This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).
We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 70 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.
(€80K – €140K • Offers Equity)
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to help grow our AdTech platform. If you’re passionate about building scalable, high-performance web applications and enjoy collaborating across teams to serve millions of users, we’d love to hear from you.
Tech stack:
TypeScript, NestJS, Jest.
GraphQL, REST, gRPC, WebSockets.
MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, BigQuery.
RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub
Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD.
Datadog.
What You’ll Do 🎯
Develop clean, efficient, and scalable code using NestJS and TypeScript.
Create a data-driven product by integrating external services for A/B testing and feature flagging.
Deliver high-quality testable code at a high pace, making sure everything runs smoothly.
Using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) as part of your everyday toolkit — we actively encourage AI-assisted development.
What You’ll Bring 💡
Strong experience in web development.
A good understanding of scalable systems.
Production experience with most of our tech stack.
Ownership mindset: Take full ownership of your work.
Strong English communication skills for effective collaboration.
What Makes You a Great Fit 🌟
Experience working with microservices architecture.
Background in DevOps/SRE practices.
Why Almedia? 🎁
Own Our Growth: We offer all Berlin-based employees equity in Almedia to truly be a part of our success.
Scale With Almedia: Grow alongside a startup that has been profitable from day one.
Central Berlin Office: Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin.
Other Benefits: Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.
We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
Skills Required
- Strong experience in web development
- Good understanding of scalable systems and distributed architectures
- Production experience with TypeScript and NestJS
- Production experience with GraphQL, REST, gRPC, and WebSockets
- Production experience with MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and BigQuery
- Production experience with RabbitMQ and Google Pub/Sub
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI/CD
- Familiarity with Datadog and observability / monitoring practices
- Ownership mindset and ability to deliver high-quality, testable code at pace
- Strong English communication skills
- Experience working with microservices architecture
- Background in DevOps / SRE practices
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot)
What We Do
Freecash.com, owned by Almedia, helps you to advertise your app or digital products to a highly engaging target group. Almedia operates platforms that collectively have more than 25,000,000 members as their user base. Our mission is to help leading brands acquire new potential customers and obtain the most accurate insights. Among our main services is paid user acquisition, so we can supply any quantity of new users for any game, app, website, or other product. Our innovative, in-house engine provides marketers and agencies with many advanced features, helping them not only find answers to their business questions but also increase revenue and brand awareness. Our market research services deliver results faster and at a lower cost than traditional market research firms. In terms of key metrics such as engagement and quality of users, we consistently outperform the market. Our biggest platform today is called Freecash. Since its launch in 2020, Freecash has been one of the fastest-growing platforms that allow users to test a wide range of products, apps, websites, games, etc., and get rewarded. Within 4 years our users have already earned over $57.000.000. With more than 15M registered users and 1M active users monthly we're already a leader in the market. Very good 4.6 * TrustPilot rating with over 70.000 reviews, proves that our platform performs very well. Freecash platform is incessantly modernized and developed. To meet the needs of advertisers, we are constantly adding new features and improving our platform. Feel free to contact and join us!
