Backend Engineer - Integrations

About Staffbase

We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first AI-native Employee Experience Platform. Our industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels - intranet, employee app and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.

Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 750+ employees supports 2,000+ customers—reaching over 16.4 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.
We are proud to be a Unicorn company—privately valued at over $1 billion—demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.

Join our growing integrations team in Prague, focusing on building modern, scalable integrations with systems like ServiceNow, MS Sharepoint or Workday. This team is part of a broader initiative to bring integrations in-house and unify how Staffbase interacts with third-party platforms.

You’ll work with modern backend technologies to deliver robust, customer-facing services that streamline IT workflows and workplace automations. This position is best suited to engineers who enjoy solving complex backend challenges while collaborating closely with frontend colleagues to deliver complete user experiences.

This is an initial 12-month fixed-term contract with the view of becoming a long-term opportunity as we continue to grow our Prague hub.

What you’ll be doing 

• Design, build, and maintain integration services between Staffbase and 3rd party systems
• Develop backend components and services using Java/Kotlin, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to build cohesive end-to-end user journeys
• Contribute to shared integration architecture and tooling across team
• Take ownership of how integrations are designed, built, and scaled as part of a growing platform initiative
• Ensure code quality, maintainability, and alignment with best practices

What you need to be successful 

• 3+ years of experience in backend software development with Java or Kotlin
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, integration patterns, and microservice architecture
• Experience with cloud-based systems (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a plus
• Curiosity and flexibility to occasionally contribute to frontend discussions or simple UI integrations
• Experience with ServiceNow or similar enterprise systems is a bonus
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
• Enthusiasm for learning and adapting in a fast-growing SaaS environment
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
• Appreciation of diversity and inclusivity in the workplace
• Excellent English communication skills
• Exposure to React/Typescript is great but not required

What You'Ll Get

• Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
• Flexibility - we offer a hybrid work model, and support this with a monthly flex work allowance of Kč 3.000
• Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of Kč 25.000 and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year)
• Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
• Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance Kč 900 from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation
• Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid