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Senior Backend Engineer - Platform (m/w/d)

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💎 Seniority level: Senior, 6+ years

📍 Location: Germany

🔍 Industry: Insurtech

🏢 Company: Getsafe

🗣️ Languages: English, German

⏳ Experience: 6+ years

🪄 Skills: Backend DevelopmentPostgreSQLKafkaRuby on RailsRedisRESTful APIs

Requirements:
  • 6+ years of backend development experience, working on complex systems and platform solutions.
  • Proven experience building platform tooling, libraries, solutions, and processes that support multiple engineering teams.
  • Strong communicator, able to work across teams and translate technical vision into actionable plans.
  • Solid experience with Ruby on Rails and a deep understanding of how to develop high-quality, reliable software.
  • Ability to break down complex problems into manageable parts and communicate solutions clearly to your team and other stakeholders.
  • Commitment to delivering solutions that are well-tested, reliable, and maintainable.
Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with the team to define and implement the vision for a scalable system architecture that supports our growing portfolio and customer base.
  • Build and maintain tools, libraries, and observability solutions to empower other engineering teams in shipping features and achieving KPIs.
  • Explore and propose new technologies to streamline processes and improve system efficiency.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that promotes best practices and enables others.
  • Create reusable solutions that help teams scale faster and avoid one-off workarounds.
  • Champion engineering best practices and help elevate our tech stack to the next level, setting standards for the organization.
  • Implement platform solutions and processes (e.g., load testing, database backup restoration automation, authorization, anonymization, etc.) and document them for internal usage.
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