Senior Backend Engineer, Friendsurance
Digital insurance solutions
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Digital insurance solutions
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the best digital insurance platform to make people feel at home.
Role
Who you are
- Someone who is not only confident dealing with industry adopted technologies and Software Design approaches, but also likes to challenge the status quo
- You’re a seasoned backend engineer with a solid Java background and a hands-on approach
- Have 5+ years of experience building Java backend systems with Spring, Hibernate, and the tools that come with modern software development
- Have worked in a startup or fast-moving product environment, and are comfortable adapting quickly and making progress, even when things are changing constantly
- Feel good taking a system from idea to production—and are able to debug and solve problems across the stack
- Have worked on both monoliths and microservices, including systems with asynchronous communication (e.g. queues, events, messaging)
- Know how to apply AI tools practically—for your own productivity and in what you build
- Can design solid, practical architecture—and know how to balance long-term quality with short-term needs
- Understand data structures, relational models, and different kinds of backends—and can choose what fits best
- Enjoy working with others, whether it’s writing something down clearly, pairing on a problem, or just hashing things out on a whiteboard
- Communicate fluently in English
- Care about the team’s success —and help people around you grow and do their best work
- Are reliable, respectful, and make the team better—technically and personally
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer - Java (m/f/d) to join our skilled and collaborative technical team as a key contributor
- This is a full time job with significant responsibility, joining us based in Berlin or Germany
- Design and implement solutions primarily in Java with high impact and a great deal of autonomy
- Maintain and enhance our flagship multi-tenant white-label B2B2C SaaS platform
- Develop new and exciting products with AI, whether standalone or integrated
- Continuously improve our development lifecycle with modern methods and technologies—both individually and as a team
- Propose, review, improve, and explore the solution-space with team members from all professions
- Review test cases, designs, and code developed by other team-members
- Own significant parts of the runtime together with our in-house SREs, embracing “you ship it – you own it”
- Collaborate with Front-End, QA, Infrastructure, and Data professionals on interfaces, shared definitions, and common objectives
- Coach and train team members on best practices and help the team learn
- Shape our engineering culture by sharing curiosity, kindness, and craftsmanship—every day, by simply being yourself
- You build software that makes a real difference for serious customers
- You raise the bar by bringing clarity, care, and initiative to the team—technically and interpersonally
- You push what's possible, applying AI and modern tools to make both the product and the team smarter
- Our Stack
- Backend: Java, Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Spring Boot
- Frontend: ReactJS, TypeScript, Redux, SASS
- QA: Selenium, Galen, Serenity, JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Mocha
- Build and Deploy: Jenkins, git, npm, Maven, Docker
- Infrastructure: AWS, Troposphere (python), Stacker, Cloudformation, Terraform (Infrastructure), Ansible, EKS (k8s)
- Agile: Kanban and Scrum
Our take
Managing your insurance contracts can be a frustrating and time-consuming process. Friendsurance sets out to solve this problem with its innovative digital insurance solutions.
The company launched its peer-to-peer insurance model in 2010, making it the first provider of its kind. Two years later, the company expanded into the lucrative B2B market, creating digital solutions for some of the biggest names in banking and insurance, including Deutsche Bank and Allianz.
Friendsurance's main challenge has been competing with new insurtech disruptors, especially fellow peer-to-peer companies such as Lemonade. Nonetheless, Friendsurance's head start allowed it to carve out a solid market position that has seen it build up both avenues of its business and present new solutions through its digital bancassurance platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2016
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $15m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours & work from anywhere
- Personal development budget, continuous feedback & yearly career development talks
- Free German classes, free sports classes, a whole bunch of team events & more benefits
- We provide visa & relocation support
Company HQ
Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Janis Meyer Plath
(CMO & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Business Development Executive at Shell, before co-founding Dreambookers in 2008.
Tim Kunde
(Managing Director & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Senior Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. Was CEO of JT Internet, a Rocket Internet company.
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