(Senior) Backend Developer * - IT

About

Founded in 2015, getolo GmbH is an innovative and award-winning InsurTech company that offers comprehensive supplementary insurance plans in the areas of dental, pet health and liability, as well as health add-on coverage. Thanks to the close collaboration of our team of market specialists and insurance experts, we continuously monitor industry developments to offer practical solutions for current challenges.

getolo's company culture is built on collaboration, innovation, and agility—always with a strong focus on the needs of our customers. We strive to create a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all our team members, regardless of ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, limitations and talents of any kind, physical appearance, social background, marital status, age, or religion (or lack thereof).

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Role

Our team is growing, and we’re looking for a versatile Senior Backend Engineer - Claims (m/f/d) to join our cross-functional Claims Squad. You will design and build solutions involving APIs, backend logic and AI-augmented processing, ensuring that our architecture and code base supports the product and company goals in a sustainable fashion. Success in this role requires a high level of ownership across the entire software delivery lifecycle, the ability to transform intricate business logic into scalable and performant code, and a solid understanding of distributed systems. The best candidates blend software craftsmanship, experience delivering AI-augmented solutions and a cloud-native mindset, and take their motivation from using technology to create an amazing customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Acquire a deep understanding of the claims business domain and map it into maintainable code and systems that are easy to evolve.
• 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.

About You

• You care deeply about all aspects of software engineering and are used to create coherent solutions across the whole tech stack.
• You are enthusiastic about technology and utilizing it to improve the experience of customers.
• You’re drawn to complex domains and love building software that is semantically rich yet easy to understand.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on web application backends.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and software design best practices.
• Hands-on experience building applications on public cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• 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.

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
• Benefit from free coaching sessions with nilo.
• Regular team events
• Many discounts on the corporate Benefits Platform
• Pet friendly office