Hygraph

Role Description As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll work at the intersection of engineering and product to shape how our users build with Hygraph. You'll ship features that solve real customer problems, contribute to our CMS core, extend our platform capabilities, and help bring AI-powered features to life. You won't wait for perfect specs or pixel-perfect designs. You'll use your judgment, collaborate closely with PMs and customers, and move fast using modern AI-assisted development tools. This role is for someone who sees engineering as a team sport, takes ownership without waiting for permission, and thrives in an environment where initiative matters more than instructions. What you will be working on: - Core CMS development: Evolve the GraphQL-native CMS powering enterprise teams worldwide, improving performance, reliability, and developer experience. - CMS extensions and integrations: Develop and maintain extensions that expand what customers can do with Hygraph. - AI-powered features: Contribute to our AI roadmap by building intelligent capabilities into the product. - Customer-facing improvements: Use monitoring data, customer feedback, and your product instinct to proactively identify and fix problems before they're reported. Some of your tasks and responsibilities: - Collaborate in a cross-functional, autonomous team to deliver features and continuous improvements, often working from rough prototypes or early concepts rather than polished designs. - Translate business needs into technical solutions by working closely with Product Managers. Occasionally, participate in customer conversations to validate that what you're building actually solves their problems. - Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude, Codex, or similar) to accelerate development, or excited to adopt them quickly. - Proactively identify issues through monitoring and observability data. Then fix them, don't just flag them. - Contribute to architectural decisions that keep our platform scalable, reliable, and maintainable. - Share what you know, learn from others, and help your teammates grow. Engineering here is collaborative. We win together. Expectations timeline - 1 Month: You'll complete onboarding covering our product, tech stack, infrastructure, and vision. You'll meet people across the company, get familiar with our codebase, and ship your first contributions. You'll start building context on how our customers use Hygraph and what matters most to them. - 3 Months: You'll be delivering features and improvements to production with confidence. You'll have a solid understanding of Hygraph's product and architecture, and you'll be contributing ideas, not just code. You'll have built working relationships with your team lead, PMs, and fellow engineers through regular 1:1s, operational reviews, and day-to-day collaboration. - 6 Months: By now, you'll be making significant contributions to both the product and the team. You'll bring fresh perspectives from your experience and help raise the bar across performance, architecture, and how we work. You'll be someone the team relies on. Not because you do everything, but because you make everyone around you better. Qualifications - Significant experience (typically 6+ years) building and owning production systems, with strong full-stack skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and deep backend expertise (ideally Node.js). - Experience building user interfaces, ideally with React. - Experience developing well-tested APIs (GraphQL and/or REST). - Strong understanding of backend systems, scalability, and performance fundamentals. - Solid knowledge of relational databases (especially PostgreSQL), including schema design and query optimization. - Active use of AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, Codex, or similar) in your workflow, or a clear, demonstrated eagerness to adopt them. - Ability to work with ambiguity: rough prototypes, evolving requirements, and imperfect information. You use judgment and experience to fill the gaps. - Strong product sense. You think about why you're building something, not just how. You care about the customer experience, not just the code. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You speak up when something's off, share credit when things go well, and give feedback with respect and clarity. - A growth trajectory that shows steady improvement. You don't have to know everything, but you need to demonstrate that you learn fast and keep raising your own bar. Requirements - Bonus points: - Experience with on-call or operations (incident response, etc.), or openness to taking this on as we grow the team. - Experience with GraphQL and Golang. - Familiarity with cloud-native development (AWS, GCP). - Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools (Pulumi, Terraform). - Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (New Relic, Datadog, or similar). - Experience working directly with customers or in customer-facing roles. - Familiarity with headless CMS platforms or content infrastructure. The Process - Intro call with People Team - Interview with the Hiring Manager - Technical Interview - C-Level Call and Reference Check (optional) - Job Offer Company Description Hygraph is a dynamic Berlin-based startup and a GraphQL-native, API-first headless CMS built for teams delivering complex, composable digital experiences. Hygraph is on a mission to eliminate complexity for global teams and help them scale content without friction. Our platform empowers you to create, deliver, and distribute content faster and at scale. We’re a team committed to shaping the future of AI-powered content platforms. Trusted by over 50,000 teams worldwide, Hygraph powers structured content across websites, applications, product experiences, and AI-enabled systems. As AI reshapes how digital experiences are created and operated, Hygraph is helping organizations build on structured, trusted content foundations that enable human-first, AI-accelerated experiences at scale. You will be part of a remote-first, globally distributed team committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately. We believe in a remote-first approach where everyone is encouraged to do their best from wherever they are and work together with transparency, accountability, and ownership. We learn continuously through feedback and have a yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences. Hygraph is an equal-opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe that diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace's productivity and promote innovation and creativity.

Role Description We are looking for a Product Manager who will be part of the Product Team. We are focused on product adoption with an enterprise offering. You'll shape how enterprise teams experience structured content — turning the gap between technical power and editor usability into a competitive advantage for Hygraph. - Owning the product experience and feature set for your specific domain, grounded in customer outcomes and business strategy. - Regularly speaking to customers to solve issues, discuss new features, and identify new opportunities. - Run structured discovery — interviews, usability sessions, usage analysis — to understand how our customers use and struggle with Hygraph today. - Capturing insights and learning from competitor analysis, user research, and qualitative and quantitative data to inform new ideas and effective prioritisation. - Partner with engineering to brainstorm, scope, prioritize, and ship iteratively, and work with your team on shaping & delivery of relevant product improvements, carefully monitoring if they move the needle on the key metrics we have identified. - Collaborate with go-to-market teams to shape positioning, enablement materials, and launch plans. - Owning internal communication around your projects with other teams and relevant stakeholders. - Contributing to the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for your focus area. Qualifications - 3+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, ideally with CMS, PIM, DXP, or DAM. - Demonstrated track record of driving product development through research, planning, implementation, launch, analysis, and iteration cycles. - Experience of working in a goal-oriented way: you can tie product improvements to specific products and business goals and explain how they connect. - An analytical mindset and proven ability to analyse and synthesise data to inform decisions. - Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness in working closely with engineers. - Comfort working across dual audiences — developers who care about API ergonomics and content teams who care about workflow clarity. - Hands-on fluency with modern AI tools (Claude or equivalent) — you use them daily as a working partner across discovery, drafting, prototyping, and analysis, well beyond occasional ChatGPT prompts. - Collaborative and direct, you have a strong opinion that you can back with evidence. - Has experience in user research — interviews, synthesis, jobs-to-be-done mapping, or usability testing at a meaningful scale, or has a solid understanding of interaction design. Requirements - Nice to have: Experience with headless CMS, content infrastructure, or composable architecture. - Familiarity with GraphQL and how API design shapes developer experience. - Prior working experience in an async and hybrid work structure. The Process - Intro call with People Team - Interview with Hiring Manager - Live Session/Case study with team - Team Fit call and reference check - Job offer. Company Description Hygraph is a dynamic Berlin-based startup and a GraphQL-native, API-first headless CMS built for teams delivering complex, composable digital experiences. Hygraph is on a mission to eliminate complexity for global teams and help them scale content without friction. Our platform empowers you to create, deliver, and distribute content faster and at scale. We’re a team committed to shaping the future of AI-powered content platforms. Trusted by over 50,000 teams worldwide, Hygraph powers structured content across websites, applications, product experiences, and AI-enabled systems. As AI reshapes how digital experiences are created and operated, Hygraph is helping organizations build on structured, trusted content foundations that enable human-first, AI-accelerated experiences at scale. You will be part of a remote-first, globally distributed team committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately. We believe in a remote-first approach where everyone is encouraged to do their best from wherever they are and work together with transparency, accountability, and ownership. We learn continuously through feedback and have a yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences. Hygraph is an equal-opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe that diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace's productivity and promote innovation and creativity. Note: We are fortunate to receive a large number of applications for our roles. To manage this effectively and give each application the attention it deserves, we use AI-assisted tools to help assess certain screening questions and handle application elements. This helps us ensure a consistent and timely review process. All final hiring decisions are made exclusively by our human recruitment team.

How will you make an impact? We are looking for a (Senior) Product Designer who will be working on the end-to-end product design process. As a Senior Product Designer at Hygraph, you will be a key actor in realising our vision of the next step in CMS evolution - an agentic content platform. You will report to the Head of Product and work closely with the Creative Director to share ideas and knowledge. What you will be working on - Partner with Product and Engineering teams to define problem statements, conduct user research and shape both long-term vision and immediate tactical goals on the Product Design front. - Execute the full product design spectrum, spanning early-stage discovery and wire-framing through to final, production-grade UI. - Make key decisions in Hygraph’s next functional and visual steps towards the agentic content platform vision. - Champion design excellence through regular reviews with leadership and the broader product team. - Use AI tools to speed up the design process—using LLMs to summarize research and generative tools for rapid wireframing and early-stage exploration. Our expectations from you - 5+ years of experience at high-growth startups, specifically designing B2B SaaS products. - Expertise in the full design stack, with a proven track record in UI, UX, advanced prototyping, and user research. - Extensive experience as an individual contributor, with the ability to work autonomously and take full accountability for complex projects. - Ability to navigate the startup design role: push for excellence, but prioritise shipping fast iterations to learn quickly. - High proficiency with design and prototyping tools and having a decent understanding of front-end implementation (you don’t have to code, but it helps in collaborating with the engineers). - Keen to learn and always being up-to-date with the latest improvements in technology. - Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate the design lifecycle - Familiarity with Headless CMS and designing API-led products is a plus - Previous experience with designing AI features is a plus The Process - Intro call with People Team - Interview with Hiring Manager - Live Session/Case study with team - Call with C-Level Executive - Team Fit call and reference check - Job offer. The response time after application, screening applications, and setting up the first intro call is usually within 1-2 weeks. You could expect some alterations when necessary. About us Hygraph is a dynamic Berlin-based startup and a GraphQL-native, API-first headless CMS built for teams delivering complex, composable digital experiences. Hygraph is on a mission to eliminate complexity for global teams and help them scale content without friction. Our platform empowers you to create, deliver, and distribute content faster and at scale. We’re a team committed to shaping the future of AI-powered content platforms. Trusted by over 50,000 teams worldwide, Hygraph powers structured content across websites, applications, product experiences, and AI-enabled systems. As AI reshapes how digital experiences are created and operated, Hygraph is helping organizations build on structured, trusted content foundations that enable human-first, AI-accelerated experiences at scale. You will be part of a remote-first, globally distributed team committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately. We believe in a remote-first approach where everyone is encouraged to do their best from wherever they are and work together with transparency, accountability, and ownership. We learn continuously through feedback and have a yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences. Hygraph is an equal-opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe that diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace's productivity and promote innovation and creativity. Note: We are fortunate to receive a large number of applications for our roles. To manage this effectively and give each application the attention it deserves, we use AI-assisted tools to help assess certain screening questions and handle application elements. This helps us ensure a consistent and timely review process. All final hiring decisions are made exclusively by our human recruitment team.

How will you make an impact? As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll work at the intersection of engineering and product to shape how our users build with Hygraph. You'll ship features that solve real customer problems, contribute to our CMS core, extend our platform capabilities, and help bring AI-powered features to life. You won't wait for perfect specs or pixel-perfect designs. You'll use your judgment, collaborate closely with PMs and customers, and move fast using modern AI-assisted development tools. This role is for someone who sees engineering as a team sport, takes ownership without waiting for permission, and thrives in an environment where initiative matters more than instructions. What you will be working on: - Core CMS development: Evolve the GraphQL-native CMS powering enterprise teams worldwide, improving performance, reliability, and developer experience. - CMS extensions and integrations: Develop and maintain extensions that expand what customers can do with Hygraph. - AI-powered features: Contribute to our AI roadmap by building intelligent capabilities into the product. - Customer-facing improvements: Use monitoring data, customer feedback, and your product instinct to proactively identify and fix problems before they're reported. Some of your tasks and responsibilities: - Collaborate in a cross-functional, autonomous team to deliver features and continuous improvements, often working from rough prototypes or early concepts rather than polished designs. - Translate business needs into technical solutions by working closely with Product Managers. Occasionally, participate in customer conversations to validate that what you're building actually solves their problems. - Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude, Codex, or similar) to accelerate development, or excited to adopt them quickly. - Proactively identify issues through monitoring and observability data. Then fix them, don't just flag them. - Contribute to architectural decisions that keep our platform scalable, reliable, and maintainable. - Share what you know, learn from others, and help your teammates grow. Engineering here is collaborative. We win together. Expectations timeline 1 Month You'll complete onboarding covering our product, tech stack, infrastructure, and vision. You'll meet people across the company, get familiar with our codebase, and ship your first contributions. You'll start building context on how our customers use Hygraph and what matters most to them. 3 Months You'll be delivering features and improvements to production with confidence. You'll have a solid understanding of Hygraph's product and architecture, and you'll be contributing ideas, not just code. You'll have built working relationships with your team lead, PMs, and fellow engineers through regular 1:1s, operational reviews, and day-to-day collaboration. 6 Months By now, you'll be making significant contributions to both the product and the team. You'll bring fresh perspectives from your experience and help raise the bar across performance, architecture, and how we work. You'll be someone the team relies on. Not because you do everything, but because you make everyone around you better. What we expect from you: - Significant experience (typically 6+ years) building and owning production systems, with strong full-stack skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and deep backend expertise (ideally Node.js). - Experience building user interfaces, ideally with React. - Experience developing well-tested APIs (GraphQL and/or REST). - Strong understanding of backend systems, scalability, and performance fundamentals. - Solid knowledge of relational databases (especially PostgreSQL), including schema design and query optimization. - Active use of AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, Codex, or similar) in your workflow, or a clear, demonstrated eagerness to adopt them. - Ability to work with ambiguity: rough prototypes, evolving requirements, and imperfect information. You use judgment and experience to fill the gaps. - Strong product sense. You think about why you're building something, not just how. You care about the customer experience, not just the code. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You speak up when something's off, share credit when things go well, and give feedback with respect and clarity. - A growth trajectory that shows steady improvement. You don't have to know everything, but you need to demonstrate that you learn fast and keep raising your own bar. Bonus points: - Experience with on-call or operations (incident response, etc.), or openness to taking this on as we grow the team. - Experience with GraphQL and Golang. - Familiarity with cloud-native development (AWS, GCP). - Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools (Pulumi, Terraform). - Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (New Relic, Datadog, or similar). - Experience working directly with customers or in customer-facing roles. - Familiarity with headless CMS platforms or content infrastructure. The Process - Intro call with People Team - Interview with the Hiring Manager - Technical Interview - C-Level Call and Reference Check (optional) - Job Offer The response time after application, screening applications, and setting up the first intro call is usually within 1-2 weeks. You could expect some alterations when necessary. About us Hygraph is a dynamic Berlin-based startup and a GraphQL-native, API-first headless CMS built for teams delivering complex, composable digital experiences. Hygraph is on a mission to eliminate complexity for global teams and help them scale content without friction. Our platform empowers you to create, deliver, and distribute content faster and at scale. We’re a team committed to shaping the future of AI-powered content platforms. Trusted by over 50,000 teams worldwide, Hygraph powers structured content across websites, applications, product experiences, and AI-enabled systems. As AI reshapes how digital experiences are created and operated, Hygraph is helping organizations build on structured, trusted content foundations that enable human-first, AI-accelerated experiences at scale. You will be part of a remote-first, globally distributed team committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately. We believe in a remote-first approach where everyone is encouraged to do their best from wherever they are and work together with transparency, accountability, and ownership. We learn continuously through feedback and have a yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences. Hygraph is an equal-opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe that diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace's productivity and promote innovation and creativity. Note: We are fortunate to receive a large number of applications for our roles. To manage this effectively and give each application the attention it deserves, we use AI-assisted tools to help assess certain screening questions and handle application elements. This helps us ensure a consistent and timely review process. All final hiring decisions are made exclusively by our human recruitment team.