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VP Of Engineering in Barcelona

Wefox

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Job Description

About us

The highly successful InsurTech wefox was founded in Switzerland in November 2014. It successfully operates across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. wefox is customer centric and utilises an ecosystem of key brokers and insurance companies to meet customer needs of trust and simplification. By combining the most advanced technology with traditional insurance consulting know-how, wefox has already managed to acquire more than 250,000 customers. We are now in phase two of our growth and need to continue to increase scale and improve scalability as we enter additional markets.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a person ready to be in charge of a part of the tech team. The team will be multidisciplinary and include client-side and back-office side. We need a strong person that understand the product, coordinate the teams and make sure that the release trains don’t stop and it’s as much agile as possible.

Your daily work will be making focus on coordination with product and business to understand new requirements and make sure that everything is clear. Design and coordinate the implementation best technical solution. Make sure that the tech stack it’s up-to-date and has the minimum legacy.

The company is in a hyper-growth stage and we need people that help us to reach the next level.

Qualifications & Skills
  • 4+ years of management experience
  • Strong background in technology leadership (running teams, groups, continuous integration, inter-dept communication)
  • Good communications skills and understanding of Product Management
  • Good understanding of the business and solution oriented person.
  • Familiarity with Agile, Scrum and related team management paradigms
  • Strong software development background with existing coding skills in one or more common web languages (Javascript, iOS/ Android, Salesforce, Java)
  • Strong Architectural experience of microservices
  • Strong Systems management background with an understanding of the maintenance of Quality of Service, Security, and other defensive measures.
  • Background in hiring technical team members.
  • Familiarity with source control systems (GitHub)
  • Strong communication skills and a sense of accountability
  • Willingness to learn and to teach
  • Curiosity for tech, programming languages and frameworks
Would be a plus:

  • Technical Ability Java, Salesforce, Angular, Swift, Kotlin
  • Relational and Non-relational database experience (specifically Postgres, REDIS, MongoDB)
  • Worked in a hosted cloud environment such as AWS
  • Experience using and integrating with third-party APIs
  • Contributions to the open-source community
  • Moderate tennis table and football table skills :)
What we offer

We are a diverse team and we are happy to see all applicants regardless of their origin, sexual orientation, confession, age or physical limitation.

-A multi-disciplinary role with opportunity to manage your own path to success
-The responsibility of part of the tech team.
-Full responsibility for your role – from day one
-Outstanding chances to develop your own ideas – and make them work
-An excellent onboarding-program – to ease your start at wefox
-We support your professional development initiatives
-Several company benefits – grants for public transport tickets, training and coaching
-A stack of the most modern technologies and working gadgets
-Perks like fruit, coffee and gym discounts
-An open-minded and passionate team spirit devoted to innovation
-You will work closely with Sergi and Marcel
-We are an open company - check out our Glassdoor ratings


Your contact person for this opening is Ms. Carlota Alcázar






 

About Wefox

  • Insurtech

  • Berlin, Germany

  • 500 - 1,000

  • 2015

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