Senior Software Engineer - TypeScript

About the Role

At Prisma, we are dedicated to building the data layer for modern applications. If you are fascinated by the leading-edge architecture and technology used in today's data-intensive, highly scalable software systems, with distributed graph data on a massive scale, but you want the energy, challenges, and freedom that come with working in a small startup, then a job at Prisma might be for you.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Software Engineer focused on TypeScript, you will be a key member of our team responsible for the most cutting-edge data layer products including Accelerate & Pulse offered on the Prisma Data Platform. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Building services, APIs, and integrations to power the Prisma Data Platform ensuring high quality with your attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborating with other engineers on the system's architecture and implementation.
• Maintaining and improving CI, infrastructure automation, background jobs, and testing.
• Creating well-tested, type safe code that is easy to understand and contribute to.

Technologies You Will Work With

• Cloudflare, AWS, Serverless & Edge Computing
• TypeScript, Node.js, Rust (optional)
• Prisma, PostgreSQL
• GraphQL, Nexus, Relay
• GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Candidate Profile

We believe the right candidate for this position will meet quite a few of the criteria below. If you don't fit the description perfectly, we'd still love to hear from you. We expect you to learn some of these on the job:

• 4+ Years experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on back end development, integration of 3rd party services, and API design.
• Fluent in TypeScript or experience with types in another language.
• Experience with microservices or service oriented architectures.
• Comfortable orchestrating, integrating, and automating to achieve reliable, performant, and observable distributed systems.
• Passion, curiosity, and knowledge of system design, security, and automation.
• You have a product mindset or have built SaaS products in the past.
• You can communicate fluently in English and can express your thoughts clearly in writing.
• You enjoy working closely with your peers and proactively seek to help others.
• You seek feedback early and often and are not afraid to ask for help.

What's it like to work at Prisma?

You're likely to be a great fit for the team if you ...

• ... have an ownership mindset. As part of a young startup, you'll have an outsize impact on decisions and the way things are executed.
• ... stay nimble. As a growing startup, the team and strategy evolves quickly. Be ready to re-calibrate often and stay flexible.
• ... be kind and collaborative. Come in ready to share your ideas and listen to feedback.

Remote Work

We are a remote-first organisation with an office based in Berlin, Germany. Whether you would like to work remotely, or from the office in Berlin is up to you! We are open to discussing relocation assistance if you would like to join us in Berlin.

To ensure effective collaboration we can currently only accept candidates within the timezone GMT -5 to GMT +3.