Full-stack Engineer; Senior, Backend focused

Overview

We’re looking for a full-stack engineer with a backend mindset to join our product team in building a platform that is easy to use and welcomes thousands of happy customers every day. As Feather expands to a global scale, you’ll help maintain the customer experience smooth and reliable by scaling our systems and infrastructure alongside the company, and raising the bar of the engineering team.

• We’re small, lean, and we love what we do. The usual buzzwords here, except we actually mean them. Staying small helps us focus on what matters, and we want to keep it that way.
• A modern tech stack to work with. We use Type Script with NestJS, Prisma and React. Our CI/CD runs on Git Hub actions, and the code is deployed to GCP with Docker and Terraform.
• You’ll work on a product that is loved by customers. Our excellent Trustpilot and Google reviews speak for themselves.
• There s plenty of space to grow. We trust you to take ownership and make decisions from day one, and we will give you all the support and mentorship you need to succeed.
• You’ll have the freedom to explore and innovate. Our regular hack days let you experiment with new technologies and ideas. Our design system Dirty Swan and several other internal tools were once a hack day project.
• Flexible remote work policy. We offer a remote-first work environment with an office in Berlin. We host company retreats, team dinners, and meetups to spend in-person time together.

At Feather, you ll be trusted with significant responsibility early on. That means we value engineers who communicate well, take ownership, and are comfortable with uncertainty. If you enjoy shaping both the "what" and the "how" of building products, you ll fit right in.

The technical side matters too, and here’s the baseline:

• You ve built full-stack applications with React and node.js, backed by a SQL database.
• You re comfortable building UIs with a design system, like our own Dirty Swan.
• You re comfortable working across the stack, but you re specialized in backend systems.
• You have a good understanding of modern web development workflows (CI/CD pipelines, version control, testing, and deployment).
• You can write clean, maintainable code and make sound architectural decisions.
• You have a good understanding of security topics and can employ a security-first mindset as you write code.

But that s it. We don t expect you to know everything about the latest hype architecture or framework. We prefer hiring someone curious but practical, who can pick the right, often boring, tool for the job.

We encourage people that don’t have a formal higher education, or who switched to engineering later in their careers to apply. If you enjoy the challenge and can learn fast, the team will provide you with the support you need.

You ll help shape and work on product features in a highly collaborative, small team. This is a full-stack role, where you ll be mainly focused on backend initiatives.

From day one, you ll ship code to production, and over time, you ll explore every corner of our product. There will be lots of hands-on coding, but that s only a part of the job.

Your main focus areas will be:

• Platform:
  Maintain and develop our system with NestJS, Prisma, React, and Postgre
  
  SQL. Manage core infrastructure like CI/CD pipelines and our serverless GCP setup with Terraform and Docker.
• Product:
  Collaborate with Product and Design to help shape the projects on our roadmap, lead them from early on, and successfully see them to completion.
• Architecture and processes:
  Propose and challenge software architectural decisions and engineering processes to ensure the team can keep building our platform in a sustainable and scalable way.
• Mentorship:
  Coach other team members, help them to grow, guide them on product and software decisions, and keep a high bar for code quality.
• Security:
  Advocate for security best practices within the team, and help identify potential risks during implementation and audits.

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