Backend Developer (m/w/d) in Pet Tech Startup

Daphnee is a pioneering digital platform dedicated to enhancing pet care by connecting pet owners and professionals. Our dual apps, Daphnee App for pet owners and Daphnee Pro for pet professionals, provide comprehensive solutions for efficient pet care management. With versatile features, Daphnee caters to diverse pet care scenarios while ensuring utmost data privacy compliance, making it the optimal choice for your pet care needs.

What you’ll be doing?

• You will be the leader of the Product & Engineering Team and contribute with your expertise to the continuous development of the product in an agile environment.


• You will take a main part in the product development. You will design and build a sophisticated and highly scalable cloud solution.


• You will discuss the requirements into a domain-driven software architecture.


• You are responsible for delivering high-quality code in cooperation with other developers.

All in all, you will develop and implement Daphnee’s SaaS technology platform, supporting our growth.

We’re looking for someone who has…

• a portfolio demonstrating 3 years of web application development experience


• high level of proficiency in building web applications based on NodeJS (NestJS), MongoDB, JavaScript and Typescript, RxJs


• working knowledge of contributing apps


• experience how to design backend services (REST APIs, JSON)


• experience with version control Git


• experience working with package managers (Yarn, NPM, etc)


• follow the main coding rules: DRY, KISS, etc.


• enthusiasm about building interactive visual experiences that harness the power of modern hardware

You get extra points if you have experience with:

• Developing software products in a cloud computing environment e.g. - GCP


• Microservice architectures


• CI/CD/DevOps/Kubernetes


• CSS Pre-Processors (Less/SASS)


• Typeform


• Firebase

As our company language is English, you should be fluent in English. Knowing German is a bonus.

• We aim to become one of the fastest-growing pet health startups in Europe. Our innovative services will revolutionize the life of pet owners and pet professionals.


• Build the base for our common goal together with you


• Learn and grow together with us beyond yourself


• Work with the latest hardware and tools


• A steep learning curve, flat hierarchies and flexible working hours


• Full remote work initially


• Many great corporate benefits


• And of course, cool team events