Company Overview
Simplesurance GmbH is a leading insurance technology company that provides innovative and seamless insurance solutions. The company is focused on developing high-throughput, low-latency identity services to support its growing business.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate identity services such as Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), session management, and federation
- Implement and scale modern authentication and authorization protocols and token formats (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs)
- Write clean, concurrent, and highly performant backend services primarily in Go
- Use DevOps experience to deploy, manage, and automate identity infrastructure
- Serve as the subject matter expert on authentication and identity
- Integrate and maintain solutions with custom and standard identity providers
- Mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and contribute to the team's technical roadmap and security posture
Requirements
- Proven experience building complex, distributed backend systems with strong production experience in Go and gRPC
- Deep conceptual and practical knowledge of modern authentication and authorization flows, token security, session management, and cryptographic fundamentals
- Solid understanding of web security, federated identity, and secure coding practices
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience designing systems for high throughput and low latency without sacrificing security or correctness
- Strong communication skills to explain complex security and architectural trade-offs
- Experience with SAML, SCIM, PKI, JWKs/JWKS endpoints, key management, and token introspection
- Working knowledge of identity platforms, rate limiting, abuse mitigation, and adaptive authentication
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with flexibility
- Work-from-abroad policy of up to 25 days per year
- 28 vacation days, plus full paid time off on Christmas & New Years Eve
- Allianz shares guided by the company's investment policy
- Sabbatical leave of up to 2 months after the first year
- Learning & development opportunities via the Degreed platform
- Employee Referral Programme
- Regular company events and an open, growth-oriented culture
- Choice between a free Deutschland ticket or Internet subsidy (Germany)
- Exceptional company-supported pension plan (Germany)
- Support with health insurance (Portugal)