Software Engineer: Backend (F/M/D)

To extend and scale our technical platform, we are looking for an experienced backend engineer. You will be able to work with one of the most senior early-stage tech teams in Europe and contribute to building a platform with the highest quality standards and a cutting edge tech-stack.

Your contributions to our journey:

• Be involved in defining and shaping our technical roadmap.
• Drive and spear-head architectural and software design decisions.
• Take part in shaping our software development processes as well as quality and security standards.
• Be hands-on in designing, developing and deploying scalable web applications.
• Mentor other team members and be involved in hiring software engineers.

Why Flinn?

• We are building a truly exceptional culture: While many companies claim to have a great culture, we invite you to discover what truly sets ours apart. Visit our career page, speak with our team, listen to our founders’ podcast, or experience our culture first-hand during the interview process.
• Make a Meaningful Impact: Your work at Flinn contributes directly to solutions that improve people’s health and lives by making high-quality health products accessible for everyone.
• Experienced, well-funded, highly professional: As well-funded startup veterans, we know how to sustain long-term business health and success, ensuring an environment for continuous personal growth.

What is in for you?

• Grow with us. We are committed to supporting you in your professional and personal development, no matter whether you aim to become a great leader, renowned expert, successful entrepreneur, or high performing specialist.
• Staying healthy is a top priority. We help each other to reflect, stay in balance, and free up company budget to support healthy activities (food, subscriptions, team activities etc.).
• Competitive compensation, including the most employee friendly stock options. Such as fair leaver & vesting terms, secondary exit participation and profit participation opportunities for employees.
• We offer you flexibility and empower you to design your days/weeks according to your needs. Therefore, we offer unlimited vacation and very flexible working hours.
• We commit ourselves to the highest integrity standards. Great performance is not an excuse for disrespectful, jerk-like behavior.

What you have done in the past:

• Proven track record of designing, implementing, delivering and maintaining complex web applications.
• Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript (TypeScript is a plus).
• Extensive experience building modern backend systems using Node.js preferably also Express.js.
• Solid understanding of both relational and non-relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL and MongoDB), experience with Elasticsearch is a plus.
• At least basic understanding of containerization technologies (preferably Docker and/or Kubernetes) and cloud computing platforms (any).
• Experience in frontend development with React is a plus.
• An appreciation for reusability and a component-based interface design approach.
• Motivation to write clean, well-tested, well-documented and maintainable code following strict compliance rules and guidelines.

Attributes we are looking for:

• You have a positive, problem-solving mindset and a clear bias for action, you bring in your ideas and solutions proactively.
• You have a passion for sharing your knowledge, you mentor less experienced engineers, you lead by example.
• You are a good communicator both with technical and non-technical folks and are able to give and receive direct and open feedback.
• You are flexible, pragmatic, and able to react to new findings and keep adapting under dynamic environments.
• You are passionate about creating products that solve real-world problems, while regarding technology as a tool and not an end in itself.

At this stage of our company, we can only accept applications from people who are based in Europe with either European citizenship, an active working visa or being self-employed and joining us as a full-time contractor.

We strive to remove barriers, eliminate discrimination, and ensure equal opportunity through our transparent recruitment process. We are open to all groups of people without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status or any other legally protected characteristic.