Junior Software Engineer (mwd) (Frankfurt Remote)

Berlin - Germany

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 9 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Willidrop

Willidrop is a managed marketplace for cross-border car transport in Europe. We connect dealers and carriers to make transport fast reliable transparent and fully digital from instant quoting to delivery documentation. Were building the operating system for a highly fragmented logistics category and scaling a platform ops model thats proven to handle high throughput with a lean team.

The role

Were hiring an early-career engineer who wants real ownership not a title. Youll join early work closely with the founder and an experienced part-time product/engineering lead (612 months overlap) and progressively become the primary owner of the production system.

This is not a CTO / co-founder role. It is a role where youll learn how to run and evolve a real marketplace platform end-to-end.

Tasks

What youll work on (real responsibilities day 1)

Youll contribute across the system that powers:

Dealer & customer-facing booking tracking flows (portal updates)
Carrier-facing workflows (jobs pricing documentation negotiation)
Internal tooling: route planning admin panel pricing operations

Typical tasks:

Fix production issues improve reliability and reduce manual ops effort
Ship small-to-medium features across frontend workflows backend logic and automation
Improve data quality (syncs validation edge cases) and observability (alerts logs dashboards)
Tighten security access control (roles permissions data exposure)
Help shape the next iteration of the platform as we scale volume and automate more of the journey

Your ownership path (how you grow)

Months 02 (guided): Ship fixes/features with tight feedback learn the system end-to-end

Months 35 (primary operator): You own day-to-day stability and small features independently

Months 612 (system owner): Youre the default person for how does this work and can we change this safely with support for bigger architectural decisions

Current stack (pragmatic evolving)

A workflow-oriented product UI augmented with custom JavaScript components
A Postgres-based backend platform with authentication access control and server-side logic
A custom-built mapping & routing application used for core domain logic
Automated background jobs and data pipelines connecting internal systems and external tools
Modern CI/CD pipelines with environment separation and secure secret handling

How we build: Agentic engineering is a must

We actively embrace agentic engineering and modern AI-assisted development (e.g. coding agents automated refactors test generation AI-supported debugging structured prompt workflows). Were looking for someone who is curious hands-on and proactive about using these tools responsibly to move faster and raise quality.

You dont need to be an expert today but you do need the mindset: open experimental and pragmatic. If youre fundamentally opposed to this direction its probably not the right environment for you.

Requirements

What were looking for

You dont need a perfect CV. You do need to be someone who ships reliably learns fast and takes production seriously.

Must-haves

Strong JavaScript fundamentals comfortable working across backend scripts and browser-based code
Solid understanding of relational databases (Postgres) and safe schema evolution
Experience working with a backend platform or BaaS (auth permissions server-side logic) preferred supabase
Ability to debug and improve data flows and background processes (idempotency retries edge cases)
Practical experience with API integrations (authentication rate limits error handling)
Clear ownership mindset: you can break work down deliver incrementally and keep systems stable
Openness to agentic engineering and active use of AI tools as part of daily development

Nice-to-haves

Experience working with low-code/no-code systems alongside custom code
Exposure to geospatial routing or map-based products
Familiarity with serverless functions or lightweight backend services
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and multi-environment deployments
Background integrating operational tools into production systems

Benefits

What youll get

Real ownership early: you wont be ticket-taking forever
Direct mentorship a clear handover path to full technical ownership
A product thats already live with clear market pull and a platform vision spanning dealers carriers
Competitive salary and employee participation program
Location: preferred onsite in Frankfurt remote possible

About WillidropWillidrop is a managed marketplace for cross-border car transport in Europe. We connect dealers and carriers to make transport fast reliable transparent and fully digital from instant quoting to delivery documentation. Were building the operating system for a highly fragmented logist...