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

Hypofriend GmbH · Berlin

On-siteSeniorPosted 14 Aug 2026

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Job description

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.

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💪🏽 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

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