Full-Stack Software Engineer - Journey

We are looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer with solid frontend and backend experience to join us remotely or in our Berlin office. As we grow, we need your skills to support our mission of building the future of green search.

Day-to-day, you will work across the entire stack - from crafting intuitive user interfaces to building scalable backend services - ensuring our product remains delightful, reliable, and efficient for millions of daily users.

Want to join a collaborative team, shape a product used by millions, and help regenerate our planet’s ecosystem? Read on!

A Role to Help Create Lasting Change

• Develop Core Product Features: Expand our Accounts Platform (user identity and account management) and develop the Climate Impact Experience through engaging, gamified features like seed tracking, levels, and digital collectibles.

• End-to-End Ownership: Architect, build, test, and ship features as part of a cross-functional product team alongside Product, Design, and BI partners.

• Ensure Operational Excellence: Maintain system resilience, security, data privacy, and performance to support our growing user base.

• Elevate Engineering Culture: Promote engineering best practices, share knowledge, and cultivate a collaborative, high-trust engineering environment.

Your Areas of Knowledge and Experience

• 3+ years of experience writing and shipping production-grade JavaScript and TypeScript code.

• 3+ years of experience building and maintaining backend services using Node.js or Go.

• Experience with Vue.js, React, or other similar frontend libraries.

• Solid collaboration mindset and experience in cross-functional teams.

• Professional fluency in English.

Our Tech Stack

You are not expected to have knowledge of everything we do. This is what we currently use:

Backend

• Node.js (JavaScript and TypeScript)

• Cloudflare Workers (TypeScript)

• Go on Kubernetes

Frontend

• Vue 2 with JavaScript (legacy)

• Vue 3 and Astro components with TypeScript (under migration)

• SCSS

Why Ecosia?

What if your job made a real difference in the climate crisis? Join Ecosia and help plant millions of trees where people and ecosystems need them most.

• We are a diverse team, committed to equality, equity, and inclusion, with members from various backgrounds: sexual orientations, genders, ages, races, ethnicities, nationalities, physical and mental disabilities, family structures, and religions.

• We offer you the opportunity to balance work with other parts of your life: flexible working hours, 30 vacation days per year (based on a five-day workweek), designated Focus Times, and remote work options. (Note: Not applicable to freelance contracts; different labor laws may apply in other countries.)

• Our green benefits program - including subsidized public transport cards and bike inspection services - supports your sustainable living choices in Berlin. (Availability may vary by location; not applicable to freelance contracts.)

• We support your professional growth through learning times, hack days, online and physical libraries, and continuous feedback. (Not applicable to freelance contracts.)

Q&A

How many people work at Ecosia?

About 100! Our departments include Engineering, Product, Marketing, Trees, People, and Operations.

Our eng & product teams work in a cross-functional set-up, forming 7 teams.

Where is Ecosia based, and what kind of work setup do we have?

We are a remote-friendly company with one office in Berlin-Wedding. People come to the office or work from home as per their wishes and/or circumstances. Some roles require presence in the office at least from time to time.

Can I apply if I want to work remotely?

Please note that in order for us to consider you for a remote EOR candidacy, you should be based in a CE(S)T +/- 2 hours location due to our core hours and ways of working.

Even then, not every location is possible due to our operational restrictions. If your location fits the first paragraph, apply, and the talent partner will be in touch.

Company language?

English.