Lead Backend Software Engineer

Description

Hi, we are Storyteq! 👋

Storyteq helps marketing and creative teams in top brands to scale their creative production and gain control over their marketing campaigns. Through our platform, our clients can streamline campaign workflows, automate their creative production through templates & AI and activate engaging campaigns that go to market faster.

We believe creativity takes time, but creative production shouldn’t. Since 2016 our mission has been to revolutionize the way creative assets are created and used. Magic happens when we let technology empower creativity. Our endless curiosity and relentless commitment to our customers lies at the heart of our problem-solving approach. This shared mission is woven into our values: we dream big, think differently, and are stronger together.

About the job

You’ll likely join our Assets domain, where we’re scaling up to support a growing range of use cases—from intelligent asset search and real-time transformations to AI-powered tagging and seamless integration with our templating and distribution tools. You’ll be the technical lead for a team focused on the backend services that power our DAM platform at scale, ensuring fast, reliable, and intelligent asset delivery across the ecosystem.

You’ll work closely with engineering peers, product managers, and architects to align on technical direction, drive implementation, and ensure high engineering standards. While you’ll remain hands-on, a key part of your role will be guiding others through technical decisions, mentoring, and championing best practices.

Requirements

Key responsibilities:

• Take ownership of technical direction and architecture within the team
• Build and ship robust backend services with real product impact
• Ensure backend systems are scalable, performant, and easy to maintain
• Guide engineers through technical decisions and mentor them in best practices
• Collaborate with other teams to integrate services and deliver end-to-end value
• Model business domains into clean, efficient data structures
• Lead by example in engineering excellence, pragmatism, and shared ownership

Key requirements:

• Experience leading technical delivery within a team or project
• Confident in making architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs
• Comfortable mentoring and supporting engineers to help them grow
• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering backend or full-stack products with TypeScript (and JavaScript)
• Strong backend development skills with Node.js
• Solid experience designing and integrating REST and/or GraphQL APIs
• Comfortable working in monorepo environments and modular architectures
• Proficient in data modeling and working with SQL/NoSQL databases
• Familiar with testing practices, performance tuning, and scalable design principles
• Experience working in SaaS or product-based environments
• You’re proactive, result-driven, and excited to work in a fast-growing tech scale-up
• You’re a strong team player who values collaboration and shared success

Nice to have(s):

• Hands-on with DAM concepts like versioning, metadata, and access control
• Designed or contributed to asset pipelines for processing, optimizing, and delivering media content
• Built systems for secure, performant asset access at scale

Benefits

• 27 days of annual leave (Well-being Day and Volunteer Day included).
• Flexible hybrid working model.
• Travel allowance.
• Opportunity to work from abroad for up to one month per year.
• A bicycle lease plan with Hellorider after 1 year of employment.
• Excellent tools: Macbook, Monitor, and everything in between!
• We support your continuous improvement with training, courses, conferences, and books.
• Mental health and wellbeing support: Access to OpenUp.
• Office lunches and endless snacks at the Amsterdam Office.
• The best Friday afternoon drinks and quarterly team outings.
• A 60% Pension contribution for employees who are based in the Netherlands.
• Pet-friendly office, so feel free to bring your furry friend!
• Opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving marketing technology industry.

We Value Diversity

We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.

We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organiSation but the wider industry.

At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet because we’re always stronger together.

Storyteq has a number of community groups available to employees and exists to offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialize, and check in with each other.

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