Staff Engineer (all genders) | Berlin, hybrid or remote

at  Aroundhome

SKILLS

• You are a very experienced staff-level engineer, who has deep knowledge of Ruby, and an interest in Golang but also doesn’t shy away from working on the full stack in collaboration with our frontend engineers
• You focus on sustainable solutions that remain easy to understand as well as scalable in the long term and strive for continuous improvement
• You are enthusiastic and think both responsibly and pragmatically and distinguish with your positive and solution-oriented attitude when taking on challenges
• You strive to improve, whether this is about the code, the team, or yourself, and therefore communicate as well as collaborate proactively
• You are an absolute team player, like to share your knowledge and experience with others, and appreciate an open feedback culture. Bonus if you are passionate about sharing through our bi-weekly tech talks! ;)

ABOUT US

Aroundhome is a recommendation platform for houseowners.
With a comprehensive range of information and services relating to their own home and a team of 300 employees, Aroundhome supports houseowners who live in their own property in carrying out major investment projects relating to their own home - from selling and investing to maintaining and repairing their property.
Our mission: Your property is more than just a house. It is a home and a life project. Every change brings insecurities. Because every decision can be a wrong one - and expensive. We make it possible to make better decisions with good recommendations and to realize all large projects around the own home more stress-free. With orientation, individual advice and the mediation of suitable partners for all-round successful projects.
Aroundhome - Because it’s their home.
Together with you, we want Aroundhome to develop into the one recommendation platform for houseowners and are looking forward to welcoming you to our team.

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join one of our cross-functional engineering teams focused on expanding our core business into a platform that enables customers to complete their home renovation projects successfully and return to use our services again. Our next challenge is to build a customer account area and a new Customer Data Platform layer for more relevant e-mail marketing.

We are a freshly reoriented team of talented people focused on this domain. We have a mostly clean slate to build things right, similar to a start-up within a company environment. Our values and vision are to leverage maintainable and scalable software together with a safe team environment to get things done while measuring our customers success every step of the way.

• As Staff Engineer you are a driver for technical discussions and decision-making within your team and the teams around you by focusing on customer impact and technical quality
• You contribute strategically to the development of technical solutions that address complex business challenges, identifying areas of uncertainty while driving projects forward with simple and maintainable code
• You regularly exchange with other Staff Engineers on the overarching architecture of our tech stack
• You are a competent contact person for our product managers, give feedback as well as technical input on the user stories therefore help us to create an outstanding product
• You see yourself as a mentor who uncovers the strengths of the engineering members and you will empower them through regular feedback as well as mutual learning such as pair programming
• You take ownership of the entire development cycle from proof of concept to go-live and always support your team to break projects down into manageable steps as well as being a resource for expert-level tech knowledge
• You are up to date with current tech trends, take initiative to implement useful new technologies, and constantly improve quality by following established engineering best practices and ensure high observability of services