Senior Backend Engineer, Contentful
Focus Ninetailed Experience API
+ Stock Options
Content management platform
Open for applications
Content management platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To modernize how content flows by leading the transition from legacy CMS to content infrastructure.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in building APIs and services that efficiently handle large volumes of traffic
- Strong proficiency with server-side TypeScript and API protocol design
- Experience with serverless architectures, ideally edge compute environments such as Cloudflare Workers
- Familiarity with lower-level languages such as Rust is a plus
- Familiarity with runtime environments like V8 and experience in optimizing infrastructure and algorithms for performance
- Hands-on experience with benchmarking, instrumenting code for observability, and performance optimization for large-scale systems
- Expertise in defensive coding practices, ensuring system robustness and fault tolerance
- Proficiency in using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and maintaining automated tests with tools like Jest or Mocha
- Proactive approach with a high sense of ownership
- Great communication skills in English, especially when explaining complex technical concepts
What the job involves
- At Ninetailed by Contentful, you will revolutionize personalization & experimentation for leading businesses worldwide. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll solve complex technical puzzles and challenges to continuously optimize our low latency Experience API, processing billions of requests in real time. Your work will enable our customers to serve personalized digital user experiences in the most performant way possible
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services with a focus on reliability and scalability based on very modern technologies like Cloudflare Workers
- Constantly search for opportunities to improve the system performance and iterate on its architecture
- Solve technical challenges in creative ways, balancing the tradeoff between performance and elegant software architecture
- Continuously monitor and optimize system performance through benchmarking, while making sure the system is well instrumented for observability
- Stay up to date with the latest technologies and constantly evaluate their potential usage at Ninetailed
- Implement defensive coding practices, ensuring systems are resilient and fault-tolerant
- Guarantee correctness and maintainable code through automated testing
Our take
Creating, distributing and managing digital content can be complex, time-consuming and difficult, especially at scale. Contentful solves this problem by centralizing all content management into one API-based system.
Since founding in 2013, Contentful has grown to become one of the largest companies of its kind. It now serves thousands of customers, many of which are enterprises such as Danone and Bang & Olufsen. Importantly, the company has continued to improve its offering, for example by partnering with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to offer a way for users to achieve ADA compliance.
In recent years, Contentful has grown its executive team, attracting top talent from companies like Zendesk and Atlassian which has helped to accelerate its ambitious growth strategy. It has also expanded its relationship with AWS, launching the Contentful Composable Content Platform in AWS Marketplace, a key move that will help to broaden its reach and ensure it remains a key player in the competitive CMS market.
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Diversity is a priority
"I really like the no-nonsense approach to D+E+I in Contentful. We employ people from over 70 nationalities, there are a lot of grassroots employee..."
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2021
$175m
SERIES F
Jun 2020
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $331.1m
Company benefits
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, education days, and volunteer days
- Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- Use your physical fitness budget to get away from your desk and support your physical wellness
- A monthly phone/internet stipend and phone upgrade reimbursement after 2 years
- Plus, Contentful socks! And other amazing swag as part of company events. Oh yeah!
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for information, support, discussion, and counseling for life’s challenges
Company values
- Be humble - We are not centered on ourselves, but focus on the needs and contributions of others around them
- Embody a growth mindset - We believe in our collective potential to develop and evolve through dedication and continuous learning
- Start with the customer and work backwards - The first question we ask is “What customer need does this solve?” and treats each customer with empathy
- Strive together - Creating anything of significance without collaboration is challenging, so we work hard together to make an impact
Company HQ
Brunnenviertel, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Paolo Negri
(CTO)Previously worked as Senior Developer at AutoScout24, and Senior Developer Team Lead at Wooga.
Sascha Konietzke
(CSO & Board Member)Previously worked as EMEA Manager at Hewlett-Packard, and founded a range of companies including angel investment firm Ko9.
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