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 architectureOur technology stack⚙️ BackendRuby 4.0 (Rails 8.1)PostgreSQL 16Serverless Ruby, Node.JS, Python🖌️ FrontendVue.js 3CSS3 (flex & friends)👷🏽 InfrastructureAWS: ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFrontTerraform for infrastructure-as-codeCI/CD pipelines🔍 Testing & ReliabilityRSpecMonitoring & alerting toolingRequirementsStrong commercial experience with Ruby (min 4-5 years), ideally including Ruby on Rails 7/8RSpec experienceGood grasp of OO patternsSentry, GitHub and Datadog are your best friendsHands-on production experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-codeWorking knowledge of AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, VPC networking, IAM)Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelinesSolid understanding of observability: monitoring, logging, and alertingExperience with containerization (Docker, ECS or Kubernetes)Comfort with incident response: on-call rotations, postmortems, and root-cause analysisGood grasp of RDBMS operations (PostgreSQL 16+) — backups, performance tuning, failoverA security-first mindset: familiarity with secrets management, least-privilege access, and cloud security best practicesNice to haveExperience with serverless Ruby, Node.JS architecturesFamiliarity with GitHub ActionsExperience defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs/error budgetsScripting/automation experience beyond Ruby (Bash, Python)Prior experience in a regulated industry (fintech, proptech, or similar)BenefitsWhat 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

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