Senior Ruby Backend Engineer with affinity for observability (d/w/m)

Hypofriend GmbH; Berlin; Vor Ort; Vertraulich; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Stock options

€1,500 learning budget

MacBook provided

Urban Sports Membership

Flexible remote/hybrid work

Zusammenfassung

Hypofriend GmbH in Berlin is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who loves observability and reliability. You’ll work on customer-facing calculators, back-office tools, and a calculation engine running on AWS, Rails, Ruby, and Vue.js.

You’ll collaborate with frontend and product teams, write infrastructure-as-code, and help build resilient systems with Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD. A strong focus on security and performance is essential.

Qualifikationen

• Strong Ruby experience (4–5 years) and Rails familiarity.
• RSpec experience and OO design skills.
• Hands-on with AWS, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

Aufgaben

• Support customer- and advisor-facing products on AWS stack.
• Improve reliability and security of calculation engines and back-office tools.
• Collaborate with backend engineers and product teams to implement observability.
• Respond to incidents and participate in postmortems.

Kenntnisse

Ruby

RSpec

OO patterns

Observability

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Incident response

Tools

GitHub

Datadog

Sentry

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

Hypofriend has helped thousands of customers navigate the difficult journey of buying a home. Our online platform helps customers from calculating their affordability to getting matched to relevant properties to calculating and processing the optimal mortgage.

As a Senior Backend Engineer with an affinity for observability, you would be supporting both a customer-facing and an advisor-facing product that run on Vue.js, GraphQL, and Ruby on Rails, powered by AWS. Our customer-facing products include complex calculators wrapped in a simple UI, with a powerful calculation engine that takes thousands of mortgage products and optimizes them for our customers.

Our advisor-facing products include a fully-fledged back-office that ensures customer interactions over email, chat, and telephone — as well as the processing and handling of mortgage applications and financial documents — are reliable, efficient, and secure.

You'll help ensure our calculation engines, back-office tools, and customer-facing platform become more resilient and secure as we grow.

Tasks

Individuals who like getting things done

Excellent communication skills, able to work closely with backend engineers and product teams

Eagerness to understand the systems end-to-end, from application code to the infrastructure it runs on

Someone who is as comfortable writing infrastructure-as-code as they are debugging a production incident

A pragmatic approach to reliability — building the right amount of resilience, focussing on the key building blocks and clean architecture

Our technology stack

Backend

• Ruby 4.0 (Rails 8.1)
• PostgreSQL 16
• Serverless Ruby, Node.JS, Python

Frontend

• Vue.js 3
• CSS3 (flex & friends)

Infrastructure

• AWS: ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront
• Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
• CI/CD pipelines

Testing & Reliability

• RSpec
• Monitoring & alerting tooling

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience with Ruby (min 4-5 years), ideally including Ruby on Rails 7/8
• RSpec experience
• Good grasp of OO patterns
• Sentry, GitHub and Datadog are your best friends
• Hands-on production experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
• Working knowledge of AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, VPC networking, IAM)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of observability: monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Experience with containerization (Docker, ECS or Kubernetes)
• Comfort with incident response: on-call rotations, postmortems, and root-cause analysis
• Good grasp of RDBMS operations (PostgreSQL 16+) — backups, performance tuning, failover
• A security-first mindset: familiarity with secrets management, least-privilege access, and cloud security best practices

Nice to have

• Experience with serverless Ruby, Node.JS architectures
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions
• Experience defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs/error budgets
• Scripting/automation experience beyond Ruby (Bash, Python)
• Prior experience in a regulated industry (fintech, proptech, or similar)

Benefits

What can Hypofriend offer you?

A young, motivated, and interdisciplinary team with years of experience building successful digital products

Work up to 100% from home, with occasional meetings and off-sites near our Berlin Headquarters

In addition to an attractive fixed salary, you get the exciting opportunity to improve the German mortgage industry and be at the forefront of new and innovative practices

Stock options in a growing company

An 1,500 annual euro Learning budget

As a young and rapidly growing company you have an excellent career perspective

Latest Macbook and equipment to work from home

Urban Sports Membership

A unique 3-story office at Rosenthaler Platz

Full support to become a homeowner