Backend Web Developer

Point Jupiter is a professional UX design and software development agency with a global reach. We position ourselves as our client's partners who deliver meaningful value and tangible results.

You are naturally curious and looking forward to solving challenges? You take great pride in being able to learn and share your knowledge? Tech runs deep in your veins?

We would love to work with you.

Who are we looking for

Come as you are. We are looking for smart, driven, ambitious professionals interested in making a meaningful impact.

We are hiring a Backend Web Developer to join our web development team in Zagreb, Croatia.

About us

You will be joining a growing and excellent team of other backend and frontend web developers, UX and UI designers, PMs, QAs, and execs. Point Jupiter develops and designs solutions for our worldwide clients in various industries. Projects we work on include web and progressive web apps, mobile solutions, distributed systems, and we are actively exploring opportunities related to AI and ML.

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Projects envisioned, designed, developed, and delivered by our teammates are used on all continents. More than 400 million users used or interacted in some way with some of our solutions. As a team, we worked with clients like Microsoft, IBM, Twiplomacy, UNHCR, UNICEF, Deutsche Telekom, and the World Economic Forum. However, we also enjoy working with exciting startups moving the boundaries of what is possible in fintech, retail, education, travel, banking, e-learning, and many other industries.

Check out some of our works here.

About you – our next backend web developer

Point Jupiter is looking for an ambitious and motivated backend web developer who is happy to explore various projects and types of work we deliver to our clients.

Most of our backend stack revolves around Node and Go, but we are actively experimenting with other technologies – like Elixir, for example. If you are looking for a place where you will be appreciated for both your personal and professional qualities and where your work is meaningful and truly matters – we’d love to welcome you to Point Jupiter.

We are building a next-generation conversational interface funded by the European Commission. We’d love to have you onboard and help us take it from the concept to actual implementation.

Your team will be there to support you – frontend devs, UX and UI designers, CTO, PM, CEO – we all care about you and your growth.

Your skills should include the following:

you have at least 2-3 years of experience, but we are also interested in hiring senior devs
knowledge of and familiarity with Google Cloud ( and/or AWS, Azure, Heroku…)
familiarity with Redis and PostgreSQL
experience working with graph databases and related technologies is a huge plus
familiarity with RESTful APIs, but if you are familiar with alternatives like GraphQL – that’s a plus
experience and familiarity working with Git and code versioning principles
if you have experience using tools and technologies like Rasa, Grakn, knowledge graphs, NLP, and chatbots – you are an excellent match for this job
excellent knowledge of English (spoken, written)
open-minded, challenge-seeking, and eager to learn from other colleagues but also on your own

In addition to this, we value your soft skills. What are the soft skills for developers? Read on!

Formal education degrees and qualifications are not crucial, although preference will be given to persons with higher education.

A driver’s license is not a requirement. But, please, keep in mind that we’d love to talk with you regardless of your previous tech stack.

We believe that dependable software engineers are best defined by their ability to learn, grow, and adapt, not just by their knowledge of a specific tech stack. Your experience and motivation are more important than a single specific technology.

What can we offer to you?

Here are some of the things we can offer you:

Exciting and challenging projects spanning different areas of your interest
A chance to grow and learn from day one
Personalized professional growth support and plan – our HR will help you define your goals and expectations and make sure we provide you with the resources to achieve them
A competitive benefits package (salary, generous paid vacation days, bonuses, additional healthcare coverage, team gathering, skills exchange, occasional travel, Kid Cash)
An excellent work/private-life balance
Hybrid ways of working – we combine our time in the office with our time working from home
Regular feedback as a tool that will help you be your best self and grow
You can develop your skills in a direction that is attractive to you – you can either decide to broaden your scope or specialize in a specific technology or industry.
Pretty much an unlimited supply of fresh fruits, juice, tea, coffee, snacks
A chance to make a meaningful impact and shape the future of our team – we are still very young, and every single person joining us has a significant effect and excellent prospects for future development
In house and paid education – 4 hours every week (Friday coding sessions (FCS))
We are pets friendly and have a gaming console and a billiard table, but, honestly, everyone has those, and that’s not what’s making us special – our work and your future colleagues – now, that’s exceptional!

What’s next?

Fill in the form below (scroll down a little bit) or – send us your CV and, if you have them, links to some of your work, Git repos, or similar resources.

Come as you are

We are an equal opportunity employer valuing your goals and results. We strive to be inclusive and welcoming. You can check out our Diversity policy, and we are open to your feedback.

When hiring, we live by our motto #ComeAsYouAre. Your skin color, gender, education level, veteran or social status, your religion – or absence of it – don’t make a difference at Point Jupiter. Even your big-shot dad or political connections will not mean much here.

Your values, dedication, motivation, work ethics, and professionalism are the only things that matter at Point Jupiter.

Job perks

Ability to work on global and challenging projects

Our clients are from all around the world and live and work on all continents. Antarctica included! We solve some of the world’s interesting challenges and learn a lot while doing that.

Competitive salary

We know that money can’t buy everything, but we also know that you are valuable, that your skills are appreciated and we want to make sure we treat you fairly when it comes to your salary.

Christmas and Easter bonuses plus Kid Cash

For your loyalty we will reward you with additional Christmas and Easter bonuses. If you have kids, we have some “kid cash” for them as well. The more, the merrier.

Generous holidays

Depending on how long you have been with us and your seniority, we offer generous paid holidays. It is never less than 20 days plus about a dozen or so state and religious holidays. Even if you are a student-worker or an intern.

Bleeding for the greater good

You can earn some extra paid holidays if you donate your blood. We encourage all the people who are able to do so do donate their blood and, in many cases, help save lives!

Team gatherings

Couple of times during a year we escape from our office and spend several days together where we socialize, cook and BBQ together, explore, sing or just enjoy great outdoors. The last place we visited was the incredible island of Vis in Croatia!

Learn and earn

Every week you have 4 hours you can spend on your own education and it is paid as a part of your regular employment. If some of the learning resource cost actual money, we will cover the reasonable costs.

Additional health insurance

Other than the full medical coverage that comes as a part of your regular employment with us, we offer you additional health insurance. This is one of those benefits we hope you never need to use, but in case you do - we got you covered!

Working on quality equipment

Tools make the (wo)man and we want to be sure you get to work on quality equipment. Depending on your job role, this will include MacBook Pros or equivalent laptops. Also, phones.

Join us, see the world

Sometimes we get to go places and help our clients or attend events in different cities, countries or even continents. Point Jupiter covers your real costs and you get to learn, work and explore at the same time.

Working from home

We get it - from time to time you need to wait for that plumber to come and fix your leaking pipes. Or your kid gets sick. Or you are feeling under the weather. We offer flexibility and you can work from home.

Contributing to open source community

We believe in open software ecosystem. We even completely open-sourced our own website and continue to make contributions to the community. If you like this idea, we will encourage you!

We love pets

If you want to bring your dog to work with you, feel free to do so. We are pet-friendly and we will try to accomodate to your furry buddies.

Skills exchange

You learned something and want to share it with your coworkers? Feel free to engage in our in-house skills-exchange activities. Interested in bringing a speaker from outside of our team? Let us know, maybe we can work it out!

Fresh fruit, tea, milk, coffee and snacks

Need to make a break? Have an apple. Or drink some juice. Or discuss your next project idea with your coworkers over some coffee and tea. We will make sure that supplies never run out, and you can request we get some just for you!