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Senior Software Engineer

Tech & Product
Berlin, DE

About Ageras & Kontist

Ageras, a leading and profitable fintech group, is home to several successful brands, including Kontist, Tellow, Billy, Salary, Zervant, and Ageras Advisor. With a team of around 250 employees and substantial financial backing from Investcorp, Rabo Frontier, and Lugard Road Capital, our vision is to enable success for small businesses by providing digital tools and services, aiming to eliminate administrative tasks and let them focus on running their business.

Kontist, a pioneering fintech company that is part of the Ageras, is based in Berlin and primarily serves the German market. We provide Banking, bookkeeping, and DIY tax solutions. With the backing of Ageras and its strong portfolio of brands, our ambition is to become the leading fintech solution for freelancers and small businesses across Europe.

About the job

Your key objectives for the first half of the year

  • As part of the team develop and scale our DIY Taxes and/or Banking product across multiple European countries, ensuring that it will be the leading solution in our core markets in Europe.
  • Design solutions that can seamlessly integrate with both our internal products and external partners, enhancing our service offering and user experience.
  • Champion the use of best practices for building scalable distributed systems within the team and across the organization, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

Requirements

To succeed in this role you have

  • Technical Expertise: You bring extensive experience with event-driven architecture, distributed systems, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), microservices, and hexagonal architecture. This technical foundation is crucial for building solutions that are easy to maintain and integrate.
  • Programming Proficiency: You possess strong knowledge of Typescript, React, Node.js and React-Native. This versatility enables you to handle a broad spectrum of development tasks.
  • Full Stack Capability: You are open to working full stack. Having experience with front-end and mobile development is a significant advantage, enabling you to build products end-to-end.
  • Communication Skills: You have strong communication skills, particularly when it comes to communicating technical decisions and strategies using technical diagrams. This ensures clear and effective collaboration within our diverse team.
  • Passion & Quick Learning Capabilities: We understand that you might not have experience with all the things mentioned above. What's most important to us is your ability to learn quickly and your passion for what you do. We value your enthusiasm, proactivity, and adaptability as much as your technical skills.

Nice to have

It's great to have

  • In-depth Understanding of Our Tech Stack: While strong Typescript, Node.js and React knowledge is essential, familiarity with our broader tech stack including PostgreSQL, Sequelize, GraphQL, Apollo and Docker will be highly regarded. We encourage ongoing learning and offer opportunities to deepen your expertise in these areas.
  • DevOps Skills: You demonstrate strong skills in DevOps, including CI/CD and observability. This expertise is key to ensuring smooth operations.
  • AI Tools Experience: You have a passion for and experience with modern AI tools for software engineering productivity and ideally for product development. This is crucial as it helps us to solve complex challenges our customers are facing.
  • Adaptability to Agile Environments: Whether you're a Scrum master or have dabbled in Kanban, we value the ability to adapt and thrive in our Agile development environment. We're looking for individuals who can contribute to our continuous improvement processes and embrace change.
  • Automated Testing Experience: You bring strong experience with automated testing at all levels: unit, integration, component, end-to-end testing, etc. This ensures the reliability and quality of our software.

Benefits

We help you succeed by offering

Joining Kontist means being part of a company that's redefining the fintech space. We offer a collaborative work environment where your voice is always heard, and you'll have the chance to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Our office is located in Berlin, one of Europe's most vibrant cities, known for its rich blend of culture, history, and innovation. We offer the flexibility to work from our beautiful office in Berlin and up to two days per week from home.

In addition, we provide a list of benefits.

  • Do you like to travel the world? Then you have the opportunity to visit and work from our offices in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Gdansk, Helsinki, and Philadelphia.
  • A subsidised Urban Sports Club Membership (some great USC partners are near the office).
  • Daily free Office Lunches from our partner Smunch.
  • 30 days of annual holidays plus an extra vacation day on your birthday.
  • 500,00 € to upgrade your home office workspace.

Our recruitment process

At Ageras, we value efficiency and aim to make decisions quickly. Our goal is to complete the entire recruitment process within one or two weeks. To ensure you know what to expect, we provide all the details before each step. Here are the steps you can expect:

  1. CV Review
  2. (Optional) Initial HR screening
  3. Discussion with the Engineering Manager (45 mins)
  4. Technical Interview Session with two team members (1.5 hours)
  5. Job Offer

Interested in applying?

We look forward to your application and the possibility of you joining our team!

Research shows that while men may apply for a job even if they just meet 60% of the job criteria, women tend to apply only if they meet 100% of the criteria. We encourage you to apply even though you may feel you do not meet all the criteria. If you have any questions, feel free to connect with our People and Culture team’s Talent Acquisition Specialist Nadine Loyal-Perk (linkedin.com/in/nadineloyal-perk/, +49(0)152 089 28 584), who is supporting the hiring process.

About Ageras

Ageras is a software platform enabling +300.000 small businesses all over Europe to run their business in a better way by integrating accounting, banking and taxes into an intuitive dashboard so the business owners can focus on running their business and eliminate administrative burdens.

Ageras is a business platform that empowers small businesses to achieve success by reducing the administrative burden and manage their finances. We provide the tools needed to improve their business operations by automating the complexities of accounting and banking, ultimately providing them with a more comprehensive overview. This enables small business owners to concentrate on steering their business in the right direction while shedding the administrative burdens. At Ageras, we want to elevate the quality of life for small business owners by fostering their success.

With offices located in Copenhagen, Helsinki , Berlin, Amsterdam, Gdańsk and Philadelphia, Ageras is a leading international provider of banking and accounting services assisting small businesses across Europe and the US.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, colour, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.

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About Ageras

About Ageras

At Ageras Group, we enabling success for small businesses by building the best ecosystem around their financial needs. With a well-preserved start-up spirit, we are today an ambitious group of fintech-companies with around 350 employees operating across 12 markets in Europe and the US.

As the home of Kontist, Billy, Meneto, Tellow, Salary, Zervant, and Ageras Marketplace, and being financially backed by Investcorp, Rabo Frontier and Lugard Road Capital, we are on a mission to revolutionize the financial industry.

The group is a built on a passion for entrepreneurship. Serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund founded Ageras in 2012 and has since turned their vision into a global venture with a strong offering.

Ageras Group is the home of Billy, Tellow and Ageras Marketplace. Each brand has a unique offering enabling success for small and micro-businesses, we are currently active in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany and United States.

Working benefits

At Ageras Group, we take fun seriously, because motivated Agerians equal happy clients and partners. We go the extra mile to ensure that our employees come motivated and happy to work and thrive in our dynamic, international work environment.

Office Snacks

Still hungry after enjoying the best lunch in town? Don’t worry, we offer snacks, sodas, coffee, tea, etc. to keep your energy up.

Growth Opportunities

Explore our career opportunities and grow your professional skills across our various products and international offices.

Social Gatherings

Get to know your colleagues by joining our weekly Friday bars, Board game nights, company parties, sport competitions and other social events.

Central & Modern Offices

Modern offices with all facilities to make work fun, from gaming room, great meeting facilities to lounge areas. Located centrally to ensure easy commute to work.

Scale-up environment

Join our passionate and entrepreneurial teams and be able to contribute with your ideas and skills to our exciting growth journey.

Are you interested? Apply now

What our
employees
say

I’ve had the pleasure to be part of Ageras for most of its journey – and what a journey!
Ageras is not a company maintaining the status quo, it is a living organism – always adapting, always moving, always growing. The mindset of “just because something works, does not mean that it cannot be improved” is something incredibly valuable.

Zuzana Repova
Head of Product Marketing

Getting to do this with the all Micro Heroes in Ageras is what makes the journey so exciting!
After being a part of Ageras for almost a year, I have come to learn and enjoy the high paced work-environment that characterizes the company. Together with my skilled colleagues, we aim to be the best at helping both microbusinesses and our partners grow their businesses, by finding the perfect match for both parties.

Andreas Selset
Head of Client Consulting

An adventure which develops, improves, and gives me a lot of learning which brings excitement, energy and smiles to me and my colleagues every day. The sum of all that is what gives me the passion to give our customers the best start and onboarding in Meneto.

Nikolaj Kjøller-Hansen
Onboarding Manager at Meneto
Working at
Ageras Group

Together we believe we can achieve great success and we are on a mission to conquer the world.

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Frequently asked
questions,
answered.

Who can I turn to if I have questions throughout the recruitment process?

You are always welcome to reach out to HR and Talent Acquisition if you have any questions about our recruitment process, an open position or more generally about working at Ageras Group.Phone number: 31791715

What do Ageras Group look for in a potential candidate?

At Ageras Group, we don’t have our mind set on an “ideal” candidate. Instead, we aim for diversity in all aspects, and are proud to be represented by employees with all possible professional and academic backgrounds and with 19 different nationalities. However, what we all do have in common (and what we also would like to see in our next employee) is that we thrive in an everchanging environment and always strive to do better.

What does your recruitment process look like?

A recruitment process at Ageras Group will most often look something like this:
Quick telephone screening – 1st interview – Assessment – 2nd interview - Hire
Read more about the 1st and 2nd interview below.

How should I prepare for a 1st interview?

If you are invited in for a 1st round interview, it’s because you have made a great first impression! Now we just want to get to know you better, and equally important - give you a chance to get to know us. The best advice we can give you is to be yourself. We will probably come well around your CV, but we would also like to know who you are when you are not at work. Maybe you have some cool hobbies, a totally unrealistic dream in life or an impressive party trick? Also, remember that we are here to answer all your questions as well. So fire away!

How should I prepare for a 2nd interview (/test-feedback)?

By now, we have must likely spoken a couple of times and hopefully feel that we know each other relatively well. For this 2nd interview, however, we will use the assessment you have done as a basis for dialogue about your approach to work and your professional behavior and mindset. Our goal is to come around your preferences, development areas and strengths so that your potential new manager will know how to create the best possible conditions for you and your employment.
In other words, we don’t expect much preparation from your side, expect for a bit of reflection about the above.

How should I dress for an interview at Ageras Group?

Dress as you! At Ageras Group, we don’t really have a dress code. Some like sneakers and hoodies, while others are more comfortable in a crisp shirt and polished shoes. Wear what you feel comfortable and confident in – so will we.

Can I apply for more than one job?

Sure thing! If there’s more than one job you could see yourself in, then that’s great! Just remember to express why this exact position is (also) the right match for you.

When can I expect to hear back from you after I have applied for a job?

We respect the time you have put into applying for one of our jobs, and do our best to get back to you as soon as we possibly can. Sometimes we manage get back to you within a couple of days, other times after a couple of weeks. However, you can always trust that we will get back to you within a maximum of four weeks.

Regardless if we see you as a good fit or not as the best fit this exact time around, you will ALWAYS hear back from us.

How long are vacancies open for applications?

We rarely operate with application deadlines. Instead, we keep each position open until we have found the very one. However, as a rule of thumb, you can expect a vacancy to be open for at least a couple of weeks.

What if I’m currently not based in the location for the job I’m interested in?

Awesome! We welcome applicants from all countries with a working permit in the country where the job is localized. Currently, we are proud to be represented by 19 different nationalities, and would love for the number to be even higher!

If you are invited to a physical interview in another country than you are currently residing in, we will of course reimburse all costs related to travelling.

In terms of relocating, we are not able to offer any relocation package, but will be happy to put our expertise at your disposal and help as much as we can.