Location: Come and join us in Hamburg!

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive.
Be ready to work in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative marketing team who strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Are you ready for your next ride?

As of now, we are looking for a highly motivated Junior Backend Engineer to join one of our Teams that builds the backend for the demand on the Platform.

Our teams are cross functional with backend and frontend engineering and work on various systems such as our Rider application, or Dispatching solutions for Dispatch centers. This includes driving automation across critical processes and enhancing internal user experiences with data-driven, reliable solutions.

Be ready to join a multinational, diverse, and collaborative team that strives for excellence while having fun and growing together.

If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and thrive in a supportive, innovative environment, this is your next ride—hop on board!

YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

• Taking end-to-end ownership of the entire feature development process—from contributing ideas for new features, writing clean code, and testing, to deploying and monitoring your services.
• Working closely with your teammates in an agile setup, actively participate in team ceremonies to deliver high-impact tools that reduce friction and accelerate issue resolution.
• Implementing robust and scalable microservices that meet the needs of our growing user base while adhering to industry best practices.
• Maintaining system reliability through thoughtful monitoring, alerting, and continuous delivery practices.
• Exploring the application of AI and foundational models (e.g. Claude) to enhance operational efficiency and support intelligent automation across internal processes.
• Participating in knowledge sharing and collaboration within our technical domain, and continuously improving your skills to bring fresh ideas to our team.
• Being part of a culture that values quality, pragmatism, transparency, and continuous learning. 
• Solving real-world challenges that affect our users, and see your contributions make a tangible impact.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:

• You have 1-2 years of experience with backend development and feel comfortable working with technologies like Kotlin, Java, Spring, PostgreSQL, and Kafka—or you're confident in picking them up.
• Interest in building scalable web applications, including RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures. You're also comfortable working with transactions, resiliency, and system performance.
• Knowledge of testing practices throughout the software development life cycle, including unit, integration, and system testing.
• You take ownership of your work and seek opportunities to improve code quality, system design, and delivery processes.
• You enjoy working in collaborative, cross-functional teams and value knowledge sharing and open communication.
• You're curious and adaptable, and enjoy solving both technical and product-related challenges.
• You thrive in a mission-driven environment, where your contributions have clear impact and your strengths are nurtured.
• You're excited about being part of a team that continuously evolves, reflects, and celebrates wins together.
• You have a clear, confident communication style in English, both written and verbal.
• Bonus: You have experience building backend systems that leverage AI or foundational models to drive operational efficiency and automation.

BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:

Freenow is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work. 

ABOUT FREENOW:

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport within a single app. 

In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Ready for your next ride?

Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Location: Come and join us in Hamburg!

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive.
Be ready to work in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative team of passionate developers who strive for excellence and like to have fun.  Are you ready for your next ride?

As a member of the SRE-Backend team, you will be part of a team that is driving the development of a stable, reliable, scalable, performant, fault-tolerant, and monitored applications, platforms and microservices, achieving high availability through standardization.

Your work will directly impact the reliability and performance of the systems that power Freenow by Lyft's mobility solutions, affecting thousands of drivers and millions of customers.

YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

• Own the Feature, Own the Code – feel responsible for what you create. It all starts with bringing in your feature ideas, goes over development, testing and ends in deploying your code and monitoring it.
• Maintain and improve the existing systems by finding bottlenecks and performance issues and improving resource usage (DB access, cache, messaging, etc.).
• Establish and enforce standard practices and guidelines for development, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Develop comprehensive monitoring and observability capabilities to gain insights into the health, performance, and behavior of our platform and microservices.
• Participate in the evolution of our  incident response flow, guaranteeing the highest transparency levels.
• Collaborate with your team members in an Agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies.
• Stay on top of the latest technology trends and bring best practices to our daily work.
  Our Techstack: Go | Kotlin | Java | Python | AWS | Kubernetes | Docker | Git | Prometheus | ElasticSearch & more

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:

• Strong experience with Go and, at least, another programming language.
• Experience in Kubernetes.
• Passionate about building reliable and scalable backend systems.
• Experience in SDLC, automated tests and CI/CD tools.
• Familiarity with monitoring platforms (i.e., Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Datadog).
• Knowledge of microservices architecture.
• Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful API’s, dealing with transactions, and resiliency.
• High level of creativity; there’s all the freedom to think outside the box.
• Be communicative, proactive, and always collaborative.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

  Nice to have:

• Experience working with AWS or similar cloud service providers.
• Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience with Python, Kotlin or Java.

BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:

Freenow is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work. 

ABOUT FREENOW:

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport within a single app. 

In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Ready for your next ride?

Location: Come and join us in Hamburg or Berlin.

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive.
Be ready to work in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative marketing team who strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Are you ready for your next ride?

We’re on the lookout for a Junior Backend Engineer to join our Marketplace Pricing team, where we build the systems responsible for calculating all prices on the Freenow platform, including dynamic prices and rider- and driver-specific pricing.

You’ll help create a customized and competitive pricing experience for our customers, while fostering trust and transparency with our partners by ensuring clear and correct price calculations - trust being the cornerstone of our relationships.

At the heart of our work is the chance to make a real impact in the world of mobility. You’ll be part of a multinational, diverse, and highly motivated team of software engineers who are not only passionate about creating top-tier solutions but also about collaborating and having fun along the way.

If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and thrive in a supportive, innovative environment, this is your next ride—hop on board!

YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

• Take Ownership: You’ll have the chance to own the entire process—from contributing ideas for new features, writing clean code, and testing, to deploying and monitoring your services.
• Collaborate in Agile Teams: Work closely with your teammates in an agile setup, actively participate in team ceremonies, and contribute to a dynamic, iterative development process.
• Develop Scalable Microservices: Implement robust and scalable microservices that meet the needs of our growing user base while adhering to industry best practices.
• Maintain and Optimize: Help maintain existing features, troubleshoot, and fix bugs to ensure smooth operations and a great user experience.
• Learn and Grow: Stay up-to-date with the latest backend development trends and continuously improve your skills, bringing fresh ideas to our team.
• Team Player Attitude: Contribute to a positive team spirit—your humble, collaborative approach will help us find solutions together and achieve shared success.
• Impact Real Users: Solve real-world challenges that affect our users, and see your contributions make a tangible impact.
  
  

  We have around 0.5 million users accessing our product monthly, this is across all European countries that we operate in.

  When offering and monetizing reliable, easy-to-use and innovative mobility services to them, the FinTech scalability and reliability are core contributors for the business success, with the ability to adjust and fit different market requirements.

  While being both enabler and driver for diverse business initiatives, it’s important especially for financial services to stay compliant with regulations.

  Be part of our teams, bring in your ideas and evolve with us a high quality software system that makes it easy to stay compliant and boost our business at the same time.

  Our Techstack: Kotlin | Java | Spring Boot | MongoDB | Postgres | Redis & more

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:

• Experience with Kotlin or Java: 1-2 years of experience (or strong foundational knowledge) working with these languages, with an eagerness to grow your expertise.
• Prove Yourself Beyond Degrees: While a background in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths, or related quantitative fields is common, we value practical skills just as much. Show us that passion and talent can go beyond formal degrees.
• Effective Communication: Ability to simplify and explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, adjusting based on their level of understanding.
• Passion for Scalable Solutions: Interest in building scalable web applications, including RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures. You're also comfortable working with transactions, resiliency, and system performance.
• Familiarity with JVM Frameworks: Hands-on experience with Spring Boot or similar frameworks—you're comfortable with the quirks and strengths of JVM-based systems.
• Database Knowledge: Understanding of relational databases and how to design efficient, reliable, and maintainable data structures.
• Holistic Testing Approach: Knowledge of testing practices throughout the software development life cycle, including unit, integration, and system testing.

BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:

Freenow is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.

ABOUT FREENOW:

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport within a single app. 

In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Ready for your next ride?

Location: Come and join us in Hamburg or Berlin.

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive.
Be ready to work in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative marketing team who strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Are you ready for your next ride?

We’re on the lookout for a Junior Backend Engineer to join our Marketplace Pricing team, where we build the systems responsible for calculating all prices on the Freenow platform, including dynamic prices and rider- and driver-specific pricing.

You’ll help create a customized and competitive pricing experience for our customers, while fostering trust and transparency with our partners by ensuring clear and correct price calculations - trust being the cornerstone of our relationships.

At the heart of our work is the chance to make a real impact in the world of mobility. You’ll be part of a multinational, diverse, and highly motivated team of software engineers who are not only passionate about creating top-tier solutions but also about collaborating and having fun along the way.

If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and thrive in a supportive, innovative environment, this is your next ride—hop on board!

YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

• Take Ownership: You’ll have the chance to own the entire process—from contributing ideas for new features, writing clean code, and testing, to deploying and monitoring your services.
• Collaborate in Agile Teams: Work closely with your teammates in an agile setup, actively participate in team ceremonies, and contribute to a dynamic, iterative development process.
• Develop Scalable Microservices: Implement robust and scalable microservices that meet the needs of our growing user base while adhering to industry best practices.
• Maintain and Optimize: Help maintain existing features, troubleshoot, and fix bugs to ensure smooth operations and a great user experience.
• Learn and Grow: Stay up-to-date with the latest backend development trends and continuously improve your skills, bringing fresh ideas to our team.
• Team Player Attitude: Contribute to a positive team spirit—your humble, collaborative approach will help us find solutions together and achieve shared success.
• Impact Real Users: Solve real-world challenges that affect our users, and see your contributions make a tangible impact.
  
  

  We have around 0.5 million users accessing our product monthly, this is across all European countries that we operate in.

  When offering and monetizing reliable, easy-to-use and innovative mobility services to them, the FinTech scalability and reliability are core contributors for the business success, with the ability to adjust and fit different market requirements.

  While being both enabler and driver for diverse business initiatives, it’s important especially for financial services to stay compliant with regulations.

  Be part of our teams, bring in your ideas and evolve with us a high quality software system that makes it easy to stay compliant and boost our business at the same time.

  Our Techstack: Kotlin | Java | Spring Boot | MongoDB | Postgres | Redis & more

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:

• Experience with Kotlin or Java: 1-2 years of experience (or strong foundational knowledge) working with these languages, with an eagerness to grow your expertise.
• Prove Yourself Beyond Degrees: While a background in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths, or related quantitative fields is common, we value practical skills just as much. Show us that passion and talent can go beyond formal degrees.
• Effective Communication: Ability to simplify and explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, adjusting based on their level of understanding.
• Passion for Scalable Solutions: Interest in building scalable web applications, including RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures. You're also comfortable working with transactions, resiliency, and system performance.
• Familiarity with JVM Frameworks: Hands-on experience with Spring Boot or similar frameworks—you're comfortable with the quirks and strengths of JVM-based systems.
• Database Knowledge: Understanding of relational databases and how to design efficient, reliable, and maintainable data structures.
• Holistic Testing Approach: Knowledge of testing practices throughout the software development life cycle, including unit, integration, and system testing.

BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:

Freenow is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.

ABOUT FREENOW:

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport within a single app. 

In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Ready for your next ride?