balticfinance is an international service provider for insurance brokers with direct access to the world’s biggest market for specialty insurances – Lloyd’s of London. The administration of the insurance policies incl. offers, invoices and cash collection is done by an inhouse-developed web-application, for whose ongoing development we are in search of support. In a relaxed atmosphere we offer high self-responsibility as part of a small innovative team. With us, you get to know the interesting parts of the insurance industry.

In our IT team you’ll take care of a wide range of important and diverse tasks. As a fast growing company we are presented with many exciting and challenging projects. The biggest chunk of your time will be spent as follows:

• analyse requirements of the business
• design of the optimal solution in direct communication with the business
• test driven development of the designed solutions in Java and JavaScript
• coaching of the users

In addition to an open mind and the motivation to further develop an exciting company, the following qualifications are needed for this job:

• Degree in or currently studying computer sciences
• basic knowledge of Java or proficient in another object oriented language
• experience in handling SQL databases (i.e. MSSQL, MySQL or PostgreSQL)
• experience in Web development with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• you are aware of your own ignorance and have a constant drive to further develop your skill set (we regularly visit conferences)

If you’ve already tackled some of the following buzzwords, we would be thrilled:

• version control with git
• knowledge how an ORM works, especially Hibernate with Spring Data
• web development with JQuery, vuejs, SPAs
• web design (CSS, bootstrap, responsiveness, UX)
• unit testing, integration testing, test driven development, maybe with JUnit, Mockito and/or Selenium

We look forward to your application!