Senior Full Stack Engineer, Community (Berlin, hybrid)

We’re in an exciting growth phase following our Series B funding and are expanding our team. Our hybrid working culture includes three office days per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) at our Berlin headquarters. Looking ahead, we’re also growing London as our second location, with a new office planned for 2025.

A little about us

• Redefining graphic design: Kittl is transforming how creators work with an intuitive platform that stands as a modern, competitive alternative to traditional design tools: Build the new Adobe of tomorrow.

• Rapid growth: Millions of users within just two years of launch

• Diverse team: 120+ team members representing 30+ different countries

• Truly product-led company: Engineers, Product managers and designers are at the core of Kittl - shaping an engineering driven working culture

• Strong funding: Raised over $45M from world-renowned investors who have also backed companies like Slack, Dropbox, and Figma

Learn more: www.kittl.com/career

Your role at Kittl

Join Kittl’s Product Community team—a cross-functional group of engineers, a product manager, designer, and data scientist—focused on scaling user-generated content to drive community-led growth.

In this role, you’ll build the products and systems that make it easy for designers to publish high-quality content, get discovered, and grow their presence on Kittl. You’ll work on features that boost content visibility, spotlight top creators, and reward quality contributions—laying the foundation for a vibrant, engaged creator ecosystem.

Beyond publishing, you’ll help develop tools that foster peer learning, feedback, and collaboration—so designers don’t just share their work on Kittl, they connect, grow professionally, and feel part of something bigger. Your work will shape how our community creates, interacts, and thrives.

What you'll do

• Produce high-quality results: You'll contribute heavily to large cross-functional projects that have a significant impact on the business

• Resolve production issues: You'll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging production issues

• Improve engineering standards: You'll improve tooling and processes

What you’ll need

• Experience: Minimum 6 years of professional development experience with a recent focus on TypeScript, React, and Node.js

• Testing: Strong proficiency with unit, integration and E2E testing

• Application state management: Expertise in complex state management

• ORM & SQL: Experience writing raw SQL, familiarity with ORM tools a plus

• Cloud: Knowledge of AWS, familiarity with static hosting platforms such as Vercel a plus

• CI/CD: Understanding of Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery processes

Interview process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)

• Technical take home assignment

• Technical interview (60 min)

• Interview with Director of Engineering (30 min)

• Interview with CTO (30 min)

• Bar raiser interview with Chief of Staff, right hand to CEO (45 min)

We are looking for someone

• Exceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quo

• Who takes extreme ownership & gets things done

• Who goes above and beyond in their role

Benefits

• Maximise your impact: No matter if you’re leading a team or you stand out by your domain expertise - all we care about is supporting you to maximise your own impact

• Hackathons: Our quarterly hackathons provide an environment to experiment with new concepts, push boundaries, and potentially deliver the next big thing.

• Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers together for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun

• Flexible working hours: Our core hours are 11am–5pm CET, leaving the rest of your schedule flexible to fit your style

• Remote work: Work up to 50 days (10 weeks) fully remote per year from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain our core hours

• Learning & development: Our L&D budget supports your professional growth

• Mobility benefit: We fully cover your monthly BVG public transport ticket

• Health and fitness: Urban Sports Club membership discount

• Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year

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🌈 At Kittl, we embrace diversity and value every team member's unique background, identity, and experience. We're all about respect, honesty, and inclusivity. Together, we create a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on this exciting journey of making our company and product even better!