Cello

Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d)

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About the role

🚀 Why join
AI-powered infrastructure company with $10.3M in funding from top-tier investors.

Exciting product: APIs, attribution models, MCP integration, AI-based recommendation engines, and assistants - not your typical CRUD app.

Real traction: 30+ new customers every month, 10M+ end users monthly.

Small team, so you'll genuinely shape how we build things.

You'll touch everything from frontend widgets to backend infrastructure to data pipelines. The work doesn't get repetitive.

We actively learn about new tech and AI tools and adopt where we can — we have to, because our customers do.

Remote-first, but we get together regularly - company-wide and as an engineering team.

The founding team consists of serial founders and experienced big-tech operators from Twilio, Wise, and Skype.

🌟 What We’re Building
We help SaaS companies turn their users and partners into a sales channel through referrals, sharing, and recommendations - 10M+ end users interact with our system every month.
Our widgets live inside customer products, which means your code runs in environments you don't control. On top of that: APIs that customer developers integrate against, and a portal where customers manage their campaigns and analytics.
Under the hood: attribution across complex user journeys, AI-based recommendation engines, multi-tenant infrastructure serving hundreds of customers, scaling millions of events. Deeper than you'd expect from a referral tool.
Our product is integrated by customer developers - and that world is changing fast. The people building against our APIs and widgets range from corporate engineering teams to solo founders using AI coding agents. Keeping up with how developers work today, and making sure our product fits into all of those workflows, is one of the more interesting challenges here.

Your Mission
Stack: React · NestJS · Python · AWS

You work directly with stakeholders - no walls, no ticket factory.

Build new features and improve existing systems.

Sometimes we ship fast to learn, sometimes we slow down to fix the foundation - you'll help decide where to lean.

Real influence on architecture and product direction, not just coding tickets.

Help us adopt the latest AI improvements to speed up how we build and ship.

About You
Required
Good communication skills and a collaborative attitude

Deep backend experience with NestJS or Python (or a comparable framework), and hands-on AWS knowledge from running services in production

Fluent in TypeScript and JavaScript - it's your daily driver, not a language you've dabbled in

You treat infrastructure as code - Terraform (or similar) is second nature, and clicking around consoles makes you uncomfortable

You have strong opinions about observability, backed by real work with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, structured logging, and dashboards and alerting that actually help during incidents

You know when "good enough" is right - and when to invest in quality

You are a strong problem solver - you can break down complex, ambiguous problems and ship pragmatic solutions, not just debug what's already in front of you

You contribute ideas and challenge assumptions, not just execute

You're geniously curious about the product itself - you want to understand what we're building and why, not just pick up tickets and ship code.

You live at the bleeding edge of agentic coding. Claude Code, Cursor, multi-agent setups, MCP servers, whatever ships next, you're using it and pushing it to its limits. We move fast on adopting what works

That said, you know how code and systems actually work. You can debug, reason about architecture, and carry your weight in a codebase without an AI assistant holding your hand.

Strong work ethic - you take ownership, ship what you commit to, and don't need to be chased

Nice-to-haves
Familiarity with data warehousing / analytics (e.g. Snowflake, ClickHouse, or similar)

Experience building systems at real scale: high traffic, large user base, high availability,

Plus solid experience with at least one frontend framework — React, Next.js, or similar.

Benefits
In the end, it’s all about the team and our culture. Understand why we love our job and see what it’s like to work at Cello in our People Playbook. We have some compelling perks and benefits here.
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Role
Technology & IT API integration Data Analysis Digital Marketing Javascript Python remote

Likely questions

  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d) role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at Cello?
  3. Which of API integration, Data Analysis and Digital Marketing have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. Describe a time you solved a problem without waiting to be told exactly what to do.
  5. How do you stay organised and communicate clearly when working remotely?

Prepare before the call

  • A recent example that proves your experience with API integration, Data Analysis and Digital Marketing.
  • One short story with a problem, your action, and the result.
  • Two examples that show the strengths listed on your CV.
  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

Ask them

  • What would success look like in the first 90 days?
  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
  • How does the team give feedback and measure good work?
  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
Practice line

I am interested in the Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d) role because I can bring practical experience in API integration, Data Analysis and Digital Marketing, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Cello needs from this hire.

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