Senior Web Developer (m/f)

Who We Are

We are a fast growing multinational LegalTech startup with a team of 60+ people based in Cologne (Germany) and Maastricht (Netherlands). Our mission is to make legal accessible to everyone: quick, easy and comfortable.

Combining great legal minds with cutting edge technology is key for us by doing so - this way we want to give people all over the world access to their legal rights. Obviously we cannot change the law - but we can change the way it feels.

With a working prototype and 100,000+ users already, we now start with taking our service international and with your help, we want to set up our new technological foundation using a greenfield approach.

What You Do

• Work within an agile team employing Scrum.
• Build up the whole IT landscape from scratch.
• Design the development and deployment process and live it.
• Haggle with your technical PO about solution approaches and estimates.
• Help to write stories and implement them.
• Code great features, make sure they are tested and meet the quality guidelines.
• Manage the code base as well as the underlying infrastructure in a DevOps approach - You build it, you run it!

What We Offer

• We are easygoing, humble people and we love to create a work environment where everybody feels comfortable.
• You will be faced with technical challenges on a daily basis. We want to build innovative products and we want you to build them with us.
• You have your say. We need your experience and we are willing to listen.
• Say goodbye to agency hours! We also like to spend time with our families and friends.
• Competitive compensation for good performance.

Who You Are

• A few years of experience in developing scalable web applications.
• Developed front- and backend and maintained the applications afterwards.
• Profound experience in at least two of the following languages: PHP, Python, Ruby,  Java, C# and the corresponding frameworks.
• Very good understanding of relational databases like MySQL or Postgres, experience with key-value-stores like Redis would be nice.
• Knowledge on the ins and outs of git, unit and integration testing, Jenkins and deployment managers (e.g. Capistrano).
• Comfortable in dealing with technologies like ElasticSearch, Varnish, Docker, Puppet, ELK.
• LAMP is something you don’t expect light coming out of it but you can set it up in no time.
• You know that scaling doesn’t only depend on the system but mostly on the programming style.
• You are familiar with IP addresses, network masks, DNS and also firewalls.
• Experience with CMS and Machine Learning would be a plus.
• You are a go to person, who is motivated to deliver great functionality to users and you know what “pragmatic” means.