Senior Product Engineer (prospective Tech Lead)

• Location: Berlin, Germany (On-Site)*
• Contract Type: Full Time
• Start Date: ASAP

We are seeking a highly proactive and product-minded Senior Full Stack Engineer.

You should thrive in a high-energy, demanding, and fast-paced environment and ideally have substantial hands-on experience with our tech stack, including Node.js, TypeScript and SQL.

Besides that, connecting with others comes naturally to you and you are looking for an opportunity to take on a lot of ownership rapidly. This could be spearheading a new product initiative, mentoring and leading more junior team members or noticing that our release process could be improved and then owning its improvement.

Why Kombo

Kombo is an early-stage startup in the best sense of the word. We started Kombo in the Summer of 2022 when we were accepted into Y-Combinator and we rapidly grew from just four founders to 12 people and 100+ customers in less than 12 months after founding.

Your work will significantly impact our tech product used by CTOs and engineering teams, and the whole team will celebrate your wins. You will work with a modern, yet robust, tech stack and we encourage you to keep up to date and bring new additions to the stack. With new challenges (we're looking to 2.5-3x the team next year!), you're assured of growth and progress.

In addition, we offer highly competitive salaries, shares in the company, and a supportive community. We're serious about good communication and eliminating frustrating politics.

Key Responsibilities

• Own full-stack product initiatives
• Integrate various third-party providers
• Improve the company culture with insights and experience
• Participate in crucial product decisions
• Mentor more junior team members
• Contribute to tech infrastructure (optional)

What you bring

On a high level, we are looking for entrepreneurial people that are at the top-of-their-game. People at Kombo come from Harvard, Oxford, CODE etc., 50% are ex-founders themselves and in general have always done hard, impressive things. Specifically for this role, we are looking for the following skills:

• Expertise in designing B2B Software applications
• Ideally 5+ years of software development experience
• Proficiency or capacity to learn our tech stack: Node.js, React, Postgres, Prisma, TypeScript
• Enthusiastic and collaborative work attitude
• Previous experience leading a team is a plus!
• Previous founding experience is a plus!

KOMBO IS NOT FOR YOU IF

• Your preferred work environment consists primarily of remote work/home office
• You're in search of a more laid-back, less demanding workplace
• You are a beginner and in need of extensive training and support

That said, we encourage all interested candidates who want to be part of building something big to apply.

Equal Opportunity

Kombo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in thriving for excellence with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status or disability status. We believe that our work is better and our culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented at Kombo.

*Disclaimer We can only relocate candidates who are in the EU.

We usually have four steps + reference calls:

• Phone screen (could we be a good fit?)

• Technical screen (what would it be like to work with you?)

• Lunch - close to the office (get-to-know on a more personal level)

• Paid On-site (what would it be like to work together?)

In more detail:

Phone Screen

This stage is a more informal call to get to know more about the role, and for you to evaluate whether it’s a good fit for you. We are looking for people with a strong interest in startups; this is usually exhibited by past experience working at or starting one yourself.

Technical screen

We ask you to present a past project you've worked on - we describe this in more detail here: https://www.notion.so/kombo-api/Tech-Interview-with-Kombo-baa7e0973bee4b1e82b52d9910c7952c?pvs=4.

Lunch

This is more casual and we usually visit the office afterward. We get to know each other on a more personal level and we discuss the role more in-depth. We also have a lot of time for questions from your side.

On-Site

We work on a project in our code base together, to emulate actually working together as close as possible.