Hybrid Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Berlin

at EIDU

• Job title: Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Berlin
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: €47,000 - €55,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Android
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer building user-facing features for a next-gen EdTech platform. Collaborating with a mission-driven team to improve learning outcomes for children worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building user-facing features across our Android, backend, and web systems with support from the team.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while learning to ship changes end-to-end.
• Help investigate and fix bugs, improve monitoring, and ensure the reliability of our platform at scale.
• Continue developing your skills with the team’s support by collaborating through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Work with a mission-driven team to deliver software that directly improves learning outcomes for children around the world.

Requirements

• The desire to use your skills to bring about positive social change.
• At least 1-2 years of experience writing code.
• Experience designing system architectures is a plus, but not required.
• A proven record of developing production-grade software in a team.
• Full-stack experience is a plus.
• A passion for writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• A desire to apply AI tools creatively to make your own work — and your teammates’ — more efficient.
• Excellent collaboration skills and a willingness to learn new tech or dive into unfamiliar systems.
• We speak and operate in English - knowledge of German is not required.

Benefits

• A supportive, international team based in Kenya, Nigeria, and Germany, united by a mission and commitment to learning.
• An engineering culture grounded in craftsmanship, trust, and autonomy.
• Meaningful technical challenges: from scaling across low-end devices and unreliable connectivity to designing resilient, self-healing systems.
• A modern, evolving stack: Tooling: Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions Backend: AWS, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, microservices Frontend: React, TypeScript, Android, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose.
• Openness to exploring and proposing new tools — whether open-source, cloud-native, or AI-powered.
• Three creative hackathon weeks per year, where you can explore bold new directions.
• A healthy work-life balance with flexible hours, an async-friendly culture that respects personal time and autonomy, and a hybrid setup (in-office once a week or more).
• We also support reduced working hours if requested (e.g. 32 rather than 40 hours per week).
• Transparent and fair salary bands — we believe everyone should be paid equitably, without needing to negotiate.
• A truly generous equity scheme.
• The chance to see your work in action through field visits to classrooms abroad.
• A rare opportunity to combine deep technical work with real-world global impact.