Medior Back-end Developer

Come join us, and shape the future of the insurance industry!

SCOR Digital Solutions (ReMark) is SCOR’s tech-hub for automated underwriting, claims, and HealthTech solutions. By combining SCOR’s comprehensive data and analytical expertise with the award-winning capabilities of our in-house product and technical teams, our solutions are helping insurers to transform the experience of their consumers worldwide. We also conduct annual research with more than 12,500 insurance consumers in 22 key markets around the world, ensuring our solutions are always imbued with the voice of today’s consumers.

SCOR Digital Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. Our team is incredibly diverse, featuring over 175 employees from 33 nationalities across global 15 offices.

The role

As a Medior back-end developer, you will play an essential role in building and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code within a team of developers.

Key responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, scalable and reliable Ruby code.
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance.
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications.
• Identify bottlenecks, bugs and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation, i.e. automated testing.
• Follow emerging technologies.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Architecting and integrating user-facing elements developed by front-end developers using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL or MySQL;
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Define concepts, models, and representations which are needed for the implementation.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Liaise with developers, designers, and system administrators to identify new features.
• Gather and address technical and design requirements.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest tools, trends, and technologies.

Core competencies

• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.
• Ability to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Ability to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms.
• Stickler for high-quality code and clean architecture.
• Excellent analytical and time management skills.
• Comfortable working in an Agile way, and to self-manage tasks and workflow.

Personal competencies/Nice to have

• Enthusiastic.
• Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS).
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM and Restful.
• Familiarity with continuous integration

Required education & experience

• BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field.
• Minimum of 5 years working experience ideally with digital agencies or tech start-ups.
• Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails and relevant databases (MySQL / PostgreSQL).
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment).

What we offer

• Be part of an international culture with Tech specialists.
• Medical Allowance and pension plans.
• Remuneration Policy.
• Green Policy.
• Evolve in a stimulating and challenging environment.
• Share and learn with a passionate international community.
• Evolve in a start-up mentality.

The company working language is English. All employees should speak, read and write English to a sufficient level in order to communicate and operate effectively in the organization.