Junior Full Stack Software Engineer, Leapsome
+ Pre-IPO equity package
Performance management platform
Open for applications
Performance management platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Pre-IPO equity package
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make work more fulfilling for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Are you a passionate developer at the start of your career, looking for a role that combines learning, hands-on development, and meaningful contributions?
- Are a recent graduate or have up to 2 years of experience in software development and are eager to kickstart your career in a collaborative environment
- Are passionate about quality and excited to learn through a hands-on focus on testing and automation
- Have some experience with programming languages like JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks such as Node.js or React/Vue.js
- Are curious and proactive, with a desire to understand complex systems and improve them
- Value pragmatic excellence, balancing learning with contributing to meaningful work
- Are excited to grow into a versatile full-stack engineer, starting with QA and gradually taking on more responsibilities in development
- Enjoy working closely with teammates, seeking mentorship, and contributing to a supportive, collaborative team culture
What the job involves
- At Leapsome, we believe that junior engineers are critical contributors, not just learners
- This position provides a unique opportunity to contribute meaningfully from day one while building the skills and experience needed to grow into a versatile full-stack engineer
- In this role, you’ll dive into our engineering and quality processes, starting with a strong focus on testing and automation to build a solid foundation in how our platform works
- You’ll support our quality initiatives by designing and implementing automated tests, assisting with manual release testing, and addressing bugs or customer-reported issues
- Over time, you’ll expand your responsibilities to include feature development, resolving customer issues, and contributing to cross-functional projects
- This is not a "sink or swim" environment. You’ll receive mentorship, access to cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to experiment and learn in a supportive setting and with very experienced peers
- You’ll actively contribute to ensuring quality and reliability while learning the intricacies of a scalable, innovative platform. If you’re passionate about quality, curious about solving complex problems, and excited to grow your career in engineering, this role is for you
- Collaborate with the QA and engineering teams to design and implement automated tests, including E2E, unit, and integration tests, using tools like Playwright, Vitest and Mocha/Chai
- Support manual testing during scheduled release cycles, ensuring features meet our high-quality standards
- Investigate and resolve bugs and customer-reported issues, deepening your understanding of the platform’s architecture and workflows
- Contribute to the automation and streamlining of quality processes, leveraging innovative approaches like AI-driven testing
- Develop smaller features and improvements, gradually building your full-stack development skills with mentorship from experienced engineers
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, adhering to our standards for quality and performance
- Gain hands-on experience with processes and workflows in a product engineering scaleup, learning how cross-functional teams collaborate to deliver high-quality features efficiently
- Participate in code reviews, learning best practices and contributing your insights to improve team workflows
Application process
- Just send us your CV. You won't need to input any information already mentioned on your CV later on - promise! 🤙
- A cover letter isn’t necessary, but we’d really appreciate a brief answer to these questions: Why Leapsome? Why you?
- We look forward to getting to know you!
Our take
Berlin-founded, New York-based Leapsome is a ‘people enablement’ platform that works to improve employee performance and satisfaction through various methods from feedback and OKRs to employee engagement and corporate learning options.
Recognising the amount of time a person will spend in a work environment, the company aims to help employees grow and develop in this time, whilst boosting a company’s efficiency and productivity. Over a relatively short time, it has amounted trust and respect within the industry.
The company has now accrued over one thousand customers across Europe, U.S, Asia and Australia, including impressive clients such as Spotify and Merecedes-Benz. Leapsome has also raised considerable funding towards accelerating its US market presence whilst continuing to develop new products and features.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2022
$60m
SERIES A
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- Become part of a fast-growing scale-up taking over the People Performance & Enablement space by making work fulfilling for more than two million people by 2025
- Join a diverse and international team of talented, smart, and kind people
- We value feedback exchange and celebrating successes — big and small
- Enjoy our hybrid model by working from home or in our offices in the heart of Berlin, Germany
- Develop your skills with a yearly development budget of €2,000
- Experience a healthy work-life balance with flexible work hours and the option of working abroad for up to 2 months per year
- Have fun at monthly team activities like kayaking, laser tag, and game nights
- Stay active and healthy with a free Urban Sports Club membership
- Take 30 vacation days every year (plus public holidays)
- Receive competitive pay and a pre-IPO equity package
- Get support and sponsorship for relocation (if needed)
Company values
- Listen & learn - We always seek understanding. It helps us grow together and learn from each other — as well as from our customers and partners
- Challenge the status quo - We challenge ourselves and don’t walk the beaten path just because everyone else does. Instead, we reflect and seek out better ways.
- Take ownership & pursue excellence - We’re a group of smart and dedicated people, and we trust each other to truly own our work. We’re not afraid of high expectations
- Seek impact - What brought us together was the desire to make work fulfilling for everyone. We’re like-minded in that we hold ourselves accountable for the impact we want to have in this world
- Be honest & transparent - We’re honest and transparent with each other and ourselves. We want to get to the core of it, always. We trust each other to handle all shared information with care
- Be kind & humble - We are more than just colleagues — we genuinely care for each other. We give each team member the appreciation they deserve and the support they need. We have no interest in serving our egos
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jenny von Podewils
(Co-CEO)Previously co-founded udexter and has served as Advisor to the CEO for DIE ZEIT.
Kajetan von Armansperg
(Co-CEO)Previously co-founded Alive and served as Vice President of Product for Zencap.
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