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

Meyandy LLC; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Stock options

Learning budget

Zusammenfassung

Hypofriend GmbH in Berlin is looking for a Senior Ruby Backend Engineer with an affinity for observability. You will support customer-facing and advisor-facing products built with Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and AWS, ensuring reliable calculation engines and secure back-office tools.

You'll collaborate with backend engineers and product teams, implement infrastructure-as-code, and improve monitoring, logging, and incident response while maintaining clean architecture and strong security practices.

Qualifikationen

• Strong commercial experience with Ruby (min 4-5 years), ideally including Ruby on Rails 7/8.
• Good grasp of OO patterns; Sentry, GitHub and Datadog are your friends.
• Hands-on production experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code.
• Working knowledge of AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, VPC, 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, root-cause analysis.
• Good grasp of RDBMS operations (PostgreSQL 16+): backups, performance tuning, failover.
• A security-first mindset: secrets management, least-privilege, cloud security best practices.
• Nice to have: serverless Ruby/Node architectures; GitHub Actions; SLIs/SLOs; Bash/Python; fintech/regulatory experience.

Aufgaben

• 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
• 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

Kenntnisse

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

RSpec

Sentry

Datadog

CI/CD

Observability

GitHub

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Ruby Backend Engineer with affinity for observability (d/w/m) — Hypofriend GmbH, Berlin.

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

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

• 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