Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Leapsome
HRIS
Salary not provided
+ Pre-IPO equity package
React
MongoDB
AWS
Docker
TypeScript
Node.js
Vue.js
Sentry
Mocha
Mixpanel
Notion
Playwright
Datadog
Senior and Expert level
Berlin
Performance management platform
Be an early applicant
Performance management platform
101-200 employees
B2BLearningBusiness IntelligenceSaaS
Be an early applicant
Salary not provided
+ Pre-IPO equity package
React
MongoDB
AWS
Docker
TypeScript
Node.js
Vue.js
Sentry
Mocha
Mixpanel
Notion
Playwright
Datadog
Senior and Expert level
Berlin
101-200 employees
B2BLearningBusiness IntelligenceSaaS
Company mission
To make work more fulfilling for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Share our belief that engineering is a product-focused discipline, and you’re passionate about solving user problems with impactful solutions
- Thrive in a dynamic, agile environment where priorities can shift, and enjoy collaborating across teams and domains
- Have 5+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer, working on scalable and secure applications
- Are proficient with modern web frameworks (e.g., Vue.js, React) and backend technologies (Node.js, MongoDB)
- Have experience working on transactional systems and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
- Are excited by the opportunity to leverage AI/LLMs to build innovative features and automate workflows
- Value pragmatic excellence, striking a balance between high standards and efficient delivery
- Enjoy mentoring teammates, fostering a collaborative, supportive engineering culture
- Can contribute to discussions on architecture and strategy while excelling in hands-on development
What the job involves
- Join a small yet impactful engineering team that’s reshaping the future of work
- At Leapsome, we empower product engineers to take ownership of their work, contributing to the full lifecycle of our features—from ideation and discovery to development and iteration
- Collaboration is at the core of how we operate: you’ll work closely with product and design teams, combining vision and technical insight to create innovative, scalable, and secure solutions that delight our users
- We emphasize delivering exceptional user experiences and solving real-world problems through thoughtful design, robust engineering, and an iterative, data-driven approach
- As part of an agile and ambitious team, you’ll play a key role in shaping product and architecture decisions, creating features that truly make an impact
- Your primary focus will be on HRIS modules, such as payroll, time tracking, absences, and compensation
- You’ll tackle complex workflows and compliance requirements, creating secure, scalable, and user-friendly tools that simplify HR processes for companies of all sizes
- Alongside this, you’ll have opportunities to contribute to other strategic initiatives, including People Enablement and smarter platform features leveraging AI/LLMs
- Develop and enhance HRIS modules, focusing on complex workflows like payroll, time tracking, absences, and compensation
- Collaborate with product, design, and legal teams to ensure compliance while delivering user-friendly, scalable solutions
- Implement innovative solutions using AI/LLMs to automate workflows and enhance the user experience
- Build and maintain reusable, scalable frontend and backend components using our modern tech stack (Vue.js, Node.js, MongoDB)
- Ensure high-quality releases by contributing to robust testing, monitoring, and code review processes
- Analyze data and user feedback to refine features iteratively and deliver meaningful product improvements
- Contribute to cross-domain projects, such as smarter platform initiatives or People Enablement, when strategic priorities align
- Actively participate in code reviews, testing, and documentation to maintain long-term maintainability and quality
- Provide mentorship and guidance to teammates, helping the team grow in technical and product expertise
- Frontend: Vue.js, TailwindCSS, and a modern design system for a consistent, intuitive user experience
- Backend: Node.js (TypeScript) with Express, MongoDB and NATS, built for scalability and modularity
- AI/LLMs: Integration of state-of-the-art AI technologies, like GPT from OpenAI and LangChain, to create smarter workflows and enhance functionality
- Infrastructure: Docker and AWS, ensuring robust CI/CD pipelines and scalable infrastructure
- Testing: Automated testing using Playwright, Vitest, Mocha/Chai, and other tools to maintain high-quality, reliable codebases
- Analytics: Mixpanel, Sentry, Datadog and custom solutions for data-driven development and monitoring
- Collaboration: GitHub, Notion, and async communication tools for transparent teamwork
Application process
- Just send us your CV. You won't need to input any information already mentioned on your CV later on - promise! 🤙
- A cover letter isn’t necessary, but we’d really appreciate a brief answer to these questions: Why Leapsome? Why you?
- We look forward to getting to know you!
Our take
Berlin-founded, New York-based Leapsome is a ‘people enablement’ platform that works to improve employee performance and satisfaction through various methods from feedback and OKRs to employee engagement and corporate learning options.
Recognising the amount of time a person will spend in a work environment, the company aims to help employees grow and develop in this time, whilst boosting a company’s efficiency and productivity. Over a relatively short time, it has amounted trust and respect within the industry.
The company has now accrued over one thousand customers across Europe, U.S, Asia and Australia, including impressive clients such as Spotify and Merecedes-Benz. Leapsome has also raised considerable funding towards accelerating its US market presence whilst continuing to develop new products and features.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Led by a woman
Top investors
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2022
$60m
SERIES A
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- Become part of a fast-growing scale-up taking over the People Performance & Enablement space by making work fulfilling for more than two million people by 2025
- Join a diverse and international team of talented, smart, and kind people
- We value feedback exchange and celebrating successes — big and small
- Enjoy our hybrid model by working from home or in our offices in the heart of Berlin, Germany
- Develop your skills with a yearly development budget of €2,000
- Experience a healthy work-life balance with flexible work hours and the option of working abroad for up to 2 months per year
- Have fun at monthly team activities like kayaking, laser tag, and game nights
- Stay active and healthy with a free Urban Sports Club membership
- Take 30 vacation days every year (plus public holidays)
- Receive competitive pay and a pre-IPO equity package
- Get support and sponsorship for relocation (if needed)
Company values
- Listen & learn - We always seek understanding. It helps us grow together and learn from each other — as well as from our customers and partners
- Challenge the status quo - We challenge ourselves and don’t walk the beaten path just because everyone else does. Instead, we reflect and seek out better ways.
- Take ownership & pursue excellence - We’re a group of smart and dedicated people, and we trust each other to truly own our work. We’re not afraid of high expectations
- Seek impact - What brought us together was the desire to make work fulfilling for everyone. We’re like-minded in that we hold ourselves accountable for the impact we want to have in this world
- Be honest & transparent - We’re honest and transparent with each other and ourselves. We want to get to the core of it, always. We trust each other to handle all shared information with care
- Be kind & humble - We are more than just colleagues — we genuinely care for each other. We give each team member the appreciation they deserve and the support they need. We have no interest in serving our egos
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jenny von Podewils
(Co-CEO)Previously co-founded udexter and has served as Advisor to the CEO for DIE ZEIT.
Kajetan von Armansperg
(Co-CEO)Previously co-founded Alive and served as Vice President of Product for Zencap.
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