Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop backend features for the insurance platform, automate internal processes, and work on tools using Ruby on Rails, Terraform, and AWS to enhance efficiency within teams.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our growth team. Our growth team's mission is to keep our customers and operations teams happy by building the Insurance Platform parts used for insurance product launches, policy administration, marketing and sales.
- In this role, you will work on backend features of our insurance platform while also contributing to internal tools and automation that improve efficiency for engineering and other teams across the company. This includes building systems and emerging agentic tooling that streamline workflows, reduce operational overhead, and enable teams to move faster.
- Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to define and implement the vision for a scalable system architecture for our insurance platform that supports our growing portfolio and customer base.
- Own and contribute to our evolving list of internal tools starting with Ruby libraries and agentic tools in engineering and beyond.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that promotes best practices and enables others.
- Explore and propose new technologies to streamline processes and improve system efficiency.
- Champion engineering best practices and help elevate our tech stack to the next level, setting standards for the organization.
- Create reusable solutions that help teams scale faster and avoid one-off workarounds.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Agentic Engineering: Good understanding of working with coding agents from planning to delivery.
- Collaboration: Strong communicator, able to work across teams and translate technical vision into actionable plans.
- Problem-Solving: You can break down complex problems into manageable parts and communicate solutions clearly to your team and other stakeholders.
- Quality-Driven: Commitment to delivering solutions that are well-tested, reliable, and maintainable.
Experience
- Experience: 5+ years of backend development experience, working on complex systems and platform solutions.
- Strong passion for building, maintaining, and improving platform tooling, libraries, solutions, and processes that empower multiple engineering teams and enhance the overall developer experience.
- Ruby on Rails: Solid experience with Ruby on Rails and a deep understanding of how to develop high-quality, reliable software.
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and AWS is a plus.
- Proven experience in fintech environments or startups is a plus.
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What we offer
- Front row seat at one of Europe's leading insurtechs that redefines how millions of people experience insurance every day.
- Diverse and high-performing team that thrives on ownership, speed, and constantly raising the bar.
- Hybrid or on-site setup across our hubs in Heidelberg (Europaplatz) and Berlin (Eberswalder Straße).
- Competitive salary plus company-wide VSOP program.
- Claude Max and the latest hardware and productivity tools.
- €1,000 annual development budget.
- €50 monthly benefit budget.
- Monthly Getsafe insurance voucher.
- 28 vacation days plus birthday and December 24th & 31st off.
- 90 workation days within the EU.
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Getsafe GmbH
Seit dem Start in Deutschland im Jahr 2018 hat sich Getsafe zu einem der am besten bewerteten Versicherungsunternehmen in Europa entwickelt. Das Unternehmen mit dem Hauptsitz in Heidelberg, Deutschland, und Niederlassungen in London und Berlin beschäftigt mehr als 150 Mitarbeiter.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Banking, Finance, Insurance
Senior Backend Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
