Senior Backend Engineer – Claims
dentolo
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berlin • Germany
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About the role
- Build a solid and scalable claims automation architecture aligned with long-term business and product goals, involving backend logic, AI components and cloud infrastructure.
- Acquire a deep understanding of the claims business domain and map it into maintainable code and systems that are easy to evolve.
- Identify code that requires renewal and help your team transform systems running under high utilization.
- Provide technical guidance and help raise the bar for engineering quality within the squad.
- Support your team to maintain high system reliability and performance, fostering a “you build it, you run it” mindset grounded in end-to-end ownership.
- Ensure the systems of your team meet security and compliance requirements by promoting security as a first-class citizen.
- Influence your team’s software delivery practices, improving tooling and automation to increase team productivity.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design and stakeholders of your team to ensure solutions are aligned with business and customer needs.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on web application backends.
- Strong analytical and architectural skills applied to complex, domain-driven systems.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and software design best practices.
- Experience evolving technical foundations in a fast-growing environment.
- Hands-on experience building applications on public cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
- Excellent domain modeling and relational database design skills.
- Experience designing and operating asynchronous processing systems.
- Experience designing, evolving, and maintaining RESTful APIs.
- Proficiency in more than one programming language, ideally including Ruby.
- Experience working with Ruby on Rails or the willingness to quickly ramp up.
- Proven ownership of production systems, including observability, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement.
- Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams together with product, frontend, and quality engineering.
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Extra: Experience with integrating AI into customer-facing production systems.
- Experience building products in the context of insurance, banking or logistics.
- Experience in process automation architecture.
Benefits
- Attractive fixed salary
- Start with 28 vacation days, with an increase every two years (capped at 30 days). Holidays on December 24th and 31st.
- Choose between a free Swapfiets bike, a BVG ticket (“Umweltticket”) or a “Deutschlandticket” subsidized by us
- Work hybrid - from your home office or in our office in Berlin-Mitte
- Work abroad in the EU for up to 60 days
- Benefit from free coaching sessions with nilo.health, our mental health tool
- Test our products yourself! Choose between dentolo, petolo or vitolo
- Learning Budget starting from 750 € per year
- Regular (360 degree) feedback
- Legendary summer and winter parties
- Regular team events
- Many discounts on the corporate Benefits Platform
- Two Community Days per calendar year
- Pet friendly office
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend developmentcloud infrastructuredistributed systemssoftware design best practicesRESTful APIsRubyRuby on Railsasynchronous processing systemsrelational database designprocess automation architecture
Soft Skills
analytical skillsarchitectural skillsteam collaborationcommunication skillstechnical guidanceownership mindsetengineering qualityproduct alignmentcustomer needs focuscontinuous improvement