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Senior Backend Engineer - Europe

Storyblok

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Posted over 30 days ago...

Exciting opportunity as a Senior Backend Engineer at Storyblok - an innovative and global enterprise-ready headless CMS.

Overview

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Remote Europe

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Storyblok is an enterprise-grade headless CMS trusted by global brands like Oatly, Virgin Media O2, Deliveroo, and Renault. We empower developers and marketers to bring ideas to market faster by streamlining the entire content lifecycle.

Role Summary

  • Design, develop, and maintain Storyblok's flagship CMS platform.
  • Work with product owners, designers, and developers to implement scalable backend solutions.
  • Drive next generation customer-facing products and features.
  • Optimize our APIs and queries with Postgres for improved performance.
  • Continuously test, optimize and update our application for security, performance and reliability.

Role Requirements

  • Minimum 7 years relevant experience as a Backend Engineer.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Expertise in Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of testing tools such as RSpec and design patterns.

Application Process Details

  • We offer a remote work stipend, home office equipment, sick leave benefit, parental leave, annual leave, personal development fund, stock options, team-building trips, and regular online get-togethers.

Storyblok is the enterprise-ready headless CMS that empowers developers and marketers to bring ideas to market faster. It supports the entire content lifecycle—from creation and management to delivery—streamlining workflows, boosting productivity, and ensuring exceptional performance and accessibility. Storyblok frees you from the pain of legacy CMS platforms and empowers your teams to ship content quickly and build with complete flexibility. Designed for global scalability and secure collaboration, Storyblok enables teams to deliver seamless, engaging digital experiences at scale. Trusted by leading brands like Oatly, Virgin Media O2, Deliveroo, Renault, and Education First, Storyblok helps businesses of all sizes unlock new opportunities, channels, and markets—delivering a bigger, faster market impact.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining our flagship CMS platform, enabling businesses to create and deliver seamless digital content experiences. You will work closely with product owners, designers, and fellow developers to implement scalable server-side solutions, ensuring high performance and reliability. If you have a strong background in backend development, expertise in Ruby on Rails , and a passion for solving complex technical challenges, we’d love to hear from you.

You will be responsible for driving the next generation of Storyblok’s customer-facing products and features by building scalable and reliable backend systems with Ruby on Rails. You will also contribute to improved performance of our APIs and optimize queries with Postgres. You will implement automated testing integrated into our development and maintenance workflows and test, optimize and update our application for security, performance and reliability on a continuous basis.

You should have a minimum of 7+ years of relevant experience as a Backend Engineer and a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field. You should have comprehensive knowledge developing APIs with Ruby on Rails and working knowledge of PostgreSQL. You should also have comprehensive knowledge of testing tools based on behavior-driven development such as RSpec and comprehensive knowledge of design patterns and development best practices.

We offer a monthly remote work stipend (home internet costs, electricity), home office equipment package right at the start (laptop, keyboard, monitor…), home office equipment upgrade (furniture, ear plugs …) or membership to a local co-working space after your onboarding, sick leave benefit, parental leave and 25 days of annual leave plus your local national holidays, personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and material, VSOP (Virtual Stock Option Plan), the annual international team-building trip, quarterly and monthly online get-togethers, and an international team that loves to have fun at work and works hard together to accomplish shared goals.

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