Key skills
ElasticSearchGraphQLTypeScriptAIElasticsearchCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Own and evolve key parts of our TypeScript-based backend architecture
- Design and refine our GraphQL APIs (schema design, performance, authentication, data modeling)
- Integrate external and internal systems (REST and other interfaces)
- Build services and automations to manage and transform complex data
- Contribute to AI-assisted approaches for data structuring and internal tooling
- Ensure maintainability through clean architecture, testing, documentation, and best practices
- Balance rapid feature delivery with platform stability in a small, highly collaborative team
Requirements
- Strong backend experience with TypeScript
- Solid understanding of API design (GraphQL and/or REST) beyond just “making it work”
- Commitment to clean code, sound architecture, and long-term maintainability
- Interest in using AI meaningfully in development workflows and product features
- Proactive ownership mentality rather than waiting for instructions
- Comfortable balancing “shipping fast” with “building it right”
- Enjoy working in small teams where responsibility is shared
- Bonus: Experience with platform, multi-tenant, or international systems
- Bonus: Interest in complex data structures
- Bonus: Hands-on experimentation with AI tools in software development
- Bonus: Experience with Elasticsearch
Tech Stack
- ElasticSearch
- GraphQL
- TypeScript
Benefits
- 30 days of vacation
- Holiday and Christmas bonus
- Flexible working hours
- Modern office in Hamburg (5-minute walk from main station)
- Option to work from home regularly — while valuing on-site collaboration
- Hardware of your choice
- Employee discounts and team events
- Capital-forming benefits (Vermögenswirksame Leistungen)