Devops Engineer - Berlin

Salary range 50-70.000 Eur/Year

TechStack

Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ruby, AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kafka, MySQL, Micro­Services, Redis, Ruby on Rails, Distributed Architectures, Memcached, GIT, Docker Swarm, High­load, Github, Distributed Databases, Distributed queues, Grape

Tech Details

• High-­load and complex environment
• Moving all services from bare-­metal to AWS currently
• Many SOA/microservices in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Grape
• Foundation and shared middleware
• High inter­-service communication with e.g. Kafka
• Lot's of 3rd party integrations
• Open to use other programming languages then Ruby for micro­services

About us

They build unique technology to connect buses with the travel industry worldwide.

The Company innovates the ground transportation and travel sector. They build unique technology to connect intercity and airport shuttle bus providers with the travel industry worldwide. They are the leading tech provider in their industry, working with global brands, covering 30+ countries and having an impact on millions of travelers. Take a look at their exciting opportunities and join their multinational and passionate team to accelerate our worldwide expansion now!

With more than 6.4 billion passengers a year, bus definitely is a big deal! They aim to leave their dent in the universe by building the world’s leading booking system for bus rides. That’s a challenging goal, they impact millions of travelers and serve a highly demanded technology to their great partners.

How we work

Work Style

• Agile: SCRUM or Kanban, depending on product teams
• The team called it pragmatic Agile!
• 2x Shared Product Owner amongst 3 products teams, created the 4th one now
• 1-2 week sprints
• Lot's of iteration and small releases

Culture

• People have a lot of freedom and ownership to drive projects ­- no micromanagement!
• Good vibes in the development teams
• Fantastic and experienced CEO with really good people skills

People

It’s not all about work. They work closely together, but enjoy themselves at regular team events, like their Friday’s after work beers or Lunch & Learn sessions. If you like professional and friendly atmosphere – you’ll love it there!

Summary

• Total: around 40 people
• Offices in Berlin and Bonn
• Berlin Development Team: around 15
  • 3 different Product teams with distributed ownership
  • Very senior and experienced people

Position

• Build the core backbone system for a whole industry
• Be part of a team that is building the first system of its kind for a whole industry
• Diverse, experienced team to exchange your ideas and contribution
• Opportunity to contribute to the overall engineering strategy
• Hackathons, conference visits
• English speaking, no German required
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MUST HAVE

Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform

Who you are

• You have Linux System Administration skills, experience with Ubuntu, RedHat
• You have experience with configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, etc)
• You are experienced in Kubernetes and Terraform
• You have good knowledge of deployment automation tools and data analysis/monitoring tools (Prometheus, ElasticSearch)
• You have experience in managing an application’s growth and overall scaling
• You are self­-organized and are able to prioritize your tasks independently
• You take responsibility for your tasks and applications

Cultural fit

• Willingness to take real ownership
• Lot's of ambition and self­driven
• Good communication
• Good analytical and problem­solving skills

NICE TO HAVE

Docker, AWS, Kafka, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Ansible, Puppet, Chef

• Having worked with Docker, AWS is a plus
• Having worked with Kafka is a plus

SENIOR FRONTEND DEVELOPER - Berlin

Salary 60.000 - 65.000 EUR

Technology details

TechStack

JavaScript, Java, MySQL, Redis, Angular4, GIT, ZeroMQ

Tech Details

Their technology generates quantitative measures on investment products that satisfy regulatory requirements on publication and transparency for buy and sell side investment firms.

Their core technology is a proprietary JAVA encoded valuation engine (financial library). It consists of the following models: Bond Curve Interpolation, First­To- Default Copula, Inflation Curve Interpolation, FX Forward Curve Interpolation, Hull­White, Implied Volatility Interpolation, No­Early­Redemption, Default Intensity and Local Volatility.

The valuation engine is connected to data feeds of multiple trading platforms and brokers.

Their algorithms compute proprietary data from more than 1 bn. observable prices each day. The prop. data includes interest rate curves, volatility surfaces on multiple issuers / underlyings, and mark to model prices for financial instruments.

They maintain a clean reference database on more than 1.3 m investment products. Their data is made available via APIs and web based tools.

Company info

About us

The Company is a Berlin­-based B2B company which assists financial players with pre and post-trade digitization. RegTech is a key growth area, with innovative technology and software applied to assist in intelligently managing the regulatory and compliance processes.

Our customers live in a world where information and capital travel fast. Risk management, compliance, and front office employees require market intelligence and information tools to be able to detect, track, and monitor market developments. The Company provides technological solutions that meet these requirements. Our technologies are at work during the complete life cycle of a trade. We support our clients with the initial pre­trade risk analysis, with ongoing monitoring and generation of trading signals, as well as with the calculation of relevant risk indicators such as mark­to­model values and value at risk.

Our architecture needs to be a highly available and provide consistent performance, with the challenge of customers generating diverse sets of workloads depending on their own data structure and usage patterns. Your starting project will be the development of an application that connects a front office trading tool to our internal risk engine. The technology will allow the user to set trading parameters via a GUI and to request for low latency trading signals.

After successfully completing this technology it will be integrated into one of the most important broker platforms in Europe. You will be working with low latency market data feeds and with our proprietary software that includes the mathematical algorithms for computing the trading information.

How we work

They are a team of proficient mathematicians, experienced software engineers and financial analysts who are just as diverse and multifaceted as their working field.

Combining finance­mathematical expertise, technological savviness and analytical thinking, they assist their clients across a wide range of challenges.

• 20 people in total
• 5 developers

Position

The Frontend team is currently small, consists of one Junior Developer. The company needs strong senior level knowledge to further develop the Frontend part of their services. They used Angular2 in the past and recently moved to Angular4. While they are not strictly bound to using Angular in the future it is preferred. They are open to suggestions to alternatives if it makes sense technically and provides a better solution.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work on the client facing interfaces of our services.
• Design and develop efficient UX solutions for their microservice­based B2B web applications;
• Deliver high quality, documented and maintainable code;
• Translate business requirements into new features or apply changes to existing ones;
• Share the knowledge and experience among the team with regards to best practices and modern approaches;
• Help them improve areas which could be improved via ideas, discussions and shared projects.

MUST HAVE

JavaScript, TypeScript

• 4+ years of proven experience in Javascript/Typescript application development;
• Experience with Angular 5+/ReactJS/VueJS, ECMAScript 6, Webpack, Jest;
• Experience with modern frontend development principles:
  • Design tools;
  • Project management;
  • Unit, E2E, Performance testing;
  • Builders;
  • REST API;
  • CI/CD;
• UX/UI/Product mindset;
• You think about the user to provide the optimal experience on different platforms;
• You can measure quality of your code and prove your software architecture decisions;
• You can comfortably collaborate with the backend and QA teams;
• Fluent verbal and written English language skills.

SENIOR PYTHON ENGINEER (IN MACHINE LEARNING) - Berlin

Sallary: 60.000 - 80.000 €

Technology details

TechStack

• In the Machine Learning team: Python, MySQL, Redis, GIT, AWS
• Also used in other teams at the company: NGINX, Docker, Apache Hadoop, Linux, High­load, PHP, Go

Company info

About us

We are a vibrant and progressive start­up in the middle of Europe ́s Silicon Valley, Berlin. Our international team of technology enthusiasts is dedicated to bring the right apps to the right people. We operate a portfolio of Software and App
portals across Europe and North America in ten languages and combine great editorial content with informative and well­founded app recommendations.

• We are one of the successful companies of the covus.com incubator. The entire company has around 60 people from which the engineering is a small but very experienced team of 22-­25 people. The engineering function is divided to the back­end team and the Machine Learning team.
• Many of their engineers who work here as seniors used to be CTOs and tech leads at their earlier companies so the engineering knowledge and culture is quite strong. Some of them are non­-native PHP coders in the back-end team and come from Python or C++ backgrounds with high-­load experience. We use PHP to solve interesting problems.
• Very very open people from all over the world! From HR to tech team extremely happy and positive and you can really feel how happy and excited they are. Very good harmony in the tech team!
• We pay very well way above standards and offer a lot of extras called the partnership package which people who stay longer than 1 year get. From kindergarden support, to very attractive bonus programs.
• They pay a lot of attention to that their people feel good about the work they do and enjoy it. They have table tennis in the office, regular sport activities, their own lounge in the Mercedes­Benz sport arena. The team also occasionally cooks lunch together in the office.
• Overtime is not expected from the engineering team so there is a healthy work­-life balance.

How we work

• Agile with mix of SCRUM and Kanban
• Unit Testing with around 80% coverage
• Some, but not strict TDD
• Pair programming Engineers can spend 20% of their time on their own experimental projects on Fridays! Called Dev Friday! - a la Google 

Position

What would you do with 3 million requests per hour? Make history within our industry. Come and join our professional team. Come and be part of our daily process of finding ever better solutions to manage high traffic while implementing cutting-edge technologies and ensuring real time analysis, that drives our business. We are open to your ideas and would love to see you grow with us. Here everything is about extreme high-load systems. We are routing countless terrabytes of traffic and handling 3 million requests every hour. We have been very successful with AdTech and focussing on that 100%. Imagine you are trying to empty the ocean into a small river by keeping the fisherman's feed dry. We started working with PHP in the past when they were still focussing a lot on developing portals. So there is a huge domain knowledge of PHP in the team, but we are moving more and more into micro-services running on Golang, node.js and are open to any other technology that is doing the job well. The refactoring is ongoing at the moment as a side-project and we are planning to move the entire system to Golang by 2018. Our infrastructure is completely on AWS, working extensively with Docker, Docker Swarm, Ansible and MongoDB clusters. We are looking for learning-hungry people, who want to grow together with the team and ready to obtain new knowledge every day. It should be understood that mistakes here are expensive and our team members feel strong ownership for the product. People who are ready to learn and ready to share at the same time will be a good fit for us.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• You are part of the Machine Learning Engineers and collaborate closely with all aspects of the company like Machine Learning, Big Data Engineering and Data Science
• Our ML Scientists build prototypes which have to be understood and then built for our live system / productised
• Implement your own visions and ideas – help shape the product
• Use the right tools for the job, collaborate with the team, challenge each other, question solutions and approaches
• Create high load / low latency features, components, services, products and documentation for those
• Incorporate new technologies and topics quickly but thoroughly

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY

• Competitive salary (above industry standards) and a relocation package when required
• Fast­learning environment – whether you are self­taught or have completed your PhD, it does not matter to us, as long as you are driven by curiosity and want to get things done
• Opportunity to work with the state of the art technologies and learning from talented peers by sharing your expertise through our DevFriday events
• Excellent career development opportunities – we want to strengthen your strengths and grow with us (and we mean it)
• Flat hierarchies, open communication and easy­going personal interaction
• Multitude of ways to relax during work, may it be playing ping pong or console gaming, we make sure you're not just stuck to your machines
• Friday breakfast, unlimited supply of fruits and beverages, whether it be coffees, mate or a drink of your choice 
• Young, dynamic and international team
• Nice designer office in Prenzlauer Berg

MUST HAVE

• At least 4+ years of professional programming
• Programming: Python3 (we always use the latest version)
• Version control with Git (gitflow, rebase)
• Testing (unit tests, functional tests)
• Databases: MySQL (Aurora), Redis
• Familiarity with cloud services (AWS)
• Constant passion for learning and improving oneself
• Critical & analytical thinking
• Passion & understanding regarding mathematics, statistics and logic

NICE TO HAVE

Docker, Machine Learning, Linux, Apache Hadoop, NGINX, High­load,

• Multilingualism is a big plus (spoken and programming languages)
• Development and deployment using Docker
• Strong Machine Learning background
• Linux knowledge (CLI)
• Data analytics (i.e. hadoop, elasticsearch)
• High performance web stack (nginx, asyncio)
• Background in AdTech or similar is a plus
• Already worked in a high load low latency environment

HIGH­-LOAD JAVA BACK-­END DEVELOPER - Berlin

Technology details

TechStack

Java, Vertx, Spring/SpringBoot, Maven, Kafka, Hadoop, Presto, Druid, Spark, MongoDB, Aerospike, Redis, Docker, AWS, GCE, Hybrid Cloud, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Cassandra, CI/CD.

Webapp

At the company everything is about extreme high­-load systems. They are routing countless terabytes of traffic and handling 3 million requests every hour. They have been very successful with AdTech and focused on that 100%. Imagine you are trying to empty the ocean into a small river by keeping the fisherman's feed dry.

At the moment they are launching a new project based on Java as well. In the future they are moving more and more into micro­services running on Golang, node.js and are open to any other technology that is doing the job well.

The infrastructure is completely on AWS, working extensively with Docker, Docker Swarm, Ansible and MongoDB clusters.

Company info

About us

The company is an app recommendation company dedicated to bringing the right apps to the right people. We are an international team of mobile experts, data scientists, and developers with access to powerful proprietary technology. With machine learning, targeting algorithms and tracking technology, we help advertisers to reach their most valuable users and execute targeted campaigns, scaling them to new heights. Founded in 2014, HQ in Berlin.

The company is a vibrant and progressive start­up in the middle of Europe ́s Silicon Valley, Berlin. Our international team of technology enthusiasts is dedicated to bring the right apps to the right people. We operate a portfolio of Software and App portals across Europe and North America in ten languages and combine great editorial content with informative and well­founded app recommendations.

How we work

Work Style

• Agile with a mix of SCRUM and Kanban
• Unit Testing with around 80% coverage
• some, but not strict TDD
• Pair programming

Engineers can spend 20% of their time on own experimental projects on Fridays! Called Dev Friday!

The company offers 2 different career paths within engineering: People management and Technical Expert. So it is possible to advance technically, get more serious projects (and increase salary) without being involved in people management ­ if you want to go deeper in engineering and become a tech expert it is absolutely doable. At the same if you are interested in growing into a Team Lead and people manager role there will be opportunities for that as well.

Culture

Very very open people from all over the world! From HR to tech team extremely happy and positive and you can really feel how happy and excited they are. Very good harmony in the tech team!

They pay very well way above standards and offer a lot of extras called the partnership package which people who stay longer than 1 year get. From kindergarten support to very attractive bonus programs.

They pay a lot of attention to that their people feel good about the work they do and enjoy it. They have table tennis in the office, regular sport activities, their own lounge in the Mercedes­Benz sport arena. The team also occasionally cooks lunch together in the office.

Overtime is not expected from the engineering team so there is a healthy work-life balance.

People

The entire company has around 55 people (as of January 2018) from which the engineering is a small but very experienced team of 22­-25 people. The engineering function is divided into the back­end team and the Machine Learning team.

Many of their engineers who work here as seniors used to be CTOs and tech leads at their earlier companies so the engineering knowledge and culture is quite strong. Some of them are non­-native PHP coders and come from Python or C++ backgrounds with high­load experience. They use PHP, Go and Java at the company to solve interesting problems.

Position

We are looking for driven software engineers to help us designing, building, operating and scaling our ad serving systems and internal and external management tools. You will be part of an international team working in a dynamic and agile environment. Our services process tens of TBs of data and billions of events per day in real- time. You will work closely with other software and data engineers to build the next generation ad tech services. If you have a deep understanding of building highly scalable software in Java (or other languages), and like seeing your highly loaded services in production, you will fit right in.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, test, scale and operate our highly available services handling billions of events per day
• Improve current services architecture and quality
• Work in an agile environment and contribute your ideas to continuously improve our products, processes, and tools
• Have a passion for learning and improving yourself
• Team up with talented developers, learn as much as you can and have fun while doing it

The project is a new initiative within the company. The company just started building the new team now which has a Team Lead, a Front­end developer, and one Java developer. You can join now in the very beginning and be part of building a new service from scratch. The team is expected to grow further in the future.

Ideally you should be aware of and experienced in several tools and technologies in the following tech stack: Java, Vertx, Spring/SpringBoot, Maven, Kafka, Hadoop, Presto, Druid, Spark, MongoDB, Aerospike, Redis, Docker, AWS, GCE, Hybrid Cloud, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Cassandra, CI/CD.

Apart from these experience in high­load back­end development (ideally even some AdTech) will be a great addition to this team.

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY

• Competitive salary (above industry standards) and a relocation package when required
• Full Visa Support for you and your family
• Sponsored company apartment 1­-2 month
• Fast­ learning environment – whether you are self­-taught or have completed your Ph.D., it does not matter to us, as long as you are driven by curiosity and want to get things done
• Opportunity to work with the state of the art technologies and learning from talented peers by sharing your expertise through our DevFriday events
• Excellent career development opportunities – we want to strengthen your strengths and grow with us (and we mean it)
• Flat hierarchies, open communication, and easy­-going personal interaction
• A multitude of ways to relax during work, may it be playing ping pong or console gaming, we make sure you’re not just stuck to your machines Daily catered lunches – forgot to cook or have no cash for a lunch outside? No problem, we got you!
• Daily breakfast, an almost unlimited supply of fruits and beverages, whether it be coffees, mate or a drink of your choice 
• Friendly, dynamic and international working environment, where you matter
• Nice designer office
• Detached tech lab for MVP experiments ­ like a playground for grown­ups!

MUST HAVE

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Apache Hadoop
• Apache Spark
• MongoDB
• Redis
• Docker

NICE TO HAVE

Cultural fit

We are looking for learning­-hungry people, who want to grow together with the team and ready to obtain new knowledge every day. It should be understood that mistakes here are expensive and the job should be taken seriously. People who are ready to learn and ready to share at the same time will be a good fit for the company.