About the job

You will be joining a small cross-functional team to work on building InCycling Platform: a cloud-based technical solution offering user interfaces for tracking surplus chemical inventories, registering requests from buyers, and support material trading. This role is the best fit for aspiring professionals with 2-4 years of experience, looking to move into the next stage of their career in the near future and willing to take on more responsibilities.

About InCycling

InCycling is a Berlin-based startup solving a straightforward but overlooked problem: every year, pharmaceutical and chemical companies discard billions of euros worth of usable materials simply because they have no efficient way to sell them. We are building the digital infrastructure to change that. Think trading platform, compliance engine, and ERP integration in one product, purpose-built for a highly regulated industry. We are early stage and moving fast, already making our first trades and building the platform to scale them.

Aufgaben

In this role you will:

• work together with your team and stakeholders to understand the business requirements, and the technical solutions to support them;
• maintain a good understanding of the team’s technical strategy, processes, best practices, and tools, participate in solution design and presentations;
• implement proposed solutions in code; maintain test coverage according to the company standards;
• participate in code reviews, pair programming and other engineering processes to ensure quality and facilitate knowledge exchange;
• apply AI tools to structure and enhance your work, while maintaining full ownership of the outcomes;
• provide reasonable time estimates, and report progress, problems and blockers.

Qualifikation

You must have a good knowledge and/or experience of:

• modern Java language and platform, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, foundations of JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3,
• object-oriented programming concepts, best practices, and design patterns,
• delivery pipeline and continuous integration best practices, relevant tools,
• test-driven development, code reviewing and pair programming best practices.
• familiarity with server-side rendering of frontends and HTMX is a plus;
• familiarity with AWS, observability solutions, and relevant design patterns is a plus;
• experience of working in regulated enterprise environments and startups is a plus.

Our working language is English.

You must demonstrate:

• ability to apply all of the above in AI-assisted work;
• good analytical skills, understanding of requirements structure and definition of done;
• ability to estimate the amount of work and manage the expectations;
• good communication and presentation skills, ability to maintain transparency and persistence in delivery in a hybrid work environment;
• good understanding of agile methodologies and their applicability;
• ability to provide and receive constructive and honest feedback.

Benefits

We offer

• the opportunity to build a new digital platform from the ground up and influence key architectural and engineering decisions;
• a small, highly collaborative team with direct access to the founders and fast decision-making;
• a mission-driven product contributing to the circular economy by reducing waste and CO₂ emissions in the chemical industry;

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, who believe in our mission. If you do not match 100% of the requirements, but believe you can do the job, please apply: perfect candidates do not exist, but wonderful colleagues do.