Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 March 27

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Friendsurance

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51 - 200 employees

We believe that dealing with insurance should bring a smile on your face. That’s why Friendsurance develops innovative digital insurance solutions with the aim of making insurance more customer-friendly.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Attractive salary and vacation policy • Flexible working hours and mobile-work • A big and lovely designed office in Berlin-Kreuzberg with plenty of rooms for creativity and the typical startup amenities • A generous yearly personal development budget • Legendary team events and parties • Urban Sports Membership subsidy • Language learning support for German and English • A unique and international team • And much more!