At ottonova, we value teamwork, technical excellence, delivering value, positivity, constant improvement, growth and innovation. We aim to build the best digital health insurance in the world. Therefore, we are looking for a PHP Software Engineer to join our team in Munich and further develop the modern ottonova software ecosystem.

You will be part of one of our five software engineering teams, which offer a great way to contribute to our advanced software system and to learn from experienced Software Engineers to advance in your professional career. In addition, you will have the opportunity to participate in our craft focused Chapters, where we share experience and knowledge between our Engineers. This will enable you to learn and grow at an accelerated pace.

Take a look at our stack: https://stackshare.io/ottonova/backend

As a Software Engineer in this team, you will work on systems that directly impact how customers and partners sign up, get assessed or get onboarded into our insurance products.
You will contribute to backend services that support:

• Digital customer acquisition flows for B2C and broker driven B2B channels
• Underwriting processes, including health questionnaires, rules, and risk assessment
• APIs and integrations used across our internal and external ecosystem

You will work with a modern PHP stack and collaborate closely with Product Managers, and other Engineers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

Your responsibilities include:

• Developing new functionalities: Contribute to the development of new features while ensuring the code base remains reliable, maintainable, and high performing
• Owning your code: Take full responsibility for testing your work, including writing automated tests to guarantee reliability and functionality
• Collaborating with teams: Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain software components, ensuring smooth integration across the entire ecosystem
• Documenting and reviewing: Participate in code reviews and document your work to ensure knowledge sharing and maintainable solutions
• Driving innovation: Bring creativity and problem-solving skills to the table, help us redefine how people perceive health insurance

This role is a great fit if you are a solid mid-level PHP engineer who wants to deepen their backend expertise and take on more responsibility over time. Along with a positive work ethic and a willingness to learn and develop both personally and professionally, you will bring the following to the table:

• You have shown ownership for a PHP software artifact on all levels: innovation, maintenance, monitoring and debugging
• You are experienced in producing high-quality software: testing, code reviews and clean coding practices
• You are able to clearly express and discuss technical concepts and write technical documentation
• You have a great understanding of your personal toolset: Operating system, IDE and debugging tools
• You have a proficient level of written and spoken English as well as clear and effective communication skills

You complement your profile with good knowledge of:

• PHP 8
• The latest version of a major PHP framework like Symfony or Laravel
• Building RESTful APIs and their documentation with the OpenAPI standard
• Architecture design pattern like DDD or CQRS
• How to build and maintain backend services via the micro service pattern
• Message queues like RabbitMQ or SQS and asynchronous messages
• Web security and how to build resilient APIs
• Unit testing
• Dependency management with Composer
• Version control with git
• Relational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL

Not required, but a bonus:

• Experience with an additional backend relevant programming language like GoLang or Python
• Experience in a technology focused environment
• Experience with DevOps, AWS, CI/CD pipelines
• Virtualisation via Docker
• Experience with the Scrum process
• Knowledge of the German language
• Any other knowledge and skills that could help us to build the best health insurance in the world!

At ottonova you have the opportunity to actively shape one of the most exciting new companies on the market. Here you can expect an experienced, highly motivated, and colorful team and the freedom to contribute and pursue your own ideas.

As a health insurance company, we are committed to health - also for our employees. Since fruits, coffee and cereals are already part of our equipment, we offer you a variety of other benefits:

• sports & fitness subsidy
• Company health insurance
• Company pension plan
• travel subsidy
• Corporate Benefits
• trainings and courses
• ottonova Balance – Mobile working
• 30 days vacation, plus December 24th & 31st off
• ottobike – Bike-Leasing
• Ticket Plus City Card
• Employees-recruit-employees

ottonova drives a mutually responsible, respectful and humorous interaction with a clear value system. Our diversity is a strength because it makes us more creative and productive. We value every individual and are fully committed to supporting their personal and professional development.

Apply right away!

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ottonova is Germany's first digital private health insurance company. With its specially developed app and many other innovative and digital services, the young company from Munich provides advice at eye level and fast processes when it comes to the health of its customers. The unique combination of insurance company, tech expertise and personal customer advice is unique in the InsurTech industry and more than 100 employees* work every day to provide customers with an even better experience with their health insurance.

We are one of the most exciting new insurance companies on the market. Together, we are digitizing the dusty industry and offering completely new services. We show that health insurance can also be fun. Well-worn processes and outdated hierarchies are out of place with us. Our highly motivated employees are given plenty of personal freedom to develop and drive forward their own ideas. Flexible working hours and a fair remuneration package are a matter of course.