Senior Frontend Engineer
This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).
We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 60 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.
At Almedia, you’ll:
Own way more, way earlier — you’ll be trusted with responsibility fast.
Push harder, get further — this isn’t a 9–5. We highly reward intensity.
Join a rare environment — you will work with ambitious high-speed, high-ownership people.
Fully present — we’re 5 days a week in the office to build the energising momentum we need.
Senior Frontend Engineer
At Almedia, we're not just scaling quickly; we're launching multiple, ambitious projects with groundbreaking business models and expanding into vast new audiences. This isn't just a role; it's an invitation to be a core builder within a hyper-growth environment. We're seeking highly motivated individuals who are obsessed with engineering excellence, deeply hands-on, and driven to reimagine, rebuild, and optimize codebases for unmatched scalability and innovation.
What You’ll Do 🎯
Own the Frontend Vision & Execution: Drive the end-to-end development of scalable, high-performance web applications using React.js/Next.js, with a direct focus on rewriting, refactoring, and optimizing existing code for future-proof architecture and seamless user experiences on Freecash.
Innovate & Build Greenfields: Actively participate in shaping and building new features, and potentially entirely new products, from conception to launch, ensuring technical excellence and strategic alignment with new business ventures.
Collaborate & Elevate: Work intensely with Backend Developers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists, not just to execute tasks, but to proactively identify opportunities for cross-functional improvements and drive impactful solutions.
Champion Performance & Quality: Be relentlessly focused on optimizing frontend applications for speed, responsiveness, and reliability, ensuring every millisecond and byte contributes to a flawless user journey.
Drive Team Growth & Best Practices: Contribute to structuring, mentoring, and onboarding new engineers, fostering a culture of high standards, continuous learning, and robust development workflows.
What You’ll Bring 💡
Mastery of Frontend Architecture: Deep, hands-on expertise with React.js and Next.js, coupled with a passion for building scalable, performant, and maintainable web applications from the ground up or through significant refactoring.
Technical Precision: Profound proficiency in TypeScript for robust, type-safe code, and experience with GraphQL for efficient data fetching, and WebSockets for real-time communication.
Obsession with Optimization: A proven track record in diagnosing and solving complex performance bottlenecks, optimizing large-scale applications for speed, responsiveness, and user delight.
Proactive Problem-Solver: You don't wait for tasks; you actively identify technical challenges, propose innovative solutions, and take initiative to implement them, pushing beyond the obvious.
Collaborative Driver: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to concisely share knowledge, debate technical approaches, and influence outcomes across diverse technical and non-technical teams.
What Makes You a Great Fit 🌟
A "Core Builder" Mindset: You're intensely driven by ownership, always looking to improve, build, and solve problems, treating the product's success as your own.
Relentless Dedication: You thrive in a demanding, fast-paced environment, balancing speed with an uncompromising commitment to quality and engineering excellence.
Curious & Impact-Obsessed: You're not just a coder; you're a product thinker who cares deeply about real user impact and continuously seeks to push boundaries and learn new ways to deliver breakthrough innovations.
Why Almedia? 🎁
Own Our Growth: We offer all Berlin-based employees equity in Almedia to truly be a part of our success.
Scale With Almedia: Grow alongside a startup that has been profitable from day one.
Central Berlin Office: Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin.
Other Benefits: Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.
We Listen: We regularly add to our benefits through rigorous employee feedback.
We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
