Senior Full Stack Engineer, Kittl
Real-time Collaboration Tools
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3 days a week in office
Intuitive web application graphic design platform
Open for applications
Intuitive web application graphic design platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the no. 1 platform for creatives who make money with design. We empower them to create easier, faster, and more creatively to increase their business profits.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: Minimum 6 years of professional development experience with a focus on TypeScript, React, and Node.js
- Real-time communication / collaboration feature development: Recent professional development experience with WebSocket or Socket.IO for real-time collaboration tools. Experience with CRDT or Yjs a plus
- Testing: Strong proficiency with unit, integration and E2E testing
- ORM & SQL: Experience writing raw SQL, familiarity with ORM tools a plus
- Cloud: Knowledge of AWS, familiarity with static hosting platforms such as Vercel a plus
- CI/CD: Understanding of Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery processes
What the job involves
- As part of a cross-functional team including product managers, developers, designers and a founding team, you will create and develop an amazing product that you will be proud of
- The Collaboration team at Kittl enhances the platform by integrating multi-user collaboration features, allowing projects to be shared and worked on simultaneously
- The goal is to ensure these features are essential for scaling into new use cases, including marketing and beyond. You know how to make complex things simple, and can work fast and smart at the same time
- Develop real-time collaboration features: Some features you'll create are managing team accounts, co-editing, commenting & sharing, role-based permissions, brand kit, integrations, as well as project history
- Produce high-quality results: You'll lead and contribute heavily to large cross-functional projects (both frontend and backend) that have a significant impact on the business
- Resolve production issues: You'll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging production issues
- Improve engineering standards: You'll improve tooling and processes
Application process
- Recruiter interview
- Technical take home assignment
- Technical interview
- Leadership interviews with Director of Engineering & CTO (30 minutes each)
- Bar raiser interview with Founders Associate, right hand to CEO (30 minutes)
Our take
In order to meet their branding and marketing needs, businesses can either hire graphic designers at a cost to their budget or rely upon free templates they can edit to their uses. However, whilst these templates have allowed many lower-budget businesses to create a digital image, it has also made it difficult for them to appear unique online. Kittl supplies a design platform for companies to create effective and individual graphics online, easily, and without the need for design expertise.
Kittl was founded in 2020 to combat the “cookie cutter” digital image landscape brought about by the rise in templates. Its platform allows clients to make detailed and unique logos without design training; with tools including text shading and text decoration, libraries of images and ornaments, and much more. On top of this, the company provides tutorials and inspiration for customers to make the most of what it provides.
Early Kittl clients include the likes of Warner Bros, Netflix, and German publisher Hubert Burda Media. The company has secured significant funding, the latest of which is cited to help grow its team and develop better tools for its users to unlock their creativity, as it further establishes itself and attracts new customers.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$36m
SERIES B
Jan 2023
$11.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.6m
Company benefits
- 30 vacation days per year for all employees
- An allowance of 10 weeks per year of fully remote work from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain core working hours (12pm to 5pm CET)
- Core working hours are 12pm to 5pm CET, with the rest of your working time being flexible so you can work in a style that suits you best (early riser or a night owl)
- You'll be working with a truly product-led company with PM's, engineers and designers at the heart of the company
- Urban Sports Club membership discount
- Mobility benefit: monthly public transport (BVG) ticket fully covered by the company
- German language courses subsidised by the company
- We have a hybrid setup with office and work-from-home days so that we can foster a nice culture and in-person collaboration when needed
- Regular team events and offsites
Company values
- Thoughtful Communication: We meet when it matters and communicate clearly so everyone has space to do their best work
- Striving for Excellence: Good is not enough - to win we strive for excellence, continually raising the bar in any of our own and our teams work. Kittl results are great or excellent
- Never Settle - Let's Go: We are passionate about our work - which means on our way we never settle, always aiming for excellence that impresses everyone and we support each other to get there
- Enjoy the Ride: We take time to enjoy the ups and downs of our work, coming together to celebrate our shared achievements
- Celebrating Difference: We are our best when we have space to be ourselves, so we empower everyone to work on their own terms and value the unique perspective each of us brings
Company HQ
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Nicolas Heymann
(CEO)Previously founded Rawster Foods and Fitkit.
Tobias Saul
(CPO)Experienced designer.
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