Senior Backend Engineer - Mobile Team (f/m/x)

ABOUT US

At Ada, we envision a world where everyone has access to the healthcare they need. In one of the biggest challenges facing the world, we pioneered a new form of artificial intelligence, combining medical knowledge with intelligent technology to empower millions of people to better understand their health. We’re proud to support medical doctors and work with leading health systems and global non-profit organizations. We’re a diversely skilled team representing 50 nationalities, and we’re growing rapidly to achieve our global ambitions for the future of health. This is just the beginning.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our company. Your work will guide millions of users toward better health!

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to deliver high-quality, platform applications and features.
• Contribute to shaping the team’s technical vision and culture, promoting innovation and best practices, taking architectural decisions
• Design, develop and implement complex backend components ensuring high availability and delivering a client-centric interfaces
• Help the team to employ state-of-the-art development methodologies, technologies and tools. 
• Actively participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing and pair programming sessions to foster a collaborative and learning-oriented environment
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in the backend development landscape. 
• Contribute to the development of customer-oriented and data-driven features that enhance user experience and drive our business goals.

What you’ll bring

• Expertise in Spring Boot and a deep understanding of modern Kotlin
• Strong proficiency in unit and integration testing methodologies, with a commitment to heavily relying on testing practices throughout the backend development process.
• Willing to work on the architectural evolution of the application with the security and data protection in mind.
• Proven ability to assess and evaluate multiple potential solutions, with a focus on finding a balanced approach that aligns with project requirements.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills
• You are happy to pair, learn, teach, share, communicate, and document things every day.
• Proactive, result-oriented, and highly motivated with a strong sense of ownership and initiative
• We believe that you’ll learn the necessary tools on the job, but additional experience with our stack is a bonus. These technologies and tools include Kotlin, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Google Cloud Storage and Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, Helm and Jenkins. Apart from that our team relies on React and NestJS for the frontend part of the application.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

What’s awaiting you at Ada

• Flexible working hours to maintain a healthy work/life balance
• 28 days holiday, plus bank holidays to unplug, rest and recharge for our UK employees (30 days plus public holidays in Germany)
• Corporate health insurance and pension scheme (UK)
• Support to set up your home office space, with the option for a co-working space subscription for our remote employees
• Parental benefits (Plus Nursery Benefits for the UK)
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you look after your emotional wellbeing and deal with life’s challenges
• Stay active and healthy with a discounted ClassPass membership (or Urban Sports Club membership for our employees in Germany)
• Bike Leasing Scheme (Germany)
• Online Academy for learning and development opportunities

CONTACT
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].

Please note that we do NOT accept applications sent via email. All applications need to be completed using the online form.
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