Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d)

Since our launch in 2018, we’ve grown from our headquarters in Heidelberg and office in Berlin to serving more than 500,000 customers across Germany, Austria, and France. Backed by €120M from leading investors such as Earlybird, CommerzVentures, and Swiss Re, we’ve become one of Europe’s fastest-growing insurtechs.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our platform team. Our Platform team’s mission is to keep our customers and operations teams happy by building the Insurance Platform parts of which are Policy Management, Claims and Operations systems.

In this role, you will work on backend features of our insurance platform while also developing internal tools and automation that improve efficiency for engineering and other teams across the company. This includes building systems and emerging agentic tooling that streamline workflows, reduce operational overhead, and enable teams to move faster. 

• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to define and implement the vision for a scalable system architecture for our insurance platform that supports our growing portfolio and customer base.
• Own and contribute to our evolving list of internal tools starting with Ruby libraries and lately more and more agentic tools in engineering and beyond.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that promotes best practices and enables others.
• Explore and propose new technologies to streamline processes and improve system efficiency.
• Champion engineering best practices and help elevate our tech stack to the next level, setting standards for the organization.
• Create reusable solutions that help teams scale faster and avoid one-off workarounds.

• Experience: 5+ years of backend development experience, working on complex systems and platform solutions.

• Strong passion for building, maintaining, and improving platform tooling, libraries, solutions, and processes that empower multiple engineering teams and enhance the overall developer experience.

• Ruby on Rails: Solid experience with Ruby on Rails and a deep understanding of how to develop high-quality, reliable software.

• Agentic Engineering: Good understanding of working with coding agents from planning to delivery.

• Collaboration: Strong communicator, able to work across teams and translate technical vision into actionable plans.

• Problem-Solving: You can break down complex problems into manageable parts and communicate solutions clearly to your team and other stakeholders.

• Quality-Driven: Commitment to delivering solutions that are well-tested, reliable, and maintainable.

• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and AWS is a plus.

• Proven experience in fintech environments or startups is a plus.

• Distributed architecture of 10+ independent RESTful services

• Ruby on Rails

• PostgreSQL, Kafka, Sidekiq, Redis

• Terraform, Qovery (Kubernetes) and AWS

• Datadog

• Join us in Berlin or Heidelberg and be part of our hybrid culture, with the flexibility to work remotely.
• Be part of our growth journey through our Employee Stock Ownership Program (VSOPs), where you can claim your stake in the company and share in our success.
• Celebrate with us at regular team gatherings, including company strategy weeks, onsite events, local meet ups, seasonal celebrations, and after work socials.

• Monthly €50 flex benefit budget, allowing you to choose what suits you best – whether it’s the Germany Ticket, office lunches, remote setup, or company health insurance (bkV).
• Monthly Getsafe insurance voucher to safeguard what matters most to you.
• Workation for 90 days within the EU, giving you more freedom to balance work and travel.

• Balance: 30 vacation days – enjoy 28 regular days and 2 special days – your birthday and half days on December 24th & 31st.
• Growth: Benefit from our annual €1,000 development budget to invest in your personal and professional growth.

Getsafe is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.