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Ruby Backend Developer (m/f/x)

Created on 14-05-2020
Location Remote

Description

Who are we looking for::

We believe engineering is one of the most critical functions at a tech company. Getsafe is growing and we are looking for experienced developers with a passion for Ruby on Rails, who like to tackle new challenges.As a Ruby Backend Developer (m/f/x) at Getsafe, your mission is to shape the insurance sector of tomorrow by developing our B2C platform. Besides building services for multi-market insurance management, payment infrastructure or claim management, we are also creating an ecosystem of libraries and building blocks that allow us to kickstart new projects and features in no time.

Your Mission::

  • Programming: As a part of our 13 heads development team you are responsible to develop new features for our product and implement concepts of our product owners.
  • Planning: You will support our product owners with your technical expertise during planning processes.
  • Improving: You will do code reviews and tests to keep a high standard of code quality and constantly improve our technical environment and architecture to scale with the needs of our business.
  • Further development: You help and advise new developer colleagues during their onboarding process, share your ideas and work closely with all other team members to create a solid, consistent and scalable technical fundament.
Our Tech-Stack: 
  • Service-oriented architecture of ~5 independent services
  • Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, Redis
  • We are running on Heroku and AWS
  • API-first approach with REST-like interfaces
  • We develop and maintain our own ruby gems to share common solutions across applications
  • Application of event sourcing and state machines to achieve extensibility and reproducibility

About You::

  • You are an expert when it comes to programming (preferred object oriented language)
  • You have a passion for Ruby on Rails and new technologies and got previous experience with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, RSpec, Heroku
  • Service Oriented Architecture is a plus but not required as long as you are willing to tackle a steep learning curve
  • Strong knowledge of software development (DRY, KISS, SOLID, DDD), testing and continuous integration/delivery.
  • Experience with relational databases
  • Solid understanding of integrating and building well tested and documented APIs
  • You are eager to work in an agile and ever-changing environment
  • You have the ability to distill a complex problem into its essential elements, and clearly communicate your vision to the team
  • You have excellent communication skills, high quality awareness, hands-on mentality, team spirit and willingness to learn

You can look forward to::

  • Ownership over various areas to define and show off your talents, with space to develop your own ideas
  • You will be working in a team with experienced developers that highly value design principles, clean code and try to improve together continuously
  • A dynamic culture where great ideas always beat hierarchy
  • Free choice of your own development environment from hardware to software
  • Enjoy open communication and transparency within departments
  • A fully stocked kitchen with free drinks as well as muesli, yogurt, and fresh fruits
  • A discounted transit ticket from Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH
  • Speaking German is not required at Getsafe. We are a multicultural team that operates in English. We also offer free German classes for those who are interested
  • We also help with relocation, work permit, and other administrative issues
Due to the Covid-19 situation, we provide all the technical equipment for your remote start! 
Join Us and Grow with Us!
We are looking forward to your application.Please apply online only, as we cannot accept applications by e-mail or postal. Your contact person at Getsafe is Ana Hanssen.

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