Senior Backend Developer (m/f/d)

About Simpleshow

simpleshow started in 2008 as a media agency and has become the international market leader for the professional development of explainer videos. Using sophisticated storytelling methodology, the explanatory experts at simpleshow help make the increasingly complicated world understandable for everyone.

About the Role And Your Tasks

We are looking for a motivated Senior Backend Developer (m/f/d) to join us. As part of this amazing team, you will contribute to the advancement of the simpleshow video maker through your ideas and knowledge. If you are curious, adaptable, and genuinely passionate about your job, we would love to get to know you! You will join a relaxed and fun team that enjoys coding outside of the office and often meets for drinks after work. Working for the dev team of simpleshow video maker offers a great deal of freedom, allowing you to arrange your working hours to suit your needs and work remotely when necessary. Please note: While we offer a hybrid work setup, we expect team members to be present at our Berlin office up to three days per week for collaboration and team exchange.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop new features for simpleshow.com with your team
• Build a long‑term, scalable system in an agile environment
• Collaborate with Product Owner & QA to develop next‑generation packages
• Help shape our roadmap with your knowledge and ideas
• Drive technical improvements on architectural & structural levels
• Take initiative for new ideas and projects
• Act as a role model and mentor, sharing your backend expertise with the team

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience building scalable backend applications
• Hands‑on experience with AWS or other public clouds (deployment & configuration)
• Excellent Java (Java 11+) and Spring / Spring Boot (incl. Hibernate) skills
• Experience with MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis
• Excellent English communication skills
• Strong in architecture and design decisions (patterns, availability, scaling)
• Value clean, maintainable, extensible code and structured architecture
• High standards in code quality, reviews, testing, CI/CD processes
• Previous mentoring experience in backend technologies
• Familiar with agile work (Scrum)

Tech Stack

Backend: (Stackshare Backend)
Frontend: (Stackshare Frontend)

Benefits

• Fair & competitive salary you can count on.
• Company pension plan to invest in your future.
• Urban Sports Club membership & JobRad for a healthy balance (plus your company laptop, of course!).
• Open feedback culture & structured feedback system.
• Regular team events! We celebrate our successes together!
• Sabbatical options: taking a break is part of our culture.

If you’re looking for an exciting challenge in a growing company and want to celebrate success together, we look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, faith, ethnic origin, age, or sexual orientation.

We are always looking for new talent to join our team. Apply today!