Senior Backend Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Berlin

Your mission

CleanHub harnesses the power of tech to address one of the world's most pressing issues: ocean plastic.

Our lightweight platform enables effective waste management systems to be set up quickly in the coastal areas where they're needed most. Through our app, we track and trace the entire logistics chain to provide digital evidence for every kg of plastic that did not end up in our oceans. Check out our live dashboard

You will be joining CleanHub at a critical and exciting time. So far we financed the collection of 6’000’000kg (equivalent to 600 million soda bottles) of ocean bound plastic - now it’s time to scale the impact.

We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer to help us shape the data structures and APIs which will enable the traceability of ocean-bound plastic.  

In this role, you will work closely with the CTO and you will also be part of a cross-functional squad that includes engineering, data science and product.  Moreover, you will also interact with the operational team on the ground to always have the complete picture required to design the CleanHub traceability standard.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Be a key part of the entire development lifecycle from requirements to deployment and running the APIs and services in production

  • Develop integrations with external services / APIs

  • Work closely with product management to improve the solutions

  • Provide help with front-end tasks, when needed

  • Improve the robustness and reliability of the codebase

  • Help to refine & extend our architecture

  • Deploy and maintain production services

Your profile
  • 3+ years overall professional development experience in Java

  • Experience with Spring / Spring Boot (or similar frameworks)

  • Excellent knowledge of relational databases and domain modeling

  • Significant experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs

  • Good understanding of microservices architectural patterns, design patterns & production troubleshooting methods

  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud services (AWS)

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code is a plus

  • Experience with one of the modern front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js) is a plus

  • Have a compelling reason why ocean protection is important to you

  • Focused, driven, and know how to get the projects across the finish line

  • Work independently and take responsibility and ownership of your work

  • Passion for clean and beautiful code with an eye for simplicity and pragmatism

  • Empathetic, humble and always ready to help your teammates

  • Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

Why us?

Join our impact-driven team to build software that can yet save our oceans.

  • The chance to leave a mark and personally impact an early-stage startup: you will work directly with the founders on a disruptive product in a market set for exponential growth

  • As one of the first backend engineers you have the chance to contribute to shaping the architecture of the CleanHub tech ecosystem

  • Opportunities to learn and experiment are part of the job

  • We encourage ownership and open communication so that everybody feels engaged in the dynamic of the group

We offer competitive salaries and equity packages. We are an equal-opportunity employer and value broad diversity. We consider all applications equally. We will not react to outreach from design or recruiting agencies, freelance is not an option.


About us
CleanHub uses the power of software to reduce ocean-bound plastic by 50% before 2030. We build digital tools to track and scale plastic collection in coastal regions around the world. CleanHub partners with sustainable consumer brands to finance the collection of ocean-bound plastic with every product they sell. Read more about us on our website.
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