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Senior Backend Engineer

Confidential company · Berlin · Posted Jun 25, 2026

Public summary

Join a fast-growing European insurtech company reinventing digital insurance with an innovative tech platform and app serving over 500,000 customers across Germany, Austria, and France. The role focuses on backend development for an insurance platform that supports product launches, policy administration, marketing, and sales. Work with a diverse, high-performing team in offices located in Heidelberg and Berlin.

Location and work setup

Location
Berlin
Remote status
Hybrid
German requirement signal
No German Required Detected
Detected job language
English

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable system architecture for the insurance platform; develop and maintain internal tools and automation to improve operational efficiency; write clean and maintainable code; explore and integrate new technologies; champion engineering best practices; create reusable solutions to help teams scale efficiently.

Qualifications

5+ years of backend development experience with complex system and platform solutions; strong expertise in Ruby on Rails; experience with building and improving platform tooling and libraries; understanding of agentic engineering concepts; strong communication and collaboration skills; problem-solving and quality-driven approach; familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS preferred; experience in fintech or startup environments is a plus.

Skills

Ruby on Rails Backend Development RESTful Services PostgreSQL Kafka Sidekiq Redis Terraform Kubernetes AWS Software Architecture Automation Agentic Engineering