Senior Backend Engineer, Staffbase
Golang
+ Long Term Incentive Plan
Employee communications platform
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Employee communications platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Long Term Incentive Plan
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower communicators worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of professional experience in backend software development
- Strong proficiency in Golang and preferably Java/Kotlin
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Desirable
- Experience building backend systems designed for complex agentic workflows or long-running conversational states
- Familiarity with foundational LLM concepts such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Practical experience developing or managing MCP servers (Managing Conversational Protocols). Familiarity with Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication protocols and multi-agent system design
- Experience with event-driven architecture and message queues (e.g. Kafka)
What the job involves
- Working with skilled and similar-minded professionals in a team that values diversity and inclusivity
- We aim to create a flexible and agile work environment that promotes the well-being and work-life balance of our employees
- We believe that team events during working hours play a vital role in building an exceptionally effective team, and we encourage them
- We are enthusiastic about technology and committed to using it to improve the world
- We follow the "You build it, you run it" approach and take pride in it
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and fault-tolerant backend services that power our AI applications
- Apply advanced prompt engineering techniques to optimize model performance, manage context windows, and ensure reliable, high-quality responses
- Implement model integration patterns to connect and orchestrate various external and internal services
- Develop Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol communication strategies for complex multi-agent architectures
- Implement systems for Managing Conversational Protocols (MCP servers) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol to handle and maintain long-running, stateful interactions
- Define and implement observability standards for AI applications, including metrics for latency, cost, token usage, drift, and user-perceived quality
- Implement logging, tracing, and monitoring tools to quickly diagnose and troubleshoot issues in the end-to-end AI pipeline
- Collaborate with ML Scientists and Data Scientists to transition prototypes and models into production-ready, high-availability services
- Ensure the security, reliability, and performance of all production systems
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical strategy planning
- Mentor junior engineers and champion best practices in backend development and MLOps
Our take
Staffbase is the first AI-native employee experience platform and it's built to help companies keep their people connected - an employee app, intranet, email, SMS, digital signagfee, and Microsoft 365 integrations - all in one place. With more than 2,000 customers worldwide, including Adidas, Toyota, DHL, and Sephora, Staffbase is helping organisations build stronger, more aligned workplaces.
With teams spread across offices, countries, and time zones, companies need reliable ways to keep everyone informed and engaged. And Staffbase does just that, making communication simpler and more effective for every employee. Its tools, including an AI-powered Staffbase Companion assistant, give people the information they need quickly, so they can work more collaboratively with confidence.
A major leap forward for the company is Employee AI, Staffbase's new foundation for the next era of employee experience. Built on trusted data, governance, adn braod reach, it'sd esigned to make AI genuinely uselful for every employee. Features rolling out through 2025 and 2026 include a mobile-first AI assistant that helps employees complete tasks, hyper-personalised weekly podcasts, smarter content governance that keeps information up to date, and prompt-based tools that help teams create high-quality content faster.
With such strong momentum, industry recognition (like being named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for three years in a row), and a partnership with Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service, Staffbase is very much ready for the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2022
$124m
SERIES E
Mar 2021
$145m
SERIES D
Total funding: $324.3m
Company HQ
Altchemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Leadership
Martin Böhringer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded productivity app builder startup Hojoki, serving as CEO before co-founding Staffbase in 2014.
Lutz Gerlach
(Co-Founder & COO)Before Staffbase, co-founded and served as COO of Hojoki.
Frank Wolf
(Co-Founder & President)Previously worked in Social Technologies and Collaboration for T-Systems Multimedia Solutions (T-Mobile), following seven years as a Manager for Accenture.
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