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Ruby Backend Developer (m/f/d) // Open for Remote

Created on 15-05-2020
Location Heidelberg

Description

Who are we looking for::

As one of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe, we’re always looking for ambitious employees with a pioneering spirit. Together, we are changing one of the largest industries in the world – the insurance industry.Join the challenge: We grow together!We develop individually but grow together. To achieve this, we demand a lot of ourselves. We always strive to create a fantastic and encouraging working atmosphere as well as a positive leadership culture and offer many career development opportunities. Our vision is to be one of the very best employers.

Your Mission::

As a Ruby Backend Developer 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.
  • Programming: As a part of our 15 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
Our HQ is in Heidelberg, where most of our team is based, but we’re open to having you be a remote member of the team as well as long as you are located in Germany or the UK.

About You::

  • You are an expert when it comes to programming (preferred object oriented language)
  • You have a passion for Ruby on Rails and other new technologies
  • You have previous experience with PostgreSQL, RSpec and 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::

  • You work in a fast, flexible and value-oriented company with flat hierarchies and helpful colleagues
  • A positive, focused, appreciative, and goal-oriented atmosphere. Getsafe is shaped by each and every one of us. We are a close-knit team and host after work events and foosball tournaments. Our working environment is our heart and soul
  • A competitive remuneration package with trust-based working hours as well as sustainable career and development opportunities. We invest in your growth
  • Various benefits, such as a welcome gift, an insurance voucher, an "Employees Recruit Employees" premium payment, Rocket Internet discounts and much more
  • Support for relocation as well as free German classes, if needed
  • Modern and spacious rooms kitted out with the best equipment offer you all the possibilities to work freely. We have adjustable tables, comfortable couches, community areas and even a roof terrace – what do you feel like doing today?
  • Do you live further away? No problem: You will receive a job ticket from Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH. Our office is located near Heidelberg city centre and the railway station, with excellent transport connections!
  • Free drinks, snacks, muesli, yogurt and fresh fruit await you, including great conversations in the kitchen

 Join Getsafe and grow with us!We are looking forward to your application.Please apply online only, with an indication whether you are interested in a remote position or an onsite position. Your contact person at Getsafe: Jule Stellrecht



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