What we offer

• Join to shape v1 together, while using a state-of-the-art tech stack from day one
• Become part of a highly experienced, ambitious, and diverse team that believes in collaboration, a bias for action, and merit
• Seize the one-time opportunity to build a new category-winning product with enormous scaling potential
• Apply today – we will be mindful of your time throughout the whole process and hope to welcome you soon as a new core team member in Berlin