Senior Backend Developer

🕒 June 23

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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blau direkt

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1999

💳 Fintech

🛡️ Insurance

☁️ SaaS

Fintech • Insurance • SaaS

blau direkt is a technology-driven provider for insurance brokers, offering a comprehensive platform to streamline insurance and investment processes. With over twenty years of experience, the company aims to enhance the productivity and efficiency of broker operations through innovative software solutions and automation tools. Their services cater to small and medium businesses, large corporations, and startups, focusing on digital transformation to reduce operational costs and improve customer satisfaction.

📋 Description

• Design and develop robust, scalable web applications • Develop service-oriented interfaces to integrate complex business logic • Sustainably maintain and technologically advance legacy systems and existing applications • Serve as the technical point of contact for third-level support • Analyze functional requirements and identify the root causes of incidents • Proactively support solution discovery and release planning • Execute incident-response processes, including escalation, stakeholder communication, and documentation • Plan, manage, and optimize databases • Coordinate tasks within the team and implement technical specifications in structured sprint phases • Evaluate new functional and technical requirements with internal stakeholders • Translate requirements into solution concepts and provide advisory input during planning • Independently create and maintain development documentation • Co-design technical architectures for existing and new applications and services • Make architecture and design decisions regarding scalability, maintainability, and performance • Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality • Implement critical hotfixes to ensure system stability

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent qualification • At least five years of experience in backend development within a PHP environment • Solid experience with PHP (versions 7.3 to 8.4) • Experience with PHP frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, or Slim • Experience in database administration with MySQL • Experience with SOAP web services and JSON APIs • Experience working in development teams and effective team communication • Knowledge of Git/GitLab and SCRUM • Experience with automated testing, e.g., Codeception • Experience conducting code reviews • Ability to respond quickly and solution-oriented to technical incidents • Experience implementing critical hotfixes • Familiarity with Composer and modern package management systems • Practical experience in designing and evolving software architectures • Ability to translate functional requirements into sustainable technical solutions • Business-fluent German (at least C2) • Ability to work independently and to quickly get up to speed on new topics

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional and personal development opportunities • Flexible working models: fully remote, on-site, or hybrid • Access to company health insurance • Company pension plan • Modern, creative, and innovative work environment • Committed, fair, and open team • Supportive colleagues and shared team growth