Quick Summary
Hello Senior Full Stack Engineers! We are seeking a candidate motivated by creating real impact, focusing on practical, usable outcomes over overengineered or purely experimental solutions. Operating within a small, autonomous team, you will combine strong technical execution with product-oriented thinking to help shape the future of Matomo. Efficiency, creativity, and execution are paramount.
About InnoCraft and Matomo
At InnoCraft, we are building a more ethical, privacy-first digital world. Matomo is the leading open-source web analytics platform, powering over 1 million websites and apps in 190+ countries. We offer organizations the insights they need while maintaining full data ownership and user trust. In Germany, Matomo is highly popular with public institutions, universities, and companies prioritizing GDPR compliance.
We believe in openness, privacy, and transparency. Our platform processes billions of data points monthly, transforming complex information into intuitive, powerful reports. Matomo is available in 50+ languages and supported by a global, fully remote community with strong hubs in New Zealand, Germany, and France. You can view our Github here.
Why Join Matomo?
- Privacy-first: Ethical analytics built around GDPR and user trust.
- Open Source: Shape a platform used in 190+ countries globally.
- Global Team: Work with colleagues across Europe, New Zealand, and Canada.
- Established & Growing: Profitable, self-funded company with double-digit growth for 5+ years and a steadily expanding global team.
- Fully Remote: 100% work-from-home within Germany, offering flexible hours.
- Career Growth: Clear Engineering Career Development Framework supporting skill progression and leadership growth.
- High Calibre Team: Join a collaborative group of experienced engineers focused on innovation and impact.
- AI-Empowered Development: Utilize AI tools and practices to accelerate experimentation, development, and quality.
What You Will Do
- Full-Stack Innovation Development: Design, prototype, and deliver new features across backend (PHP) and frontend (JS) that extend Matomo’s capabilities. Python and node.js may also be involved.
- Rapid Prototyping & Validation: Quickly test new product ideas, including AI/insights, and validate them using real-world use cases.
- End-to-End Ownership: Take ownership of ideas from concept through deployment.
- Product-Centric Engineering: Think beyond code, considering usability, scalability, security, and long-term value when shaping new features.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate directly with Matomo’s co-founders and senior engineers using Slack, Jira, and Confluence.
- Autonomous Execution: Operate effectively in a small, lean team with minimal oversight, driving projects forward independently.
- Impediment Management: Proactively identify and resolve blockers; escalate appropriately when outside support is needed to maintain innovation momentum.
- Exploration Beyond AI: Identify and develop innovation opportunities across analytics, visualization, integrations, and user experience.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document and communicate concepts, prototypes, and learnings to spread innovation practices across the company.
- Continuous Learning: Stay current with emerging technologies, frameworks, and product trends to bring fresh perspectives into Matomo.
Qualifications
Essential Skills
- 5+ years experience with backend development in PHP and experience in frontend development in Vue.js / JavaScript.
- Proven track record of delivering features end-to-end—from concept through prototyping to production.
- Ability to work autonomously in a small, fast-moving team, managing priorities and driving output without heavy oversight.
- A product-oriented mindset: able to translate user needs and strategic goals into practical, impactful solutions.
- Comfort balancing speed and quality: delivering quickly while avoiding over-engineering.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic approach to new technologies and innovation.
- Understanding of security vulnerabilities and how to avoid them.
- Skilled at writing automated tests, reviewing code, and writing documentation.
- Professional English communication skills, with the ability to clearly share ideas, rationale, and trade-offs.
- Must be comfortable working in a 100% remote, global, and agile environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience with analytics, reporting, data visualisation, or AI/ML integrations.
- Background contributing to or building on open source projects.
- Familiarity with UX principles and/or data-driven product design.
- Prior experience in an innovation, R&D, or product prototyping role.
- German language proficiency.
Benefits
- Fully remote within Germany.
- Budget for co-working space or work from home setup.
- Home office equipment (desk, chair etc) supplied after probation period.
- Flexible hours—we respect work life balance.
- 30 paid holidays per year plus your national public holidays.
- Sick leave.
- Health Insurance: Your Well-being, Our Priority.
- A huge “playground” to grow your skill set.
- Volunteering Day: Empower Your Impact.
- Compassionate leave, including for pet loss.
- Training Opportunities.
- Mental Health Support Services.
- Opportunity to have an immediate impact on a product used by more than 1 million websites and almost 2% of the whole Internet.
- Opportunity to work in a customer obsessed business, dedicated to building high-quality software with a strong mission of helping people grow their web projects while keeping full control of their data.
Location
This is a 100% Remote work position. We hire only within Germany for payroll/legal reasons.
Diversity and Inclusion
InnoCraft celebrates the things that make you, you! We are an inclusive employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status or disability. We actively seek diversity in our workplace and embrace individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities!
Come join our growing team that’s helping ensure a safer, more privacy-focused web/internet!
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.