Senior Full Stack Engineer, Real-time Collaboration Tools (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Kittl is transforming how creators work with an intuitive platform that stands as a modern, competitive alternative to outdated traditional design tools

• Rapid growth: Achieved millions of users within just two years of launch

• Diverse team: 120+ team members representing 25+ different countries

• Product-led approach: Product managers, engineers, and designers are at the core of Kittl's innovation

• 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, designers and a founding team, you will create and develop an amazing product that you will be proud of. The Collaboration team at Kittl enhances the platform by integrating multi-user collaboration features, allowing projects to be shared and worked on simultaneously. The goal is to ensure these features are essential for scaling into new use cases, including marketing and beyond. You know how to make complex things simple, and can work fast and smart at the same time.

What you'll do

• Develop real-time collaboration features: Some features you'll create are managing team accounts, real-time co-editing, commenting & sharing, role-based permissions, and project history.

• Produce high-quality results: You'll lead and contribute heavily to large cross-functional projects (both frontend and backend) 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 focus on TypeScript, React, and Node.js

• Real-time communication / collaboration feature development: Recent professional development experience with WebSocket or Socket.IO for real-time collaboration tools. Experience with CRDT or Yjs a plus

• Testing: Strong proficiency with unit, integration and E2E testing

• 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)

• Technical take home assignment

• Technical interview (60 min)

• Leadership interviews with Director of Engineering (30 min) & CTO (30 min)

• Bar raiser interview with Chief of Staff, right hand to CEO (30 min)

We are looking for someone

• Exceptionally driven to create impact and challenge the status quo

• Who demonstrates extreme ownership & gets things done

• Who goes above and beyond in their role

• Data driven

Benefits

• Collaborative, product-led culture: You'll be working with a truly product-led company, with PMs, engineers, and designers at the heart of our mission

• Flexible working hours: Common working hours are 11am to 5pm CET, with the rest of your working time being flexible to fit your style (early riser or night owl)

• Remote work allowance: Up to 50 working days per year (10 weeks) to work fully remotely from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain common working hours

• Workspace access: Premium WeWork All Access account, enabling you to work from any global WeWork location

• Team engagement: Regular team events and offsites to strengthen our team connections

• Vacation: 30 vacation days per year for all employees

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!