Jobs at Blackbird Collective

Develop and maintain marketplace features using JavaScript, React, and Meteor while helping transition to a TypeScript-based architecture. Responsibilities include code reviews, refactoring, automated unit and integration testing, architecture and process improvements, and collaboration with team members.

Own and evolve mission-critical AWS application infrastructure using Nginx, PHP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and related systems. Plan and deliver infrastructure projects, optimize architecture, ensure availability and reliability, proactively resolve incidents, and implement testing, monitoring, and resilience improvements. Collaborate closely with teammates through task sharing and pairing, while adopting and improving engineering conventions and best practices.

Develop production-grade backend software within startup engineering teams. Responsibilities include writing clean, maintainable, functional, and testable code, collaborating in international teams, and potentially working with Java, Kotlin, AWS, Serverless, Terraform, FaunaDB, and Redshift.

Develop and support backend applications for innovative startups. Responsibilities include Ruby backend development, automated testing, RESTful and ORM-based application design, MVC development, collaboration in agile teams, and potentially monitoring system performance, managing cloud infrastructure, working with SQL and NoSQL databases, and supporting scalable service-oriented architectures.

Support startup engineering teams as a front-end developer, building and maintaining applications with modern JavaScript frameworks and RESTful APIs. The role requires at least three years of professional front-end development experience, English proficiency, and agile methodology experience. Knowledge of databases, automated testing, and TypeScript is beneficial. Positions are primarily with innovative startups in Berlin and involve work within international teams.

Lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for product development and maintenance. Manage performance, coach team members, support career development and recruitment, oversee code reviews and coding standards, facilitate technical planning, break features into technical tasks, coordinate workflow, and collaborate closely with product owners, designers, and software engineers. Candidates may specialize in front-end or back-end development.