Jobs

Work with Simon and Jochen and Fabian and Jakob and our customers

We build a SaaS product to manage data products with data contracts. Based on open standards and open source. Entropy Data is sustainably profitable company, without venture capital.

You

You are a lead or staff engineer. You want to work remotely. You are fluent in English and German.

We are looking for great engineers who like to work with people and help us make our customers successful.

How We Work

We have families and young kids. Work-life balance is important to us. That's why we focus work on what matters.

  • We work closely together especially on ideas and ADRs
  • We embrace async communication
  • We aim for a WIP of 1
  • We use trunk-based development
  • We follow a zero-bug policy
  • We all talk to customers
  • We value good UX

What We Don't Do

Wir machen keinen Quatsch!

  • No SAFe
  • No Scrum
  • No crunch
  • No regular meetings
  • No performance reviews

Our Tech Stack

We prefer a boring tech stack. So we can focus on delivering.

  • Kotlin
  • Spring Boot
  • Postgres
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Python for Data Contract CLI
  • React for Data Contract Editor

Our Infrastructure

Nothing special. So we can sleep well at night.

  • A single Docker container
  • Hosting on Azure
  • Observability with Dash0 using OpenTelemetry
  • Infra-as-code with Terraform

Our Tools

We discuss design decisions together. Then we embrace agentic coding.

  • Zoom
  • Slack
  • IntelliJ
  • Claude Code

Your work becomes visible

We help you to accelerate your career and build your professional brand.

  • Contribute to open standards like Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS)
  • Work on popular open source tools like Data Contract CLI and Data Contract Editor
  • Give talks at conferences and meetups like DATA Festival, BigData London, or TDWI
  • Share your knowledge on LinkedIn, Substack, or your blog
  • Shape our product used by many large enterprises worldwide

Compensation

Money is important. This is the package:

  • Fixed salary of EUR 90,000 per year
  • No variable component, bonus, equity, etc.
  • The hardware you love (a MacBook Pro of your choice, a 5K monitor, a Blue Yeti or Rode mic, an ergonomic Vitra office chair, ...)
  • Optionally, we can discuss co-working or office allowance
  • Optionally, a company car via salary conversion

Let's talk

Interested? Reach out to Simon on LinkedIn. We don't need a cover letter or CV. All genders welcome.

Contact Simon