Backend Engineer (Multiple teams - Hungary)
Marshmallow, Hungary
Job Description
Definitely not a sweet shop.
We're the tech company making insurance more accessible and more affordable for as many people as possible.
We’re proud of our journey so far. We’ve helped hundreds of thousands of customers get fairer cover, all while polishing a 4.6 star Trustpilot score. But we’re just getting started.
Over the next 2 years, we’re planning to help even more people by launching products and services across different sectors and countries
If you're looking for a challenge, our next chapter is set to be an exciting one
How we work
We've created a culture of trust which allows us to work autonomously without fear of failure, to challenge decisions, and be heard. It empowers us to drive our own careers and to move at unparalleled speed. And because we're treading new ground, we're all mastering new skills along the way.
Explore our culture handbook to find out more about life at Marshmallow, or read our blog!
Engineering at Marshmallow
Our engineers are at the heart of the solutions. They work on product builds from start to finish, solving lots of challenges to help us build fast and scale up! Our engineers cover a range of skills across frontend, backend, fullstack, iOS and android, and work alongside designers, data scientists, researchers and product managers within our product teams.
Our product teams include: the new Home team, the Growth team, the Efficiency team, and the Claims team (to name a few!) Each team sets its own roadmap, and actively pushes our codebase forward.
Learn more about our teams and how our engineers work here!
What you'll be doing
- Working in a product team enabling efficient automation for tens of thousands of policies, ensuring that we provide customers with affordable, instant, and inclusive insurance
- Participate in technical scoping, estimation and briefs. We don’t believe in heavyweight processes, and instead aspire to follow Agile principles. Whilst we borrow heavily from practices like Scrum and Kanban, we also borrow rituals from other high performing delivery teams, so we’re looking for engineers who are adaptable and open-minded
- Work closely with the team’s product owner to understand requirements, build solutions, deliver functionality, write automation tests and build continuous delivery pipelines all the way through to deployment, monitoring and supporting these systems in production
- Help us evolve our architecture to optimise for product delivery speed
- Participate in setting the quarterly team OKRs
Requirements
Who you are- You are a self-starter who likes to take ownership
- You enjoy working as part of a team and owning the work you do
- You enjoy creating and managing processes
- You are curious and have a can-do attitude
- You are patient and stay calm under pressure
- You are organised and can be relied upon to get things done
- You enjoy working in a high growth/scaling environment
- You enjoy problem-solving and creating innovative solutions
- You have a continuous delivery mindset
What we’re looking for from you
- Experience working in cross-functional teams in a metric-driven framework, ideally OKRs
- 3+ years experience with Java 8+ amp; Spring
- Commercial experience with Microservices
- Commercial awareness of AWS
- Familiar with ReactJS or other modern web frameworks
- Commercial experience with Terraform
- Worked in a high growth start-up environment
Our Tech Stack
- Java 15 Services
- Spring Boot with Spring Cloud
- Dynamo DB
- Terraform
- Docker
- AWS Fargate
- Event Sourcing
- Neptune DB
Benefits
Perks of the job- Competitive salary
- Flexible remote working
- Stock options
- Holiday allowance
- SZÉP card
- Learning and training
- Budget to help you set up working from home
Our process
We break it up into 5 stages:
- Initial call with Alistair Britten our Tech Talent Acquisition Specialist (45 mins)
- A skill-based interview where you will discuss your previous experience with one of our Engineering Managers (1 hour)
- Tech assessment or a 30 minute paired programming challenge (depending on level)
- A technical interview with one of our Tech Leads + one other Engineer (1 hour)
- A culture interview with an Engineering Manager to check that your work style fits our processes and values (1 hour)
- We’ll let you know if you’re invited to an interview or not. But, as a small team with a lot of applications to consider, we can’t give individual feedback on each application
Everyone belongs at Marshmallow