Senior Backend Developer, Tellonym

Millions of Users

€75-120k

+ Employee Stock Option Plan

SQL

AWS

TypeScript

Elasticsearch

Redis

Node.js

Cassandra

MySQL

Senior level

Remote from Europe, UK

Anonymous messaging & social app

Job no longer available

Anonymous messaging & social app

1-20 employees

B2CCommunicationSocial Media

Job no longer available

€75-120k

+ Employee Stock Option Plan

SQL

AWS

TypeScript

Elasticsearch

Redis

Node.js

Cassandra

MySQL

Senior level

Remote from Europe, UK

1-20 employees

B2CCommunicationSocial Media

Company mission

To empower people to build strong relationships and enable meaningful conversations by removing social and physical constraints.

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Company

Role

Who you are

Living in Europe
Enthusiastic about Node.js with experience 5+ years
Extensive Typescript knowledge
Confident with SQL databases especially optimising for performance
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Passionate about writing well-structured, efficient and maintainable code
Values an environment of candid feedback
Used to work in an English-speaking environment

What the job involves

At Tellonym, you will be joining a young and diverse team with a variety of experience, skills and personal backgrounds. Everybody in our company can bring in ideas that will directly affect the millions of active users on Tellonym
Our backend is running on Node.js fully hosted on AWS. We use MySQL as our primary data store that is also self-maintained, but also make use of Apache Cassandra for feeds and ElasticSearch for search / text indexing. For caching we use basic Redis structures.
We also run our own chat system that uses WebSockets for real-time communication. A large part of our system is our analytics services run via Clickhouse as well as our "worker" infrastructure to feature several async mechanisms in a scalable way
Take ownership and implement new features and improvements into our Node.js API
Enhance your knowledge to implement product requirements or performance optimisations
Understand existing code and rework it to fulfil coding standards
Draft architectural decisions together with the Tech Lead
Have a direct impact on team processes and conventions by regular retrospectives

Our take

To stand any real chance of breaking into the social media and/or messaging spaces, startups have to do something different from the rest. The co-founding trio behind Tellonym, who were still students at the time, felt the need for a social app that promoted honesty, and they made it happen by ensuring anonymity.

Tellonym made quite an impression particularly with younger users, gaining millions of users in Germany and Europe at large. The app hasn’t been without its critics however, with media headlines drawing attention to how it could be abused for cyberbullying while protecting the identity of the offenders.

It should be noted that all social media come with these risks, and the team behind Tellonym have installed safety features to fight such behaviour, while they’ve also brought in stricter parental protection measures.

It remains to be seen whether these help, or indeed if they negatively impact Tellonym’s popularity. However, while the app has been unable to shake bullying concerns, the fact that the app is still holding its own as a niche social medium, having grown with only seed funding, is impressive.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

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Company benefits

Flat hierarchies that offer lots of freedom, impact as well as responsibility
Completely flexible working times and location (we are doing half-yearly team retreats with hackathons)
The right environment to learn new things and personally develop yourself
Competitive compensation package and the option to participate in our ESOP system
Modern working tools, hardware (Macbook) also for private usage
State-of-the-art tech stack running on AWS
Work with an exceptional team of young and smart people with a diverse background

Company HQ

Wallstr. 88 10179 Berlin Deutschland

Leadership

Maximilian Rellin

(CEO)

Co-founded Tellonym in 2016 while still a Computer Science & Economics student at the University of Göttingen in Germany.

Johannes Sorg

(COO)

Was also still a student at at the University of Göttingen while co-founding the company.

Birger Naß

(Senior Frontend Development)

Tellonym was their first entrepreneurial effort, having previously trained in Software Development at meetyoo conferencing.

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