Full Stack Engineer (Frontend Focus)

At Brandback, we’re on a mission to redefine shopping with AI. Founded by experienced operators and backed by top tier investors and angels from the retail industry, we have gone from strength to strength since launching our product last year.

Location: Berlin, Germany, office-first 4 days / week

Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior-Level

We are looking for a product-minded Full Stack Engineer focusing on Frontend to join our growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for building and optimizing user experiences, ensuring our app is fast, intuitive, and visually compelling. You will work closely with designers, product managers, and the rest of the engineering team to bring features to life and define the future of our frontend architecture.

This role offers the opportunity to work with modern technologies, drive best practices, and shape the engineering culture in a rapidly scaling company.

Tasks

What you will be doing

• Building the Brandback app - you will redefine how customers interact with a shopping app in the age of AI
• Developing and shipping high-quality, user-centric frontend experiences in TypeScript, React, and Web Components.
• Defining and improving our frontend architecture, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Collaborating with designers and product teams to implement beautiful, highly functional UI/UX.
• Collaborating with AI engineers to integrate recommendation engines and personalised content into the frontend experience
• Writing clean, reusable, and well-tested code, enforcing best practices across the codebase.
• Driving innovation, researching and implementing new tools, frameworks, or methodologies to improve our frontend.
• Mentoring and leading other engineers as the team grows, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Our tech stack

• Node.js, Python
• TypeScript, React, Web components
• GCP
• Github
• Cursor or another AI assistant of your choice

Requirements

Must have

• Strong experience with React, TypeScript, and modern frontend development. Showcase it with projects that you worked on.
• Product mindset, striving to understand the users and how to deliver best experience for them
• Deep understanding of frontend performance optimisation, browser rendering, and responsive design.
• Experience building scalable frontend architectures in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with designers, product managers, and backend engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience in an early-stage startup environment.
• Experience working on eCommerce or AI-driven products.

Benefits

Our offer

• Impact: Your work will directly shape our product and contribute to our mission to change a the way people shop
• Growth: As one of the first 15 FTEs you will work directly with the founders, benefitting from rapid personal growth and potential step changes in your career progression
• Culture: An ambitious, creative, and collaborative team environment
• Equity: Outsized stock options to share in the company’s success