Senior Backend Software Engineer, Prisma
TypeScript, Prisma ORM
+ Stock-option grants with a exercise window of up to 10 years
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Simplifying working and interacting with databases
Be an early applicant
Simplifying working and interacting with databases
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock-option grants with a exercise window of up to 10 years
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To unlock productivity for developer by bringing delightful ways to build with data.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Senior Software Engineer (or equivalent senior-level role) with a proven track record of delivering production-grade systems
- Deep backend engineering expertise with JavaScript and TypeScript, writing clean, maintainable, and scalable codebases
- Strong database proficiency:
- Hands-on experience with high-scale, data-intensive systems
- Skilled at query optimization, diagnosing performance bottlenecks, and managing indexes
- Direct experience tuning databases for reliability and speed in demanding environments
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal; able to express complex technical concepts with clarity
- A mindset of continuous learning and feedback: proactively seek input, adapt quickly, and embrace collaboration
- Team-oriented approach: value pairing, mentoring, and proactively supporting peers
- Passion for building outstanding developer experience through sustainable, well-tested tools and infrastructure that empower developers and improve workflows
Desirable
- Contributions to open source projects (as maintainer or active contributor)
- Experience with systems-level programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Go, Zig, or others) and an interest in low-level performance optimization
- Experience with edge computing platforms (e.g., Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers)
- Exposure to or curiosity about WebAssembly (WASM) and its applications in backend systems
What the job involves
- By combining the power of open-source with cutting-edge commercial solutions, we’re shaping the future of databases, one developer at a tim
- You will join a team of skilled TypeScript engineers tackling challenges across the stack to deliver a market-leading ORM
- Expanding the Prisma Client to support advanced database capabilities
- Drive the process from technical design through implementation
- Continuously refine and harden the codebase to ensure stability, maintainability, and ease of contribution
- Building new libraries and tools that serve as foundational components, both for our internal teams and for the developer community
- Elevating the developer experience (DX) by shaping intuitive, high-quality tools that make database access a delight
- Advancing TypeScript adoption by exploring and applying the latest language features, ensuring Prisma stays at the forefront of modern development
Application process
- Introductory Call with your future manager
- Take Home Assignment followed by a Technical Interview based on the solution you submitted
- System Design Interview with a senior member of our engineering team
- Interview with our Head of Engineering
- Final Interview **with our CEO
- Offer
- We will generally be in touch within 7 business days to let you know the outcome
Our take
Prisma decided to solve the age-old problem of wasted time tracking down typos and errors in code with the creation of an intelligent autocomplete feature, reducing errors such as the misspelling of variable names or misplaced parentheses.
Prisma offers a database toolkit with some powerful features such as Prisma schema data modelling and Prisma Migrate for migrations. It is an open-source ORM for Node.js and TypeScript that helps developers build faster and make fewer errors: fundamentally, it's a suite of software tools for programmers.
Investment has led to further developments by the company, with the creation of a visual editor for database workflows, and the continuing support of all data sources with the creation of further connectors for a wide range of databases. Most recent funding is going towards supporting the development of its open source tool to increase its commercial and revenue-generating products.
Kirsty
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Jun 2020
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56.5m
Company benefits
- Stock options package with a maximum exercise period of 10 years after grant
- Generous recurring tech budget and subsidy for an ergonomic chair
- 24 vacation days per year in addition to sick leave and public holidays
- 20 weeks paid parental leave and 10 days paid time off per year in the event of the sickness of your child
- 4 mental health days per year
- 6-week paid sabbatical leave after three years
- Access to co-working spaces in your area
- Dedicated People and Operations team
- Two company offsites each year
Company HQ
Helmholtzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Søren Bramer Schmidt
(CEO)Previously a Software Developer at TrustPilot before founding nutrition technology platform EatBetter, and then Prisma.
Nitin Gupta
(COO)Previously a VP of Partnerships and Customer Success at Scandit, a Mentor at 500 Startups, an Interim COO at Scortex, and CBO at Sticky.ai.
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