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06.04.2025

Shape the Future of Digital Content as a Senior Full Stack Engineer with Contentful.

Play a pivotal role in shaping the future at Contentful, where we redefine how the world interacts with digital content. Our team plays a central role in crafting the core editorial workflows that power some of the world’s leading brands—enabling creators to plan, preview, and publish content with confidence. We build full-stack solutions that balance usability and scalability, giving teams the autonomy to deliver impactful experiences while working within a rich, modular platform.

If you’re driven by solving complex problems with clean, scalable architecture and excited to build intuitive tools that enhance real-world editorial workflows, you’ll thrive in our customer-centric, impact-focused environment. Join us to help shape the future of content creation in a world that’s moving fast toward personalization, collaboration, and AI-assisted publishing.

About the Opportunity

• Own and Drive Solutions: Autonomously solve customer problems by leading the design, development, and delivery of business critical features, navigating complex frontend and backend architecture using TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Take full accountability for solution success, from concept to release, embracing long-term ownership.
• Execute with an Entrepreneurial Spirit: Demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit by setting ambitious execution goals, leading through uncertainty, and adapting rapidly as you solve complex, undefined challenges. Lead initiatives with a clear sense of ownership, including managing timelines, communicating with stakeholders, and maintaining a balance between speed and quality.
• Lead Group Level Product Initiatives: Lead projects that span across multiple systems, influencing the broader product roadmap and collaborating effectively with other teams. Actively contribute to product-level vision discussions, sharing insights and aligning with company-wide goals.
• Collaborate and Delegate: Partner closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build best-in-class solutions for our customers. Bring a strong ability to delegate and guide other engineers to build their strengths while balancing delivery expectations.
• Communicate Complex Technical Concepts: Effectively communicate complex technical concepts, and proposals through briefs, RFCs, and architecture diagrams, ensuring clarity with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Design for Scale and Quality: Lead technical design decisions around new product features with scalability and maintainability top of mind. Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks and obstacles, ensuring solutions are robust and aligned with business needs.
• Drive Iterative Scope and Parallel Execution: Vertically slice large initiatives into iterations, organizing work to maximize parallel execution across the team for optimal lead time.
• Set and Steer the Architectural North Star: Lead defining the holistic architectural North Star for the product and systematically enable architectural pivots by attaching refactors to adjacent product deliverables.
• Experiment and Innovate with AI: Drive the integration of AI technologies into our platform, identifying opportunities for new features and leading green-field solution development in the AI space. Embrace an iterative and experimental mindset to chase moving targets effectively.

What you need to be successful

• Extensive Full Stack Expertise: Proven track record as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with substantial experience using TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
• Demonstrable Leadership: Proven experience in a senior role, such as a tech lead, performing the above responsibilities or similar, demonstrating ownership, urgency, and the ability to drive initiatives independently.
• Solid Background in Automated Testing: Including both unit and e2e tests, using frameworks like Jest & Cypress.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud Services Familiarity: Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Preferred

• Applied AI: Previous experience leading or being involved in AI-based feature development is highly appreciated.
• No-code tools: Prior experience building no-code tools.
• DevOps Mindset: Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
• Distributed Team Experience: Prior experience in remote work etiquette collaborating with distributed team members.
• Startup Experience: Prior early-stage startup experience is a huge plus.

What’s in it for you?

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences.
• Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company.
• Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
• We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days.
• Time off to care for and focus on your growing family.
• Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career.
• Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties.
• An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health.
• A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.