Author: Alin Purcaru

  • Recruiting Backend Engineers at ottonova

    Recruiting Backend Engineers at ottonova

    Here are some words about how the Backend Team goes about finding new team members. We want to do our part and share with the Community, as well as provide a bit more transparency into ottonova and how we are building state-of-the-art software that powers Germany’s first digital health insurance.  This article covers what we…

  • Continuing our Hackathon tradition

    Continuing our Hackathon tradition

    At ottonova, we have taken the challenge of bringing a slowly moving and mostly antiquated business, the one of health insurance in Germany, into the 21st century. For over three years already we’ve been offering our customers not only competitive insurance tariffs, but also the digital products that go along with them. All this to…

  • php.barcelona

    php.barcelona

    I and the rest of the PHP engineers at ottonova, had the pleasure of attending the PHP.Barcelona Conference in November this year. It was a great experience, spanning over two full days. I’ve put together some quick and biased notes about the presentations. Here it goes… Day 1 Opening Keynote – Rasmus Lerdorf Really uplifting…