One of the most exciting web-based companies in Europe is looking for you.

Colourbox and Skyfish: Who are we?

We are an online e-commerce and SaaS company with a rapidly-growing international user base. We have physical offices in Denmark (in Odense) and Germany (in Berlin). We offer our customers two products: Colourbox and Skyfish.

Colourbox, our e-commerce platform, is a high-quality stock image bank through which we deliver images, vectors, and videos to 500000+ users worldwide. Skyfish is our cloud-based file management SaaS system, with which we help Northern Europe’s leading organizations share and use digital content in total security.

We seek two new Front-end Engineers to help realize our customers’ needs.

What to expect: a better way of working.

We dislike lifeless offices and stiff hierarchies. At Colourbox, a boss will not tell you what to do or how to do it. Bosses don’t create results — you do. We thus want to help you grow, so we can grow with you.

You are probably your best manager. So at Colourbox, you’ll instead work with a ‘coach.’ Your coach will inspire you to see your work’s bigger picture, learn how you work best, and then motivate you to create what the big picture needs. We’ll accept your strengths and your limits equally, and optimize your teamwork with both. Expect us to bring out your best while giving you chances to grow. This way, everyone wins.

At our location in Odense, Denmark, we offer a rejuvenating environment in which you can focus. Among green fields, down a long gravel road, sits our main office in a renovated country estate. At noon daily, our chef serves a delicious buffet.

However, you are always free to work remotely from any place at any time. Work is not the only significant part of our lives. We respect you as someone with commitments, ups and downs, and hopes and dreams.

Our company culture is characterized by four values: Professional Pride, Innovation, Teamwork, and Honesty. You can read more about them at colourbox.com/about.

We like process and clarity. All our projects start from an idea pitched to every type of stakeholder: development, sales, users, and so on. Once an idea is approved, we ‘kick off’ projects by breaking it down into ‘sprints.’ To cooperate smoothly and see quick results, we use collaborative tools such as Slack, and Asana.

Your mindset

You are open-minded, and you can recognize projects’ potential while you maintain focus on what is achievable. You are driven to improve what already exists, and you are not afraid to pull large systems apart to rebuild them with improved functionality. You can turn theoretical understanding into new, practical solutions.

This position is open to all skill levels. We’re ready to give you the best onboarding not only to our work but also to your role. Alongside thorough introductions to our systems and workflows, we’ll make sure you gain expertise in current best practices, coding guidelines; everything you want to know.

Your work

We seek an experienced Backend Software Developer interested in high-performing web applications, including search algorithms and cloud infrastructure.

You will be part of a strong existing development team, working either at our headquarters in Odense, Denmark, or remotely.

We are in a period of rapid growth, and we have many exciting and technically challenging projects in our pipeline. The platforms you help develop will create notably effortless user experiences and convert new visitors into satisfied customers.

Your tasks

You will be involved in creating innovative solutions, and improving existing solutions and services, to deliver friction-free user experiences on our platforms. You will work closely with other developers to create new features, and integrate new technologies into existing ones. You will be deeply involved in taking challenging projects from conceptualization through to launch and operation.

Our developers work across two teams: a Backend Team and a Frontend Team. The two work closely together. If you also enjoy working with frontend technologies, we will be happy to welcome you as a full stack developer.

You will have a lot of creative flexibility. We trust you to pick the best tools for your jobs. We are open to introducing new technologies to solve specific problems; for example, we have recently begun using AWS Gateway together with AWS CDK to manage our Cloud stack.

The Cloud is inherent to our work. We run our services on AWS. We use open-source software such as NGINX, MySQL, and Elasticsearch, along with custom-built services in PHP and Python. The open-source approach is vital to our ethos and our operations.

Your qualifications

We know developers come in different forms, but we expect you to at least have the following:

Required competencies

• Experience working with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar databases

• Experience defining and implementing APIs.

• Proven development skills in PHP, Python, or similar languages

• Excellent written and verbal English

The following are advantageous:

• Experience with test-driven development

• Interest in AWS/DevOps

What we offer

• Exciting work solving interesting technical challenges

• Talented and committed colleagues from more than nine countries

• A competitive salary

• Pension contributions

• A continuous education program, paid for by us

• A great selection of delicious food prepared daily by our in-house chef

• Flexible working hours (alongside our core hours of 09:00 – 15:00 CET)

Your first few months

Expect extensive training, with monthly evaluations. If you choose to work elsewhere from our HQ in Odense, Denmark, we will need you to spend your first two weeks in Odense, as well as an additional one week there at the end of your onboarding.