Senior Backend Engineer - CMS Tribe

✨ We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer into our CMS tribe! We are looking for 2x engineers to join our CMS tribe, 1x in the Content team and 1x in the Developer Experience team. We are the teams growing our CMS and making sure that Strapi continues to be the leading open-source headless CMS on the market . You will work closely with other engineers, engineering managers and product managers to grow our product and engineering capability. As a senior backend engineer, you will be focused on leading the design and delivery of enhancements, new features and tools for our CMS users and growing our engineering capabilities by sharing best practices and industry awareness. 🚀 About Us Strapi is a leading open-source Headless CMS that empowers developers and content creators to build, manage, and scale their digital experiences. Our mission is to make content management simpler, more flexible, and accessible for everyone. Join our innovative and collaborative team as we continue to grow and shape the future of digital content. 🔑 Key Responsibilities - Implementing the new features and tools - this could be building the latest enhancement to our Content Manager, designing a POC for our next developer tool or integrating AI into a core user flow - Making Strapi more stable and robust by writing effective code and tests - quality is integral to the longevity of Strapi; we're looking for people who find it as much of a non-negotiable as us - Collaborating with other developers, product designers, and product managers in all phases of product development - Finding solutions to solve users' issues using tenacious and creative problem solving skills, without reinventing the wheel - Reviewing PRs from and helping the community contributors to grow Strapi - Contributing to the roadmap with feedback, ideas and enthusiasm - Sharing your learning and experience to ensure everyone grows and improves 🌱 Who are you? - 4+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong background in Typescript and NodeJS - Fluent English - You are based within +/- 2 hours from the CET timezone (see below for limitations on location) - Experience creating and maintaining complex APIs, using REST and GraphQL - Comfortable with database configuration and data migration - A curious, versatile, and autonomous person with a passion for experimenting and introducing new ideas - Significant experience with web development and bringing high quality, well-tested software to production - Good understanding of developer experience tools, challenges and opportunities - Experience supporting other engineers' growth and a passion for sharing and mentoring - Experience working with Product Managers, through discovery and design phases of the software development cycle Bonus: Professional experience with a CMS (have built applications/websites using a well-known CMS) Bonus: Already contributing to/maintaining an open-source project with a community of users You don't need to check all the boxes to apply 🙏 please submit all applications and CVs in English - we are an international company and we work in English full time.

Strapi is a leading open-source Headless CMS that empowers developers and content creators to build, manage, and scale their digital experiences. Our mission is to make content management simpler, more flexible, and accessible for everyone.