Senior Backend Engineer, Contentful
Focus Insights 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 building high-traffic APIs and data products for processing large volumes of events
- Strong proficiency with server-side TypeScript and API protocol design
- Familiarity with API Contracts (e.g., ts-rest, tRPC) & Data Contracts (e.g., ProtoBuf, Avro)
- Experience working with Cloudflare Workers is a plus
- Proficiency in using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and maintaining automated tests with tools like Jest or Mocha
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (Pub/Sub, BigQuery, CloudRun, GCS) is beneficial
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform
- Proactive approach with a high sense of ownership
- Strong collaborative mindset with experience working cross-functionally
- Ability to think strategically and anticipate future challenges or opportunities
- Great communication skills in English, especially when explaining complex technical concepts
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping and scaling our Insights API, ingesting billions of analytics events
- Your work will enable our customers to generate impactful, data-driven insights through an API driven query engine
- Own and scale our Insights API, focusing on high-performance event ingestion and querying systems
- Collaborate closely with data engineers and other teams building our SDKs & APIs, ensuring smooth data integration and optimized workflows
- Design and build APIs that can handle high volumes of traffic, while providing an outstanding developer experience
- Contribute to system architecture by bringing your ideas and experience to the table to optimize API design
- Maintain stability and optimize for operational and cost efficiency
- Drive observability, ensuring the services you build are well-instrumented, tested, and monitored
- Ensure compliance with GDPR and other privacy regulations
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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Employee endorsements
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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