Full Stack Web Engineer, Italy

About us
Berry, part of ION Group since 2023, is a technology development boutique with an elite team dedicated to research in financial markets. Berry specializes in creating state-of-the-art scraping architectures to populate databases and has developed innovative products—bit, brick, and search—that transformed how the distressed credit market collects and analyzes data. Berry is now scaling up to strengthen its role as a tech provider in Italy and expand into international markets.
ION Group: a community of visionary innovators, dedicated to providing pioneering software and consultancy services to financial institutions, trading firms, central banks, governments, and corporations worldwide. We strive to simplify the way people work by delivering workflow and process automation software, real-time data, and business intelligence to help people make better decisions. We are 13,000+ employees, operate globally with 80+ offices, and serve over 4,800+ customers worldwide.

We’re on the hunt for a Full Stack Web Engineer to join Berry’s growing tech team. If you love solving complex problems, building smart tools, and working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment—this is the place for you. You’ll be part of a dynamic crew, working side-by-side with developers, data scientists, and product experts to bring ideas to life and push boundaries.

Curious? Learn more at iongroup.com and berrysrl.it.

Your role
As part of our tech team, you’ll be right in the middle of projects that truly shape Berry’s products and tech stack. Here’s what you’ll be doing:
· Improving our products (bit, brick, berry search) and building infrastructure that scales globally
· Designing and deploying secure software solutions on cloud platforms
· Creating internal tools, scripts, and new methodologies to boost productivity
· Bringing fresh ideas and solutions to ongoing and upcoming projects
· Supporting and mentoring other developers—because teamwork matters
· Collaborating with our data science team to extract insights from massive datasets and integrate them into predictive models and LLMs.

Practically, what will you do?
· Write code and tests in TypeScript (and a bit of Python) for services like:
o Data collection and scraping
o MCP Server and Client with LLM models
o Backend microservices and orchestrators
· Deploy your code on Google Cloud Platform (serverless microservices architecture)
· Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines
· Work side-by-side with an incredibly welcoming, now international team
· If you’re into data, you’ll also:
o Extract info from unstructured data and feed it into predictive models and LLMs
o Spot patterns in huge databases—we download between 100GB and 1TB of data per day
· Collaborate daily with talented engineers, designers, data scientists, and finance pros
· Learn and grow at lightning speed
· Teach us how to be an even better team.

Technologies you’ll work with
· Backend: Node.js, TypeScript (some microservices in Python), Google Cloud (Run, Tasks, and other core components), MongoDB, Kafka and bull MQ, Redis
· Frontend: React
· Tools: CLI, GitHub, VSCode, WebStorm, Cursor
· Best practices: Continuous refactoring, testing, CI/CD, SonarQube.

Your skills, experience, and qualifications required
· Master’s degree in engineering or a quantitative field (preferably with honors)
· Preferably at least 1–2 years of experience as a Full Stack Engineer, including architectural design of complex applications and cloud deployment
· Strong knowledge of TypeScript and familiarity with Python
· Experience with microservices architecture and CI/CD pipelines
· Curiosity, problem-solving mindset, and ability to make sound technical decisions
· English proficiency
· Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
· Strong hands-on attitude.

What we offer
· Permanent employment contract
· Opportunity to work in a diverse, international team of engineers and make a real impact
· Cutting-edge tools and technologies, continuous learning, and career growth
· Support for an ambitious leap forward in your career
· Collaborate with an international team (Italy, UK, Poland, USA, India).

Location
Milan, Roma, Bari.

Important notes
According to Italian Law (L.68/99), candidates from the disability list will be given priority.