Do you want to participate in building a large-scale, ambitious yet realistic project? To be part of an involved and passionate team, which values initiative and progress? Do you want to have your say in the design of a product that will raise the standards of the travel insurance industry? Welcome to Koala.

How?

By building a robust, product-driven technical stack, which cores is a stable, fast and scalable API for our partners to integrate with.

By also putting a strong emphasis on developer experience through clear documentation and recipes.

Methodology

• Exhaustive internal documentation

• Code reviews

• Ownership (Tech Holder)

Backend

• TypeScript

• Node.js, NestJS, Postgres

• Zod, Prisma, XState

• Jest

Infrastructure

• CDK (infrastructure as code)

• ECS (container orchestration) / Fargate (compute engine)

• Lambda (serverless compute)

• EventBridge (event bus) / SQS (queues)

• DynamoDB (document database) / AWS RDS (Aurora) (relational database)

• Step Functions (orchestration)

• Kinesis Data Streams / Kinesis Data Firehose / Athena

We are a small tech team (4 developers + the CTO), with a complex domain and a rich codebase with a controlled technical dept.

We need someone ready to deep dive into the complex (but somehow fun) world of insurance. Hence, we are looking for an experienced typescript backend developer, who loves software craftsmanship and the product-driven and LEAN approach. Someone prompt in delivering simple solutions to complex problems, who values good practices and understands the principles of OOP and SOLID.

Must have

• TypeScript & Ecosystem

• Software craftsmanship

• Dealt with Node.js-based API at scale

• Professional English

• Strong communication skills

Nice to have

• Professional French

• Experience in an early startup

• Knows the concept of Event-Driven Architecture

• Experience with some of our core libs (Nest, Zod, Prisma)

• Experience in cloud native architecture

• Knows AWS

• Management proficiency

Absolute Bonus

• Knows the fundamentals of insurance

• 30-min call with Antony (founder and CTO) to talk about the company, the technical stack and ensure the technical fit

• Homework (technical test)

• Immersion with your future teammates, including a deep dive in your previous experiences and some roleplay

… So apply quickly! We look forward to meeting you!

Koala guarantees equal opportunities to all candidates. Each application received is put into consideration regardless of ethnic and racial origin, opinions, beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, health or handicap.