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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