Senior Backend Software Engineer, Storyteq
Node.js
Content marketing platform
Job no longer available
Content marketing platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To become the go-to marketing technology for brands around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading technical delivery within a team or project
- Confident in making architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs
- Comfortable mentoring and supporting engineers to help them grow
- 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering backend or full-stack products with TypeScript (and JavaScript)
- Strong backend development skills with Node.js
- Solid experience designing and integrating REST and/or GraphQL APIs
- Comfortable working in monorepo environments and modular architectures
- Proficient in data modeling and working with SQL/NoSQL databases
- Familiar with testing practices, performance tuning, and scalable design principles
- Experience working in SaaS or product-based environments
- You’re proactive, result-driven, and excited to work in a fast-growing tech scale-up
- You’re a strong team player who values collaboration and shared success
Desirable
- Hands-on with DAM concepts like versioning, metadata, and access control
- Designed or contributed to asset pipelines for processing, optimizing, and delivering media content
- Built systems for secure, performant asset access at scale
What the job involves
- You’ll likely join our Assets domain, where we’re scaling up to support a growing range of use cases—from intelligent asset search and real-time transformations to AI-powered tagging and seamless integration with our templating and distribution tools
- You’ll be the technical lead for a team focused on the backend services that power our DAM platform at scale, ensuring fast, reliable, and intelligent asset delivery across the ecosystem
- You’ll work closely with engineering peers, product managers, and architects to align on technical direction, drive implementation, and ensure high engineering standards
- While you’ll remain hands-on, a key part of your role will be guiding others through technical decisions, mentoring, and championing best practices
- Take ownership of technical direction and architecture within the team
- Build and ship robust backend services with real product impact
- Ensure backend systems are scalable, performant, and easy to maintain
- Guide engineers through technical decisions and mentor them in best practices
- Collaborate with other teams to integrate services and deliver end-to-end value
- Model business domains into clean, efficient data structures
- Lead by example in engineering excellence, pragmatism, and shared ownership
Our take
Digital marketing has evolved beyond web-based campaigns to encompass mobile devices and social media platforms. This shift necessitates consistent marketing across multiple channels, leading to an increased demand for diverse content and larger content creation teams.
Storyteq offers a cloud-based creative automation platform that enables digital marketing teams to automatically generate platform-specific content. By providing templates for consistent branding across various formats and platforms, Stroyteq allows brands to create omnichannel campaigns without expanding their creative teams.
Unlike many omnichannel marketing platforms that focus on inbound campaigns and advertisements, Storyteq specialises in content creation. Its generative and autonomous platform aims to reduce marketing costs, streamline workforces, and deliver consistently branded content across all channels.
Steph
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Insights
86% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2018
$0.9m
SEED
Jul 2017
$0.6m
SEED
Total funding: $1.5m
Company benefits
- 25 days annual leave: plus bank holidays.
- Annual Wellbeing Day: Enjoy an additional day on us to look after your phyiscal and mental wellbeing.
- Pension Scheme: helping you save towards your retirement home in the sun!
- Charity & Volunteering: From our donation matching scheme to a paid Volunteer Day each year, we're all about supporting great causes.
- Referral Scheme: Know the perfect person to join the team? You could get a bonus for putting a good word in.
- Cycle to Work Scheme: Save on the cost of biking to work.
Company HQ
Hoofddorppleinbuurt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Andrew Swinand
(CEO)Andrew is also the CEO of Inspired Thinking Group, Founder and Board Chair of Transparent, and Founder and Board Member at Abundant Venture Partners.
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