OUR VISION & MISSION
HEAD OF MARKETING & SALES
MANAGING DIRECTOR
WHAT BRINGS BREAD TO OUR TABLE
In 2010, a few friends came together with an idea to disrupt the insurance industry. Friendsurance offers a series of innovative digital insurance solutions with the aim of making insurance more customer-friendly.
THINGS THAT MATTER TO BOTH OF US
Wellbeing
Your brightest thoughts, your team skills and your drive. All the things a team needs from you are only there when you do well as a person. We aim to be a positive force, regardless of challenge, personal or at work.
Development
Our Personal Development and Pioneer programs are designed to make development a natural part of your week. We don’t want you to be part of the market statistics of people leaving work due to lack of growth.
Company Growth
Growth is not a solo act, the environment you work in massively influences your personal growth. Throughout our soon to be 10 years there are constantly doors opened, which we months earlier did not know of.
OUR POINT OF VIEW
Meet The Tech Pioneers From Our Friendsurance IT-Team
Who are the faces behind Friendsurance's tech platform and innovations? Get to know the members of our IT team. Dive into their daily work, assignments and challenges in a series of interviews.
What An Anniversary - We Are On The Market For 11 Years!
After 11 years, it is fair to say that Friendsurance has already triggered a number of changes and developments in insurance. And yet, there is still so much to be done - reflects Tim Kunde, Co-Founder of Friendsurance.
Increased Remote Work Is Increased Productivity
Adapting to the new normal, is one of the exercises all companies are working on these days. Are your decisions fact driven? Here are some insights to what we found out and which model we will now test.
How Does a First Day With Us Actually Looks Like
We have tried to capture the essence of how it is to go to work in Berlin as a new city and feeling Vorfreude turn into Freude. Don't know yet what Vorfreude or Freude means? Look it up!
difficulty or empowerment?
a win win?
is it real or in your mind?
what is worth your time?
OPEN POSITIONS
We are looking for a Head of Data (m/f/d)
This is a full time position, working as part of a strong and growing Data Team on site in Berlin. Data is the true core of our insurance business model and thus one of the most significant factors for the future success of Friendsurance.
Your Tasks & Responsibilities
- Define and implement our company-wide data strategy by defining solutions which fulfill our strategic and operational needs
- Make Friendsurance an even more data-driven organization
- Maintain and develop all data topics in the company including Data Analytics, Data Engineering and Data Science
- Define and implement the processes around Data Governance and Data Quality
- Understand key drivers of business performance and support important strategic projects for Product, Marketing, CRM and other departments from data and technology perspectives
- Define and develop joint OKRs and help to successfully achieve them
- Provide technical data solutions to further grow the business
- Engage with leaders across the company to deliver outstanding products to satisfy the needs of our internal and external customers
- Establish, improve and support agile processes
- Build, lead, inspire and develop a growing Data Team in Friendsurance
- Invest time in personal development of your team members and help them grow
- You will be reporting directly to the CTO
Your profile
- 5+ years of experience in data leadership role (with team sizes of 5+ members)
- 3+ years of hands-on implementation experience in the field of data engineering or data science, preferably having delivered data solutions end to end
- Up to date knowledge about current Data, ML and Analytics tools and their applications
- Entrepreneurial mindset and hands-on capabilities in creating products with a great user experience. You can define, develop and advocate a data product roadmap, have a progressive approach and the ability to introduce and inspire change
- Deep understanding of the requirements of key data stakeholders and ability to translate it to an actionable plan for data scientists, data engineers or data analysts
- Commitment to Data Engineering and Business Intelligence best practices
- Strong analytical skills with an ability to sense and develop new business opportunities
- Track record of excellent communication, highly professional leadership skills in an international environment and high level of commitment
- The ability to inform, convince and persuade a range of cross functional stakeholders, also on executive level, in both verbal and written form
- Highly proficient with SQL, Python
- Experience with AWS (Kinesis, Sagemaker and other) technologies, MSSQL (MS SQL DB, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) stack; and other data related tooling landscape (e.g. Databricks, Tableau, Snowplow, Segment, Looker and other) is a big plus
- Experience in web and app tracking (e.g. Google Analytics, Matomo, Adjust) is a plus
- Experience with Fintech or Insurtech is a big plus
- Fluent in English, German is preferrable
Our Offer
- Be part of a pioneering team fearless of change
- Go to work in a team where high level of qualifications and soft skills are equally cherished
- Be part of an agile team that is not only highly skilled but also works together in a trusted and respectful way and knows how to have fun together
- Experience flexibility when and where you need it thanks to our mobile office options, flexible working hours and constantly rising holidays
- Use your personal development budget, regular feedback talks and career development meetings to never stop growing and learning
- Move forward with cutting edge innovative technologies
- Go home with attractive salary and perspectives
- Work in a fast-moving team that feels like family
- We provide visa support and relocation budget
For further questions, please contact Manuel Diez Gaspard at jobs@friendsurance.de. We are looking forward to your application!
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Friendsurance is looking for a dedicated (Senior) Tech Recruiter (m/f/d).
As a (Senior) Tech Recruiter at Friendsurance you will be part of a small but strong team of four people. As an expert in Tech Recruiting you will have a lot of freedom to act and shape your area and enjoy the trust of your stakeholders. As we want to expand our tech department in 2022, your mission is to constantly find new tech pioneers for our team. Your work will have a high direct impact on the success of Friendsurance.
Your tasks in detail:
- Together with the Hiring Managers, you identify and prioritize our vacancies in the tech area and define a strategy on how we can fill them effectively.
- You will be responsible for the complete recruiting process for these positions. This includes creating and posting the ads, designing the application process, active sourcing and direct approach of potential candidates, coordination with outstaff agencies, screening candidates and conducting screening calls, applicant management, advising the Hiring Managers up to the final offer and contract conclusion
- In addition, you will support our newcomers with the visa and relocation process as needed
- You will also analyze our recruiting channels and processes in order to continuously optimize them
- Through your excellent stakeholder management and your appreciative communication, you will ensure a positive candidate experience and satisfied hiring managers.
- You continue to manage our various employer branding channels (e.g. career site, Glassdoor) and independently develop new ideas and content to keep them up-to-date and interesting for our target groups.
- If there is a bit of breathing room in tech recruiting, you will be happy to support the P&O team with various other projects from the people area or with vacancies outside the tech area
Getting to know each other:
Due to the current corona situation, our entire interview process takes place virtually. If you feel comfortable with this, we are also happy to invite you to our Berlin office. Our process includes four interviews with the Head of People & Organization, stakeholders from the Tech Department, the People & Organization team, and one of our co-founders.
Your profile:
- You have at least three years of experience in recruiting and sourcing, including at least two years for tech positions in an agile start up / scale up environment.
- You know the job market for your target positions and know where and how to find and approach the right candidates regionally, nationally and internationally
- You have very good communication skills and stakeholder management with both candidates and hiring managers
- You are always up to date with the latest trends and developments in Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding
- You are fluent in English, German is an advantage
What we offer:
- A job that adapts to your needs and not the other way around: permanent employment, three days of home office per week, flexible working hours and an annually increasing vacation entitlement.
- With us, you never stand still: Regular career talks and your personal development budget allow you to always develop further
- Be part of a team of pioneers who are not afraid of change and are always ready to take on new challenges.
- Find a balance to your work with our free (online) sports program (back training and yoga) and our diverse team events, both large and small.
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We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d) as a permanent employee or outstaff/freelancer basis, who is not only confident and current with their skills, but also someone who is ready, able and eager to research and evaluate emerging technologies and identify those best to adopt.
This is a full time job with significant responsibility, working as part of a strong and growing team of software technologists on site in Berlin. We are also open for this position to be remote/hybrid.
Company major Technologies, Tools and Processes
- Backend: Java, Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Spring Boot
- Frontend: ReactJS, TypeScript, Redux, SASS
- QA: Selenium, Galen, Serenity, JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Mocha
- Build and Deploy: Jenkins, git, npm, Maven, Docker
- Infrastructure: AWS, Troposphere (python), Stacker, Cloudformation, Terraform (Infrastructure), Terragrunt, Ansible, EKS (k8s), MSK (Apache Kafka)
- Agile: Kanban and Scrum
Your profile
- You have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps roles or similar
- When it comes to infrastructure, you always think of automation first: You try to avoid making manual changes on a production instance at all costs
- You live and breath AWS Cloud: Services and acronyms such as EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, VPC, EKS, MSK, WAF, EBS, CloudFormation, CodeDeploy, and CloudWatch are part of your daily vocabulary and you can’t wait to read about the new services that could make your life even easier
- You strive to be the first to know about production issues even before they occur, with carefully designed monitoring preferable based on Prometheus and Grafana, and strive to work with the team to resolve them before anyone else could notice
- You practice and preach good security: you would never think of sending credentials over cleartext, you use two factor authentication whenever possible, and you make sure that latest security patches are always applied
- You make sure there are always current backups of everything, and you know they are reliable because you routinely test restores
- You are passionate about maintaining staging and testing environments, because you wouldn’t dream of deploying something to production untested
- You love working with developers and testers, and making their lives even easier by setting up super streamlined and reliable continuous integration and deployment systems
- You can install and configure Linux in your sleep, and troubleshoot network issues just as easily
- You are used to English as your working language
Your Tasks & Responsibility
- Develop, test, and deploy secure, reliable, highly available, and scalable infrastructure using AWS technologies and Ansible (or similar)
- Setup and maintain application server stack including Tomcat and Apache
- Implement a complete backup strategy for all test and production systems
- Install, configure, maintain CI/CD pipelines with tools like: Jenkins, AWS CodeDeploy scripts and other
- Setup monitoring systems using CloudWatch, Prometheus and other
- Deploy, configure and build microservices architecture based on AWS technologies ready for scaling
- Build and maintenance managed Kafka as message bus
- Work closely with technology and product teams
Our Offer
- Be part of a pioneering team fearless of change
- Be part of a multifunctional team
- Go to work in a team where high level of qualifications and soft skills are equally cherished
- Work in an agile mentality and feel the trust in your skills
- Experience flexibility when you need it and have your personal development plan
- Move forward with cutting edge technologies
- Go home with attractive salary and perspectives
We are looking forward to your application!
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Friendsurance is looking for an Executive Assistant to the CTO/CDO
to manage our CTO/CDO’s daily operations and to support Tech, Data and Agile departments in achieving highest operational efficiency. This role will also be responsible for strategically developing and tactically implementing different topics including communication strategies for the technology vertical in the full organization. By keeping our team informed and aligned around our mission, vision, strategy, and goals, you will empower our employees to take ownership in their roles and make stronger and more efficient decisions. This is a full time position with significant responsibility, joining us in our office in Berlin on a regular basis.
Your Tasks
- Support with interface between our CTO/CDO and our Tech, Data and Agile departments, assisting him to prepare and execute a wide range of projects within Friendsuance
- Measure efficiency of the departments with OKRs, KPIs, and defined goals
- Strategically manage CTO/CDO’s complex and ever-changing calendar, filtering and steering all requests and own coordination of the meetings and workshops with Tech Leadership team, focusing on relevant priorities
- Participate in recurring meetings and ensure their efficiency by taking and sharing notes and following up on responsibilities
- Organize regular team events, knowledge sharing sessions, offsites and workshops
- Work on definition of roles, guides, structures, documentation for efficient work of the the Tech, Data and Agile departments
- Participate in a variety of projects with high business impact for our partnerships together with our CTO/CDO on the topics like: Partner Due Diligence, Financial forecasting, Budget utilization, decision making about new providers, demos organization and other exciting topics
- Within the Tech, Data and Agile departments it will be your responsibility to make sure that the teams are working together like a well-oiled machine by participating in the topics like: designing team topologies, performance data preparations, hiring, agile activities, developing communication strategies and other interesting topics
- Own and continually optimize presentations and communications on new and recurring topics for our Senior Management, Management and the respective Teams in the Tech verticals
- Help further building our tech brand in the tech community by constantly being on the lookout for interesting new topics and ideas
- Prepare presentations, reports and communication on different projects including analyses
- Tactically support Tech, Agile and Data Teams in all topics around research, organization processes and communication inside departments
- Make stakeholder management together with CTO/CDO
Your Profile
- You have a degree in Business, Management, Technology or a related field of studies
- You have at least three years of experience, working preferably in a dynamic and fast-paced environment such as a Tech company or a Start up
- You have a passion for technology
- You are highly organized and have excellent communication and presentation skills including experience in creating great Google slides with professional content
- You are a hands-on person with a proactive can-do attitude
- Experience in cross functional environment and working with technical and non-technical people for achieving smooth collaboration across teams and departments
- You have advanced project management skills
- You speak fluent English, German is nice to have
Our Offer
- Join the pioneering 40+ people Tech team that builds our scalable, secure and highly modular software solution to digitize insurance services
- Be part of an agile team that is not only highly skilled but also works together in a trusted and respectful way and knows how to have fun together
- Enjoy flexibility when and where you need it thanks to our mobile office options, flexible working hours and constantly rising holidays.
- Use your personal development budget, regular feedback talks and career development meetings to never stop growing and learning
- We provide visa support and relocation budget
We are looking forward to your application! Manuel will be happy to answer all your questions at jobs@friendsurance.de
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Für unser Finanzteam suchen wir einen engagierten Financial Analyst (m/w/d) in Teilzeit
Deine Aufgaben:
- Selbstständige Erstellung und Analyse von aussagefähigen Management Reportings (GuV, Bilanz, Cash Flow, Kostenstellenrechnung, KPIs)
- Weiterentwicklung bestehender Tools und Prozesse für die interne Berichterstattung
- Selbstverantwortliche Mitwirkung an der Budgetplanung
- Erstellung von Ad-Hoc Analysen, Soll-Ist-Vergleichen und entsprechender Kommentierungen
- Mitarbeit bei der Erstellung von Monats-, Quartals- und Jahresabschlüssen
- Mitarbeit an bereichsübergreifenden Controlling-Projekten
- Erstellung und Aktualisierung von Controlling- und Planungsrechnungen, beispielsweise für neue Bancassurance-Kooperationen
Deine Qualifikationen:
- Abgeschlossenes betriebswirtschaftliches Studium, mit Schwerpunkt auf Rechnungswesen/Finanzen/Controlling bzw. in einem vergleichbaren Studiengang
- Sehr gute MS Office Kenntnisse, insbesondere Excel
- Engagierte und eigenverantwortliche Arbeitsweise sowie Verlässlichkeit
- Analytisches und konzeptionelles Denkvermögen sowie präzise und strukturierte Arbeitsweise
- Du sprichst Deutsch und Englisch fließend
Was wir bieten:
- Sei Teil unseres Teams von Pionieren, das sich nicht vor Veränderungen fürchtet
- Genieße die Arbeit in einem Team, in dem hohe Fachkenntnisse und Soft Skills gleichermaßen geschätzt werden
- Tolle Kollegen und eine motivierende Arbeitsatmosphäre, in der auch der Spaß nicht zu kurz kommt
- Flache Hierarchien und immer ein offenes Ohr
- Arbeite in einem agilen Arbeitsumfeld, wo man Vertrauen in deine Fähigkeiten hat
- Home Office Möglichkeiten
- Profitiere von Flexibilität, wenn du sie benötigst, und entwickle dich anhand deines persönlichen Entwicklungsplans und durch interne Kurse weiter
- Regelmäßige Team-Events, frisches Obst, Müsli und Getränke
- Finde einen Ausgleich zur Arbeit bei unserem Sportprogramm (Rückentraining und Yoga)
- Erfreue dich zum Feierabend an einem attraktiven Festgehalt und spannenden Karriereperspektiven
Wir freuen uns auf deine aussagekräftige Online-Bewerbung unter Angabe deines frühestmöglichen Einstiegstermins und deiner Gehaltsvorstellungen.
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We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer – Ruby (m/f/d),
who is not only confident dealing with industry adopted technologies and Software Design approaches, but able to look into emerging technologies and architecture patterns. The main focus of this role is Ruby development, but Java will also be part of your day. This is a full time job with significant responsibility, joining us in our office in Berlin.
Our Technologies, Tools, and Processes
- Ruby on Rails
- Java, Spring, Hibernate
- PostgreSQL
- TypeScript, ReactJS, Redux, SASS
- Testing: Selenium, Serenity, JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Mocha
- Build and Deploy: Jenkins, git, npm, Maven, RubyGems, Docker
- Infrastructure: AWS, CloudFormation, Terraform, Apache, Tomcat, Microservices, K8s
- Agile Process: Kanban, Scrum, standups, grooming, retrospectives, demos
Your Tasks & Responsibility
- You are a key member in one of the cross-functional technical teams responsible for Friendsurance’s main product developments on our platform or with partners. Your shared team goal is always to develop high quality code and build great products which satisfy customer demands
- It is important for you to design and build highly scalable systems keeping in mind redundancy, performance and availability
- Reviewing test cases, designs, and code developed by other team members is part of your day
- In your role you work closely not only with your fellow team members including the product owner and other technical teams, but also the business development and strategic project team
Your profile
- You take pride in your deep knowledge within the technologies, tools and processes mentioned above – in particular Ruby on Rails and Java
- People praise you for your knowledge of relational data models and cloud based architectures
- QA is for you a team responsibility and are confident in your code because you write automated tests
- Sharing knowledge within the team is a pleasure for you
- You are an experienced agile product development practitioner
- Working in English has been part of your work since years
Our Offer
- Be part of a pioneering team fearless of change
- Go to work in a place where high level of qualifications and soft skills are equally cherished
- Work in an agile environment
- Experience flexibility when you need it
- Have your personal development plan
- Move forward with cutting edge innovative technologies
- Go home with attractive salary and perspectives
- Work in a fast-moving team that feels like family
- For this position we will provide support for the visa-process and a relocation budget
For further questions, please contact Manuel Diez Gaspard at jobs@friendsurance.de. We are looking forward to your application!
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Wir suchen ab sofort einen engagierten Content Creation & Social Media Manager (m/w/d) in Teilzeit
Deine Qualifikationen:
- Du kannst gut texten und hast eine Leidenschaft fürs Schreiben und ein sehr gutes Sprachgefühl
- Content Creation ist Dein Ding und Storytelling ist kein Fremdwort für Dich. Du bist kreativ und auf dem Laufenden mit aktuellen Media-Trends
- Du hast im besten Fall schon Erfahrung im Bereich Content Marketing, Medien, Kommunikation, Journalismus , oder in einem vergleichbaren Bereich gesammelt
- Du arbeitest strukturiert und eigenständig.
Deine Aufgaben:
- Entwicklung von Content-Strategien für verschiedene Plattformen und Medien, die kurz- und langfristige Marketing-Ziele verfolgen
- Erstellung eines Content- bzw. Redaktionskalenders
- Verwaltung von Content über alle Plattformen hinweg
- Verfassen, Bearbeiten und Korrekturlesen von Inhalten
- Erstellung von Berichten und Reportings
- Verfolgung aktueller Trends zur Inspiration und Ideenentwicklung
- Unterstützung bei der Themenfindung für spannende Studien und deren Auswertung.
Was wir bieten
- Eine kreative und abwechslungsreiche Tätigkeit in einem herzlichen und humorvollen Team
- Work-Life-Balance: Erlebe Flexibilität durch flexible Arbeitszeiten sowie eine großzügige Home Office Regelung (3 Tage Home Office pro Woche). Dein Urlaubsanspruch steigt mit jedem Jahr auf bis zu 30+2 Tage!
- Weiterentwicklung: Dank deines individuellen Entwicklungsbudgets, regelmäßiger Feedbackgespräche und einem jährlichen Karriereplanungsgespräch stehst du niemals still
- Verlässlichkeit: Bei uns erhältst du eine unbefristete Festanstellung sowie ein attraktives Gehalt
- Spaß: Ob in unserem modernen Büro im Zentrum Berlins oder bei einem unserer vielen Teamevents, der Spaß kommt bei uns nicht zu kurz!
Wir freuen uns auf deine aussagekräftige Online-Bewerbung unter Angabe deines frühestmöglichen Einstiegstermins und deinen Gehaltsvorstellungen. Rückfragen beantwortet dir Manuel Diez Gaspard gerne unter jobs@friendsurance.de
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We are looking for a Partner Success Manager (m/f/d), who in this role brings not only the external and internal worlds together, but secures the best product for the customer.
Your mission and responsibilities
In your role you are driving the partnership to success from the earliest phase in defining the partnership to the continuous optimisation and further development of an existing partner product. In our large-scale B2B2C partnerships with Blue Chip companies, it’s your role to make sure everybody is set on the same goal and working towards delivering it in a focused fashion.
Key aspects of the role include:
- Distill a common vision, focus and roadmap together with the partner stakeholders and product owner(s) and help achieve joint goals of each partnership
- Build and cultivate a close relationship with the key counterparts in our partner’s organization
- Deeply analyze the metrics that are produced by the live cooperation and derive priorities & actions together with product owners, process owner and our partners to drive pragmatic solutions
- Commercially develop existing partnerships, allocate and report on budgets, create forecasts
- Help onboard and coach new team members to the existing cooperation
Your background and profile
- You have hands-on experience in agile project / product management / partner success management or similar roles for digital products
- You bring a high level of understanding for complex requirements and processes as well as a high degree of structure and organization
- You are a good listener, love interacting with people and have excellent communication skills and know your way around stakeholder management
- You have strong conceptual and analytical skills and a keen perception
- Independent, results-oriented and pragmatic work are in your skill set: You get stuff done.
- You are open, learn fast and are happy to take responsibility quickly
- When you read our culture deck it represents the way you want to work with others
- You speak German and English fluently
Our Offer
- Be part of a pioneering team fearless of change
- Go to work in a place where high level of qualifications and soft skills are equally cherished
- Work in an agile environment
- Experience flexibility when you need it
- Have your personal development plan
- Move forward with cutting edge innovative technologies
- Go home with attractive salary and perspectives
- Work in a fast-moving team that feels like family
Sounds good?
Then apply now with our online application form (indicating your earliest possible start date) and start your new job soon! We are looking forward to having you soon!
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NO POSITION MATCHES YOUR PROFESSIONAL SKILLS?
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THE DETAILS THAT MATTER
What we are looking for
Every Friendsurance team member is different in ways of origin, skills and humour. However, there are some qualities and feature sets that connect us.
Recruiting
The human being is biased by default, we limit this defect by recruiting after defined objective criteria representing wanted skill set, company values and personas.
Visa & Relocation
We helped approximately every 5th team member with relocation and it's a road we know well. From signing until your first day in Berlin, we will hold your hand.
Onboarding
You are not the only one who is excited on your first day. There is an extensive onboarding program waiting for you, ensuring that you get a good start.
JOIN FRIENDSURANCE TODAY!
Being part of the Friendsurance team means thinking new every day. We are bringing two worlds together: customer centric technical innovation and the insurance business.