We are digitalising one of Europe’s largest and most heavily regulated industries.
The packaging industry has a market volume of several hundred billion euros and is under enormous pressure to act due to new regulations such as PPWR, EPR and EUDR.
With Packa, we have built the first end-to-end SaaS platform for intelligent packaging management – in high demand, well-funded and growing fast.
What you can expact at Packa
- Creative freedom: You work directly with Packa’s leadership team – with real impact from day one.
- Ownership: You’ll be part of a highly motivated, diverse and successful team with a high degree of freedom and responsibility from the start.
- Hybrid work: You work from a great office in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
- Leadership: You work in a company with an inspiring vision, led by an experienced founding team and backed by leading investors.
- Recognition and commitment: We believe in fair compensation and offer a clear growth path with real development opportunities.
Your responsibilities
- Own technical projects end to end. You frame the problem, design the solution, lead implementation and rollout, and stay accountable for how it runs in production.
- Shape technical design decisions. You work on feature-level architecture as well as topics that affect the whole system, such as data models, API design and tooling.
- Build solutions around user needs. You work closely with Product, Design and Business to shape the right solution. When you see a better way, you question the original requirement.
- Find the problems nobody has ticketed yet. You spot hidden risks and tech debt early, make the case for fixing them and help set priorities.
- Raise the bar around you. You give code reviews that teach, pair program and mentor mid-level engineers.
- Help us grow the team. You take part in hiring, both technical interviews and conversations about collaboration and team fit.
What you bring
- Proven production experience. You have 5+ years of experience building and running production software, ideally at a growing SaaS company. You've built features and also supported them live.
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills. Our backend runs on NestJS and our frontend on React. You're strong in one and comfortable working in the other.
- API and system design that holds up. You've designed APIs and system boundaries that held up under real usage, and you can explain what you would do differently today.
- Ownership beyond the code. For you, deployment, testing, CI/CD and observability are part of the product, not an afterthought.
- A track record of mentoring. You've mentored engineers and can name people who got better because of you.
- Self-awareness. You know your strengths and use them on purpose. When it makes sense, you ask for support early instead of staying stuck.
- Pragmatic and product-minded. You work in a practical, solution-focused way and keep the product vision in mind. You ask "why" before you jump to "how".
- Fluent English. German is a plus.
Skills Required
- 5-6+ years of software development experience
- Experience in scaling SaaS products and supporting production systems
- Solid skills in TypeScript
- Solid skills in Node.js
- Experience with NestJS (backend)
- Good understanding of modern frontend technologies such as React
- Experience building modern APIs
- Experience with system architecture and data modeling
- Familiarity with deployment, testing, and CI/CD processes
- Fluent English
- German language skills
What We Do
Packmatic is the leading digital purchasing platform for customized packaging in Europe and brings more transparency and efficiency to the 160 billion packaging market. More than 200 customers (leading FMCG, industrial and e-commerce companies) use Packmatic to achieve savings potentials of 16% on average and to optimize their packaging according to current sustainability standards. Among the customers are well-known brand manufacturers as well as international retailers - including Zalando, YFOOD, CoffeeCircle, Lebensbaum, Pickerd, EGLO, Asphaltgold, and many more. With more than 350 affiliated packaging suppliers, Packmatic has access to the largest supplier network in Europe and can access suppliers' machinery within a few clicks using its proprietary Smart Matching technology. In addition to cost pressure, our customers are increasingly faced with the challenge of meeting stricter requirements in terms of recyclability, supply chain transparency and CO2 reduction. Packmatic provides support here thanks to smart features and deep sustainability expertise, ensuring their customers’ continued success in the future. Learn more by filling out the form on this page, or by contacting us directly: [email protected] www.packmatic.io
