Senior Full Stack Engineer, Community (London, hybrid)

We're in an exciting growth phase following our Series B funding and are expanding our team. Our hybrid working culture includes three office days per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) at our Berlin headquarters. Looking ahead, we're also growing London as our second location, with a new office planned for 2025.

A little about us

• Redefining graphic design: Kittl is transforming how creators work with an intuitive platform that stands as a modern, competitive alternative to traditional design tools: Build the new Adobe of tomorrow.
• Rapid growth: Millions of users within just two years of launch.
• Diverse team: 120+ team members representing 30+ different countries.
• Truly product-led company: Engineers, product managers, and designers are at the core of Kittl - shaping an engineering-driven working culture.
• Strong funding: Raised over $50M from world-renowned investors who have also backed companies like Slack, Dropbox, and Figma.

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Your role at Kittl

As part of a cross-functional team including product managers, developers, and designers, you'll create and develop an amazing product that you'll be proud of. You'll be joining our new Community team, which sits under our Product Growth department. The Community team will be responsible for driving user engagement, by scaling up our two-sided marketplace with product-led growth initiatives. You'll help build a creator platform which automates creator onboarding, and provide creators with guidance and statistics for their created content.

What you'll do

• Produce high-quality results: You'll lead and contribute heavily to large cross-functional projects that have a significant impact on the business.
• Resolve production issues: You'll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging production issues.
• Improve engineering standards: You'll improve tooling and processes.

What you'll need

• Experience: Minimum 6 years of professional development experience with a recent focus on TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
• Testing: Strong proficiency with unit, integration, and E2E testing.
• Application state management: Expertise in complex state management.
• ORM & SQL: Experience writing raw SQL, familiarity with ORM tools a plus.
• Cloud: Knowledge of AWS, familiarity with static hosting platforms such as Vercel a plus.
• CI/CD: Understanding of Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery processes.

Interview process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)
• Director of Engineering interview (30 min)
• Technical take-home assignment
• Technical interview (60 min)
• CTO interview (30 min)
• Bar raiser interview with Chief of Staff, right hand to CEO (30 min)

We are looking for someone

• Exceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quo.
• Who takes extreme ownership & gets things done.
• Who goes above and beyond in their role.

Benefits

• Maximise your impact: No matter if you're leading a team or you stand out by your domain expertise - all we care about is supporting you to maximise your own impact.
• Hackathons: Our quarterly hackathons provide an environment to experiment with new concepts, push boundaries, and potentially deliver the next big thing.
• Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers together for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun.
• Flexible working hours: Our core hours are 11am-5pm CET, leaving the rest of your schedule flexible to fit your style.
• Workspace access: Premium WeWork All Access account, enabling you to work from any global WeWork location.
• Remote work: Work up to 50 days (10 weeks) fully remote per year from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain our core hours.
• Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year.

At Kittl, we embrace diversity and value every team member's unique background, identity, and experience. We're all about respect, honesty, and inclusivity. Together, we create a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on this exciting journey of making our company and product even better!