Your mission

About

You’ll be passionate about product and user experience – customers are at the heart of what you do and that empathy drives your decision. Specifically within your role, you will:

Implement End-to-End automations for internal and external traders
Develop awesome front- and backend services with cutting-edge technology
Design and build data processing pipelines
Write clear, maintainable and reusable code and take part in code reviews to ensure that features are developed at high quality standards
Take part in software design discussions to translate user requirements into new, valuable product features
Participate in technical discussions and architecture decisions within the team
Work in a cross disciplined agile team with shared responsibility and high autonomy

Your profile

Strong experience in full-stack development of robust and reusable code, especially experience with NodeJS, JavaScript (including React.js)
Commercial experience with NodeJS frameworks, like NestJS
Commercial experience and expertise in building REST APIs
Expertise in designing performant and normalized database models
Practical experience with Kubernetes platforms, Docker, Git and CI/CD systems
Experience working with cloud providers (AWS/GCP) and their services (e.g. GCP Function, AWS Lambda)
Experience working with agile software methodologies (e.g. Scrum)
Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Mathematics
High coding standards (Design Patterns, TDD, Clean Code) & amazing debugging skills
Strong understanding of different software development practices, infrastructure, and how each can help bring more value to customers
Self-starter, able to deliver projects on time meeting high quality standards.
Strong analytical and critical thinking
Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and confidence in presenting ideas and findings to stakeholders with the right level of detail
Proficiency in English
Experience with service oriented architecture (microservices) (nice to have)
Experience working with the Identity Providers (Auth0, Okta), OpenID Connect (nice to have)
Familiarity with GoLang (nice to have)

Why us?

Ownership of projects with a focus on outcomes rather than time-tracking
Fast-paced yet collaborative culture fostering individual performance and teamwork
Competitive compensation based on experience
Hybrid work format
Beautiful office located in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
Regular team building events and company breakfasts
Urban Sports Club membership or BVG Ticket subsidized

About Us

We are a Berlin-based start-up that has successfully established a leading B2B marketplace for industrial metals across Europe.

The multi-billion-euro metal trading industry is operated on Excel, PDF and Email. We are on a mission to transform buying and selling in one of the oldest industries of the modern world with seamless and intuitive digital solutions. Our technologies increase liquidity, accelerate transactions, reduce scrapping rates and enhance buying convenience for hundreds of steel and metal distributors across Europe.

As a lean team of young, international, and passionate talents, we've recently reached breakeven and are gearing up for the next phase of growth. We are looking for an outstanding individual who wants to join an exciting early stage start-up.

Vanilla Steel

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