rubarb
The Art of Saving and Investing
About rubarb
rubarb is the clever way to save.
With a team of exceptional people, we want to empower everyday people to live a worry-free financial life. Even today, access to financial products is still complex and hence unevenly distributed, when in fact, it requires simple solutions to make them accessible to all. In November 2020 we went live with the rubarb app, offering a fully automated savings and investment platform for everyday people. Customers can make use of round-ups, savings plans and one-time payments in order to save money - free of barriers to entry and sustainable.
PS.: You can download the app from Google Play Store and Apple App Store and follow our journey on Instagram and TikTok.
OUR TECH STACK
- Back-end services are all written in GO
- Apps are developed natively. The iOS is written in SWIFT and the android app in KOTLIN
- SOA with AWS SQS passing messages between brokers
- A combination of AWS Lambda functions and docker containers running in ECS for our core platform
- Terraform to orchestrate the AWS architecture
- Automatic deployment using GitLab-CI
- All code is scanned with Sonarqube, target test coverage 80 %
- We say NO to: Monoliths, Jenkins, on-premise servers, manual deployments
Perks & benefits
["30 vacation days", "Flexibility to work at the office or at home", "Wednesday afternoons to learn", "Regular team events", "Free drinks at the office", "Ego-free culture", "Automatic deployment using gitlab-ci", "Service oriented architecture (SOA) with AWS SQS", "All backend services are written in GO", "100 % cloud-based"]
Team members
- Jakob Scholz - CPO
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer Jakob Scholz is a finance expert with previous experience in investment banking and FinTech. He has successfully built and marketed investment products and advised on international transactions. Being a St. Gallen alumni, Jakob spent three years in investment banking with Credit Suisse in Zurich, before building ETF-based products for Berlin-based FinTech raisin.
- Kelvin Craig - CTO
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer Kelvin Craig is an IT veteran with 25+ years of experience in building and scaling tech organisations. He has led 100+ employees at Hamburg-based FinTech Deposit Solutions, facilitating an international expansion and working in a BaFin-regulated environment. Previous to that, he had scaled the Goodgame Studios platform internationally whilst leading 50+ engineers. Being a British native, he has been working in various consulting and tech leadership roles in the UK for 15 years
- Fabian Scholz - CEO
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer Fabian Scholz is an experienced entrepreneur, having successfully built and exited a business before, he knows the worlds of B2B and B2C, managing global teams and scaling businesses to profitability. A graduate of Bucerius Law School, Fabian quickly moved into business and built e-commerce companies, amongst others as Head of Australia for Dreamlines, before founding and exiting PALTRON.
Company milestones
- 2020 - In November 2020 we went live with the rubarb app.
- 2019 - In October 2019 rubarb was founded by Fabian Scholz (CEO), Jakob Scholz (CPO) and Kelvin Craig (CTO)
Our offices
- Speersort 4-6, Hamburg, Hamburg, Deutschland
