Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Strapi's Developer Experience team as a Backend Engineer to enhance their CMS and maintain its position as a leading open-source headless CMS. Collaborate with engineers, managers, and product managers to improve the product and engineering capabilities. Focus on delivering enhancements to the developer experience, implementing best practices, and contributing to the roadmap. The role involves implementing new features and tools, improving stability and robustness, collaborating with other developers, solving user issues, reviewing PRs, and sharing knowledge. Strapi offers flexible working hours, remote work, equity, a remote setup budget, co-working space rental budget, hardware and software coverage, professional development opportunities, mental health support, expanded health benefits, a referral program, paid time off, emergency days, and parental leave.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong background in Typescript and NodeJS
• Fluent English
• You are based within +/- 2 hours from the CET timezone (see below for limitations on location)
• Experience creating and maintaining complex APIs, using REST and GraphQL
• Comfortable with database configuration and data migration
• A curious, versatile, and autonomous person with a passion for experimenting and introducing new ideas
• Significant experience with web development and bringing high quality, well-tested software to production
• Good understanding of developer experience tools, challenges and opportunities
• Experience supporting other engineers' growth and a passion for sharing and mentoring
• Experience working with Product Managers, through discovery and design phases of the software development cycle

Responsibilities

• Implementing the new features and tools - this could be migrating a core feature to Typescript, building the latest enhancement or designing a POC of our next developer tool
• Making Strapi more stable and robust by writing effective code and tests - quality is integral to the longevity of Strapi; we're looking for people who find it as much of a non-negotiable as us
• Collaborating with other developers, product designers, and product managers in all phases of product development
• Finding solutions to solve users' issues using tenacious and creative problem solving skills, without reinventing the wheel
• Reviewing PRs from and helping the community contributors to grow Strapi
• Contributing to the roadmap with feedback, ideas and dedication
• Sharing your learning and experience to ensure everyone grows and improves

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional experience with a CMS (have built applications/websites using a well-known CMS)
• Already contributing to/maintaining an open-source project with a community of users

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Work from anywhere: we're a remote-first company, so we can work wherever home (or WiFi!) is
• Equity for everyone: we win together. On top of a competitive salary, every Strapier has equity that grows with you in the company
• Remote setup budget: until $1,000 per year, equivalent to having a great work-from-home setup (desk, light, office chair, etc.)
• Co-working space rental budget: until $500 per month when you need it
• You'll always be up to date: we cover all hardware and software needed, so you’re always with the latest versions
• Grow as you are: from day one, we provide budget and tools to learn and grow both professionally and personally
• Annual onsite: we all gather physically once a year
• Mental health support: we offer Moka.care one-on-one sessions with certified specialists
• Expanded health benefits: including premium medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Referral program: $1500 if your recommendation gets hired
• 5 weeks of paid time off (if your country has a more advantageous PTO duration, the specific law will apply)
• Emergency days: 5 days a year for difficult and unexpected situations with no need to provide any proof of justification
• Parents on a mission: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave after a year at Strapi