Backend Developer (m/f) – location Berlin

Billie

Engineering | Berlin, Germany

Company Description

We are Billie - a breakthrough Fintech startup in Berlin that aims to revolutionize small
business financing. We are a team of high caliber startup veterans that have successfully
founded, grown, and sold their first company (founded Zencap, sold to Funding Circle)
and are now scaling their next venture. We have a world class team on the ground and
some of the strongest investors in Europe backing our company.

Based on big data analytics, fully digitalized processes and a highly scalable state of the
art tech platform, we offer the simplest and fastest way for small businesses to access
capital. Our innovative solution provides financing against the open invoices of a small
businesses – no hidden fees, no paperwork, no boring bank branches. Financing as it
should be. Thereby, we make a lasting impact on small businesses that provide jobs and
income for millions.

Join us to create the future of small business finance.

Job Description

Department: Engineering

- Reporting Line: CTO
- Fulltime
- Languages: English mandatory, German is a plus
- Location: Berlin

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Develop new features for a perspective fin-tech startup which doesn’t have any piece of
legacy code
- Design and refactor code, architecture and data model together with other members or
Engineering and Data teams
- Close collaboration with Product and QA in order to understand and match use cases
and acceptance criteria
- Close collaboration with Payments, BI, Risk, Marketing and Sales teams in order to
develop the best fin-tech product
- Constantly improve the quality of processes

Qualifications

- Understand core design patterns and and be able to use it properly
- Write clear and testable code
- Ability and interest to learn new technologies and languages
- Symfony3 or any other modern MVC Framework
- TDD, BDD or simply passion to cover code by tests
- RESTful API on a client and server side
- Understanding and ability to get rid of bottlenecks in performance and security of
database and application
- Work in a close collaboration with stakeholders, team members and other colleagues.
We’re not interested in coding machines, we’re interested in entrepreneurs

WHAT ELSE IS A BENEFIT

- Google Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka or any other similar technologie
- Go or Erlang

Additional Information


WHAT WE OFFER

- An opportunity to be a part of one of the fastest-growing fintech startups in Europe
- A great mission - we empower small businesses, the engine of economic growth
- Agile and test-driven team with a passion for quality, tests and open source
- Personal development plan which really works
- Future career path to tech- or people- management
- Fully automated development and deployment from local machine to production
instances
- PHP7, Symfony3, R, Go, Erlang, Percona, Ansible, Google Cloud, Microservices, 100%
test coverage, CI
- A great office near Checkpoint Charlie with free gym, healthy snacks and cereals, fruits,
coffee and drinks