Job description
Description
How You Will Make an Impact
As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping and scaling our product. You’ll drive feature development, contribute to architectural decisions, and continually elevate the performance, reliability, and quality of our platform. Your expertise will help us deliver a world-class user experience and strengthen our engineering culture.
Our tech stack
TypeScript, Node.js, React, Golang, PSQL
GraphQL, REST
Pulumi, AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare, Fastly, New Relic, GitHub Actions
Some of your tasks and responsibilities:
Collaborate in a cross-functional, autonomous team to deliver impactful features and continuous improvements.
Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and performant solutions.
Proactively identify and address performance, scalability, and testability challenges.
Contribute to key architectural decisions to ensure a robust and future-proof system.
Share your ideas and technical insights to influence our product and engineering direction.
Foster a culture of growth, quality, and innovation by mentoring others and continuously learning.
Expectations timeline
1 Month
You’ll complete onboarding sessions covering our product, tech stack, infrastructure, and vision. You’ll meet team members from across the company through structured introductions and virtual events, and begin contributing to our codebase.
3 Months
You will be familiar with most concepts related to our product and have worked alongside your teammates to deliver features and improvements on production successfully.
You’d have had a few 1:1s with your team lead to check in on how things are going, you would have participated in some Engineering Guild sessions, and collaborated with fellow engineers to improve our architecture and developer experience.
6 Months
By now, you’ll be making significant contributions to the product and codebase. You’ll bring fresh perspectives from your previous experience and help raise the bar across performance, architecture, and team practices.
Requirements
Requirements
What we expect from you:
6+ years of hands-on experience in full-stack development using JavaScript/TypeScript, with strong backend expertise (ideally Node.js).
Experience building user interfaces, ideally using React.
Experience developing robust, well-tested APIs (GraphQL and/or REST).
Deep understanding of backend systems architecture, scalability, and performance.
Solid knowledge of relational databases (especially PostgreSQL), including schema design, indexing, and query optimization.
Exposure to (or enthusiasm for learning) Golang.
Commitment to writing clean, testable, and maintainable code.
Strong skills in technical design, problem-solving, and translating business needs into scalable solutions.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a growth mindset and openness to feedback.
Proven track record of driving technical and process improvements that positively impact team and product quality.
Bonus points:
Experience with GraphQL and Golang
Familiarity with cloud-native development (e.g., AWS, GCP)
Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Pulumi, Terraform)
Experience with monitoring and observability tooling
Knowledge of Docker and containerized applications
The Process
Intro call with People Team
Hiring Manager Intro
Technical interview
Team Fit call and Reference check.
Job Offer.
The response time after application, screening applications, and setting up the first intro call is usually within 1-2 weeks. You could expect some alterations when necessary.
About us
Hygraph is a dynamic Berlin-based startup that, in its recent round, raised $35M in funding. Driven by our core values of innovation, reliability, empowerment, agility, and scalability, Hygraph empowers thousands of developers and content teams to create dynamic digital experiences that engage their customers effortlessly. At Hygraph,we’re building a Headless Content Management system (CMS) that provides a flexible and scalable platform for managing and delivering content across various platforms seamlessly. We are trusted to manage content for teams from over 50,000 organizations like Dr. Oetker, Shure, Samsung, Ashley Furniture, Telenor, Philips, and Gamescom.
You will be part of a remote-first and globally distributed team who are committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately. We are an international and friendly team spread across 20 countries. We believe in a remote-first approach where everyone is encouraged to do their best from wherever they are and work together with transparency, accountability, and ownership. We learn continuously through feedback and have a yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences.
Hygraph is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace’s productivity and promote innovation and creativity.
