About simplesurance GmbH
At simplesurance, we are transforming the insurance industry by providing innovative digital solutions. As a team lead, you will lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collective ownership. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining high-performance APIs for our core insurance services, ensuring end-to-end delivery of microservices.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collective ownership.
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance APIs (gRPC and REST) for our core insurance services.
- Own the end-to-end delivery of microservices: from requirements gathering, architecture, and implementation, through deployment and operational support.
- Collaborate with Product, DevOps, and cross-functional teams to translate feature requests into robust, scalable technical solutions.
- Establish and champion engineering best practices, including code reviews, automated testing, observability (tracing, logging, metrics), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide performance feedback, and support engineers' career growth.
- Identify, prioritize, and reduce technical debt; continuously improve architecture, code quality, and team workflows.
- Ensure compliance with security policies, coding standards, and regulatory requirements relevant to the insurance sector.
- Monitor and optimize service reliability, performance, and cost in production environments.
Requirements
- Strong backend development background with proven proficiency in Go for production environments.
- Previous experience leading engineering teams or mentoring engineers in a senior capacity.
- Proven track record designing and evolving gRPC and REST-based APIs at scale.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native patterns.
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern DevOps workflows.
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for building clean, efficient, and maintainable systems.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Benefits
- A hybrid environment that fosters flexibility
- Working-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 our investment policy
- Sabbatical leave of up to 2 months after your first year
- Learning & development opportunities via our Degreed platform
- Employee Referral Programme
- Regular company events and an open, growth-oriented culture
- Choice between a free Deutschland ticket or Internet subsidy (Germany)
- An exceptional company-supported pension plan (Germany)
- JobRad leasing (bike leasing with insurance & checkups sponsored) (Germany)
- Support with health insurance (Portugal)