Junior Backend Engineer - Analytics Product

Haiilo is a leading employee communications and engagement platform that empowers companies to foster a more connected, engaged, and aligned workforce. Our solutions enable businesses to streamline internal communications, enhance employee advocacy, and boost overall company culture. We make it easy for over 1000 organisations to share important information, measure engagement, and amplify employee voices.

You’ve already dipped your toes into backend development — maybe during your first full-time job, internship, or uni assignment — and now you're looking for your first and next real challenge in the tech world? Perfect.

We’re looking for a Junior Backend Engineer to join our Analytics Team — the part of our product where everything revolves around data, insights, and turning usage patterns into real product value. You’ll help us understand how people actually use our communication platform — not by guessing, but by building smart tools and scalable infrastructure that makes sense of the data.

No boring maintenance tasks here — you’ll be part of a small, skilled team that builds features from scratch, improves the data pipeline, and has a say in how things are built and shipped. It is your chance to enter an already grown and successful company while being able to still leave your visible footprint.

What we’re looking for:

• You’ve written backend code before — in a project, internship, course, or even just for fun
• You’re curious, eager to learn, and really enjoy building software that works well
• You find databases exciting and want to go deep — not just copy/paste SQL from Stack Overflow
• Some hands-on experience with: TypeScript, a JavaScript backend framework (Node.js preferred), SQL, relational databases like Postgres, MySQL, or SQLite
• Bonus points:
• You've worked with data-heavy applications before
• You want to grow into full product ownership over time
• You’re based near Hamburg and can join us in the office twice a week — not a must, but a plus!

We encourage you to apply even if your profile does not yet meet all the requirements for the position. At Haiilo we support your personal development as well as your individuality, no matter what background you have.

What you’ll do:

• Build real stuff from day one: You’ll work on actual features that ship — not just “junior tasks”. You’ll write backend code that powers key parts of our analytics product
• Shape how we work with data: Help improve how we collect, process, and serve usage data from our platform — especially in our PostgreSQL data pipeline
• Be part of the product thinking: Join feature planning sessions, share your ideas, ask questions, and learn how great product decisions are made
• Learn by doing (with support): You’ll pair with experienced engineers, get code reviews, and have people around you who are excited to help you grow
• Own your code: You won’t just write code — you’ll help test it, monitor it, and keep it running smoothly in production. That’s how we all learn

What we offer:

👩🏼‍💻Remote/hybrid role: We value flexibility and teamwork. If you live within a commutable distance from one of our office locations, we require you to work on-site at least one day per week, with Wednesdays as the designated in-office day. While Wednesday is the minimum, we recommend spending 2 (or more) days in the office each week. For those further away, we look forward to seeing you two days per month during our team events to foster collaboration and team spirit

🎉Company Vibe: We value spending time together, so you’ll get to join regular team socials, themed afterworks (e.g. Pride Month, Cultural Awareness Month, etc.), in-person workshops, and our annual company week in Hamburg 🥳

🚀Growth: At Haiilo, we are passionate about personal and professional growth. Our leadership is dedicated to helping you improve every day, through individual and group workshop sessions, financial support for training, conferences, books, etc. and external learning resources (e.g. access to Blinkist)

🌴Time off: Depending on your location, we offer up to 30 vacation days to take some well-deserved time off. Our employees in all locations get 2 annual company-wide self-care days on top of the normal vacation days (because we love what we do, but we also love a healthy work-life balance!)

🌟Health & wellbeing: To promote physical and mental wellbeing, we not only offer health insurance for all locations and a discount for sports memberships but also access to Nilo.health. ’Cause healthy employees = happy employer!

🌏Sustainability: We only have one planet: We understand the importance of sustainability. We are a carbon-neutral company, our merch is sustainable and we offer exclusive discounts for sustainable brands through FutureBens

🫂Diversity & Inclusion: We are committed to a diverse and inclusive environment. As an international and multicultural team with different skills, ideas and experiences, we actively work to represent and promote diversity in the company