Frontend Developer (m/w/d)

Piano Overview 

Piano’s Digital Experience Cloud empowers organizations to understand and influence customer behavior. By unifying customer data, analyzing behavior metrics and creating personalized customer journeys, Piano helps brands launch campaigns and products faster, strengthen customer engagement and drive personalization at scale from a single platform. Headquartered in Philadelphia with offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, Piano serves a global client base, including Air France, the BBC, CBS, Kirin Holdings, Jaguar Land Rover and more. Piano has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing, most innovative technology companies in the world by World Economic Forum, Red Herring, Inc. and Deloitte. For more information, visit piano.io. 

Position Overview 

We are looking for experienced frontend developers that can innovate rapidly in the changing landscape of social media and join our team in Berlin, where a hybrid setup is possible. 
 

This role has the following responsibilities 

• Develop and maintain intuitive user interfaces for our social media and analytics products 
• Rewrite existing applications, basing them on modern and homogeneous frameworks and technologies, and help maintain our legacy platform  
  
• Work with our product managers, designers, and our client success team on concepts for our future products, bringing them to life, first with prototypes, then as successful solutions 
  
• Together with our Backend Developers, work on software at scale. Our SocialFlow app is used by thousands of social media experts worldwide, our link resolver https://trib.al serves over a billion clicks per month, and our deamons send millions of posts out on social media per month for top publishers. 
   

We are looking for candidates with the following skills 

• At least 6 years of frontend development experience  
  4+ years experience with React 
  
• Experience writing TypeScript in production 
  
• Experience working with backend APIs in any language (Node.js/Ruby/Python/Perl/Go etc) 
  
• Ability to develop with a heterogeneous tech stack and experience in transitioning heterogeneous solutions into clean and homogeneous ones   
• Experience mentoring junior developers  
  
• Comfortable developing in the cloud (vim/emacs/etc)  
  
• Passion for building beautiful UIs 
  
• Fluent written and oral English is required 
  
• Good communication skills and experience in exchanging with fellow developers and other stakeholders, including product managers and management 
   

Experience with the following is a plus 

• Postgres  
  
• Redis  
  
• Backend development in general and with Python in particular, giving you the ability to help out with backend development topics if needed 
  
• Amazon services, including EC2, Kinesis and Lambda. 
  
• Working in a multinational setup and with team members in different locations 

Perks at Piano: 

• Exciting tasks and space for your ideas 
• Collaborative and agile working culture with direct communication 
• Vibrant team culture locally and globally 
• Additional benefits like stock options and job ticket sponsoring 
• Extra budget and 3 days of paid exemption for your personal development 
• Hybrid working model from our beautiful Berlin office located in Bergmann Kietz. 

Applicants for this position should have authorization to work in this jurisdiction without sponsorship from the Company.