cstrasen

Friendsurance | Sr. Back-End Engineer (Java) | Full-Time | Hybrid | Berlin, Germany | Relocation

"Dealing with insurance should bring a smile to your face" - We’ve been chasing that bold mission for 14 years — still founder-led, still independent, and one of the very first Berlin fintech startups that is still around and thus deeply connected.

We operate in the bancassurance domain and serve German Banks and Insurances, exploring international expansion. Our flagship product is a B2B2C Multi-Tenant Whitelabel SaaS platform.

Our team is small, our culture is high-supportive/low-directive, and our stack is pragmatic Java. We experiment with AI prototypes, but we value engineers who care more about clean code and thoughtful tradeoffs than the latest hype.

We’re hiring for Germany (hybrid, relocation supported) — if you’re curious, say hi!

https://friendsurance.jobs.personio.com/job/2250416?_pc=2862...

FinCompare | Berlin | REMOTE | visa | relocation | No Recruiters

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Django, go, react, typescript) https://jobs.lever.co/fincompare/655c5085-e92a-4a9c-89de-4e7...

Senior Backend Engineer (Django, go) https://jobs.lever.co/fincompare/cbf7eb4c-8644-4cb5-8116-b5d...

Our software platform dramatically improves the experience for small and medium enterprises to get financing. With our proven marketplace we give more choice for better and faster access to various financing products with a focus on an end-to-end digital value-chain. While this seems like your classical B2B-FinTech startup-story, we believe that with our 4 years of existence we have a considerable head-start and are set for up for growth due to our independence and efficient product-matching capabilities. Yes our platform is focused on the German market but the team is very international and we currently pursue strong international partnerships.

Our tech-stack is neither fancy nor conservative with React, Typescript SPA powered by a Django monolith API slowly breaking up into go services, all using Docker. Our cross-functional tech-team (engineers, product- and UX experts, QA, data) is 20 heads strong.

We aspire to high standards and constant learning in everything we do and therefore look to hire experienced professionals that can further boost our engineering culture and who share our values of simplicity and understanding.

Other features:

  100% Remote if you want (+-4hrs of CET)
  An attractive remuneration package.
  Flexible working hours
  Active support in your personal development via individual training and coaching, frequent in-depth feedback and other activities in a comprehensive scheme
  Experienced managers and team-members who encourage and support your freedom to explore the problem space
  Flat hierarchies, open communication and company transparency, high standards
  A largely untapped B2B sector with strong growth expectations
  A nice office with a great atmosphere in the heart of Berlin
  A diverse and multinational team
  Any hardware or software that you need
  Hackathons

If you don't want to apply right way, ask your questions here or hit me up on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophstrasen/ (no recruiters/principals)

FinCompare | Berlin | REMOTE | visa | relocation | No Recruiters

Site Reliability Engineer (AWS, Docker, Django, go) https://jobs.lever.co/fincompare/b1e45dae-8977-4d29-8039-fde...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Django, go, react, typescript) https://jobs.lever.co/fincompare/655c5085-e92a-4a9c-89de-4e7...

Senior Backend Engineer (Django, go) https://jobs.lever.co/fincompare/cbf7eb4c-8644-4cb5-8116-b5d...

Our Software Platform dramatically improves the experience for small and medium enterprises to get financing. With our proven end-to-end marketplace we want to give more choice for better and faster access to various financing products. While this seems like your classical B2B-FinTech startup-story, we believe that with our 4 years of existence we have a considerable head-start and are set for up for growth due to our independence and efficient product-matching capabilities.

Our tech-stack is neither fancy nor conservative with React, Typescript SPA powered by a Django Monolith API slowly breaking up into go services, all using Docker incl. during development. In our tech-team of 12 Developers we aspire to high standards and constant learning in everything we do and therefore look to hire experienced professionals that can further boost our engineering culture and who share our values of simplicity and understanding.

Other features:

  100% Remote if you want (+-4hrs of CET)
  An attractive remuneration package.
  Flexible working hours
  Active support in your personal development via individual training and coaching, frequent in-depth feedback and other activities in a comprehensive scheme
  Experienced managers and team-members who encourage and support your freedom to explore the problem space
  Flat hierarchies, open communication and company transparency, high standards
  A largely untapped B2B sector with strong growth expectations
  A nice office with a great atmosphere in the heart of Berlin
  A diverse and multinational team
  Any hardware or software that you need
  Hackathons

If you don't want to apply right way, ask your questions here or hit me up on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophstrasen/ (no recruiters/principals)

FinCompare | Berlin | REMOTE | visa | relocation | No Recruiters

Site Reliability Engineer (AWS, Docker, Django, go) https://jobs.lever.co/fincompare/b1e45dae-8977-4d29-8039-fde...

Senior Backend Engineer (Django, go) https://jobs.lever.co/fincompare/cbf7eb4c-8644-4cb5-8116-b5d...

Our Software Platform dramatically improves the experience for small and medium enterprises to get financing. With our proven end-to-end marketplace we want to give more choice for better and faster access to various liquidity products. While this seems like your classical B2B-FinTech startup-story, we believe that with our 4 years of existance we have a considerable head-start and are set for up for growth due to our independence and capability to launch new products and partners fast for diverse groups of SME's seeking financing.

Our tech-stack (React, Typescript SPA and Django Monolith BE slowly breaking up into go services, Docker) is neither fancy nor conservative. In our Tech-Team of 9 Developers we aspire to high standards in everything we do and therefore look to hire experienced professionals that can further boost our engineering culture.

Other features:

  100% Remote
  Flexible working hours
  Active support in your personal development via individual external and internal training, frequent in-depth feedback and other measures in a comprehensive organised scheme
  Experienced managers and team-members that encourage ownership and high standards
  Flat hierarchies, open communication and company transparency, high energy and high reward
  Gain experience in a largely untapped sector with strong growth expectations that is B2B online finance
  A nice office with a great atmosphere in the heart of Berlin
  A diverse and multinational team that melts the best this world has to offer
  Any hardware or software that you need

If you don't want to apply right way, ask your questions here or hit me up on LinkedIn: christophstrasen

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | full stack developer | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Full Stack Developer (go, react, typescript) -> https://grnh.se/cbb28b481
  

Other features:

  mature & cross-functional team
  dedicated time for leading independent initiatives
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  open source projects
  company sports events (beach-volleyball, gym-, marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with practical commute and cheap, good food options around

I haven't been following gnunet.org for quite a while but I remember from years ago that it offers plausible deniability for nodes, aside from solid sounding review of their crypto.

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | full stack developer | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> https://grnh.se/cbb28b481
  

Other features:

  mature & cross-functional team
  dedicated time for leading independent initiatives
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  open source projects
  company sports events (beach-volleyball, gym-, marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with practical commute and cheap, good food options around

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | senior full stack developer | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Senior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> https://grnh.se/3e42c14e1
  

features:

  mature & cross-functional team
  20% time for own projects
  dedicated to growth and self-development
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  open source projects
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym-, water polo and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with practical commute and cheap, good food options around

Targetprocess

I am on-and-off conversing with the team at meetter ever since we started using it for some of our meetings. They are very responsive and helpful.

The concept is solid but it takes a cultural shift which can be hard. I am all for less but better meetings and condensing the schedules.

If someone would ask me to describe what meetter is I would say "An automated team assistant that tries to make sure that all topics of your org can get focused meeting time in one or multiple big blocks"

"Good" orgs will push for a commitment that everyone is available at the _same_ time slots, say 2 hours every Mon, Wed, Fri. Meetter (and well created topics) will do the rest and nobody needs to juggle.

Prerequisite is having enough meeting spaces or being more remote as the number of _parallel_ sessions (formerly called breakouts) is dynamic.

Edit: also the slack integration is great, makes creating topics a breeze and helps transparency.

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | senior full stack developer | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Senior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> https://grnh.se/3e42c14e1
  

features:

  mature & cross-functional team
  20% time for own projects
  dedicated to growth and self-development
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  open source projects
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym-, water polo and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with practical commute and cheap, good food options around

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | senior full stack developer | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Senior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> https://grnh.se/3e42c14e1
  

features:

  mature & cross-functional team
  20% time for own projects
  dedicated to growth and selfdevelopment
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym- and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with practical commute and cheap, good food options around

I have been in the same situation and I observed it happens more often when discussing with non-technical team members. What I think is happening here is that I forget how "business people" can have different knowledge and beliefs than I do. Assuming good intentions, it might be just lack of information on both sides that make us hold back and assume "they are probably on the right track". And IMHO that is good news because there are many possible paths to address this common issue.

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | senior full stack developer | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Senior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> https://grnh.se/3e42c14e1
  

  mature & cross-functional team
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  20% time for own projects
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym- and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with practical commute and cheap, good food options around

I don't know the particular situation in Croatia when it comes to how it cross-finances private healthcare but I would assume that this patient was billed for everything they recieved accordingly and not directly subsidized.

Of course there are indirect/externalized cost like the the health worker education system, potentially having hospitals and their equippment set up not to maximize profit but for coverage in the population etc. which this patient now may be freeloading on.

There is another perspective though if you consider free movement of labor in the EU (and to some extent globally for highly educated individuals) and the comparatively low salaries for medical professionals in Croatia and other cost-saving medical travel destinations (Hungary, Poland, Thailand, Mexico and others). If the doctors in the country can make an attractive buck on the side doing private practice then this alleviates the pressure to some extent. Especially if it allows the more senior doctors to stay in country and thus continue to train the next generation in med schools and the facilities.

Now I don't have a source to back it up but my feeling tells me that it is a net-positive activity for the destination countries. Depending on the scale of business, the foreign money might buy a new machine that other patients can use as well or quality improvements via the international certifications and accreditations.

That is not guarantee against potentially canibalising the local social system and could in worst cases lead to a two-class system so i suppose an adequate system to regulate access and subsidize for social fairness is in place where private and public seem equally "healthy".

Full disclosure: I work in tech at https://www.medigo.com We help facilitate global medical travel and publish prices to bring the best of capitalism to work in an ethical manner. We also have our own critical illness insurance for global treatment available for employers.

Performance and, to a much lesser extent, accountability are not the easiest topics in software engineering outside of strict waterfall. Still, awareness of these is critical for teams.

In that particular example that you are replying to I would go a few "why" steps deeper though. Why are they not motivated enough by their work maybe? Are they not aware maybe how a higher than "normal" engaging in distracting activities will hinder their development and ultimately their career?

Slacking off once in a while is perfectly normal. It is rare to find the perfect situation of engineer's brains being constantly on fire, churning out great solutions because they are so motivated, in the right place at the right time being asked to and capable to do the right thing in the right way. No manager can make their team get closer to that nirvana alone - It needs a good environment but most of all an intact network of trust inside the team and the openness to speak about lack of motivation or other issues and trying to tackle it together.

Imho it is your task to help them become aware (calling out and other methods), reflect on the issues and gain the confidence that a change can be made that benefits them.

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | senior full stack | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Senior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> https://grnh.se/3e42c14e1
  

features:

  mature & cross-functional team
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  20% time for own projects
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym- and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with practical commute and cheap, good food options around

Maybe I read a different text than you but I have yet to encounter a scenario in which a user would consent to processing that the law still would not allow. Assuming the consent was gathered according to the basic principles of GDPR, fair, transparent, specific etc.

Maybe I am missing something. Would you provide examples? I would be very glad to learn if there are edge cases I may be overlooking.

Please share your criticism. I would be happy to get as much perspective on the topic as possible.

The problem I encountered was having, or the notion of wanting, a product roadmap which is produced from stakeholder, C-level, product- and IT team input parallel to OKRs. I feel this is an anti pattern. You have OKRs and they make your quarterly roadmap or you don't apply OKRs at all to the producing team.

We are having a 20% time at my company (Medigo) since almost 5 years. Though the effects are hard to prove I see these:

  - obviously great for hiring
  - as we are not in a position to offer super advanced technical projects to tinker around with, it may have helped retention in a few cases, maybe general
  - one side project made it into a successful in-house product
  - it is sometimes a useful gap-filler if a project/backlog is not ready enough to start or too crowded on the dev side (a rare problem, ha!)

Slightly OT but I wonder what the readers of this thread have experienced with this model and how acceptance in the wider company was handled.

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | junior full stack | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Junior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> grnh.se/866aea7c1
  

features:

  mature & cross-functional team
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  work on own projects 20% of the time
  25% remote if you prefer
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym- and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with easy commute and cheap, good food options around

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | junior full stack | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Junior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> grnh.se/866aea7c1
  

features:

  mature & cross-functional teams
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  work on own projects 20% of the time
  25% remote if you prefer
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym- and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with easy commute and cheap, good food options around

Oops yeah I assumed.

Here is the gist https://gist.github.com/christophstrasen/65461f921b5e8a8be23...

A tiny script in my google account that regularly scans the next week and auto-rejects meetings invites when they don't have an agenda and a goal specified. It then emails the meeting owner with a request to change.

PM me for the code.

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | junior full stack | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Junior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> grnh.se/866aea7c1
  

Disclaimer: We value transparency and honesty. Therefore, we would like you to know that our engineering team halved from 8 to 4 in the last year. Now that we have turned the corner, we are regrowing the team and plan to come out stronger and more capable than before.

features:

  mature & cross-functional teams
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  work on own projects 20% of the time
  25% remote if you prefer
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym- and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with easy commute and cheap, good food options around

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | junior full stack | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Junior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> grnh.se/866aea7c1
  

features:

  mature & cross-functional teams
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  work on own projects 20% of the time
  25% remote if you prefer
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym- and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams, fun-force, rooftop gardening ..
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus
  blue card sponsoring
  office in the heart of Berlin with easy commute and cheap, good food options around

MEDIGO | Berlin | fulltime | multiple positions | onsite | visa | relocation | internships

  Junior/Senior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> http://grnh.se/i7n81y1
  Junior/Senior Front End Developer (react) -> http://grnh.se/u1gbiq1

features:

  mature & cross-functional teams with high seniority
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  work on own projects 20% of the time
  25% remote if you prefer
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym- and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams
  any hardware/software/tools you need
  relocation/sign-on bonus

Woah. Its bad enough with react which many did not expect. Now also this BS. No thanks really.

MEDIGO | Berlin | onsite | visa | interns

  Junior/Senior Full Stack Developer (go, react) -> http://grnh.se/i7n81y1
  Junior/Senior Front End Developer (react) -> http://grnh.se/u1gbiq1

features:

  mature & cross-functional teams
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  work on own projects 20% of the time
  25% remote if you like
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym- and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams
  any hardware/software/tools you need

MEDIGO | Berlin | onsite | visa | interns

  Junior/Senior Full Stack Developer (go, python, react) -> http://grnh.se/i7n81y1
  Junior/Senior Front End Developer (React) -> http://grnh.se/u1gbiq1

features:

  mature & cross-functional teams
  solid CI/CD/chatops pipeline
  work on own projects 20% of the time
  25% remote if you like
  trunk development model w. feature flags
  company sports events (beach volleyball, gym- and marathon-teams ..)
  learning culture, hack-teams
  any hardware/software/tools you need