Backend Engineer – Core Systems

If you’re excited about solving complex systems challenges and shaping the future of financial services, we’d love to meet you.

This is a hybrid role from our offices in either Berlin or Barcelona.

N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it’s how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use.

We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do.

We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.

• Join our Core Systems domain as an experienced Backend Engineer on the Product Factory team. You’ll design and build high-performance, high-throughput, and highly configurable platforms that power our financial infrastructure. Your work will enable self-service configuration of core banking products such as spanning product definition, bookkeeping, account lifecycle, and regulatory reporting. These foundational platforms are essential for the entire organization, allowing teams across the company to quickly and reliably release innovative products to our customers.
• Partner with your Tech Lead to design and deliver new features from concept to production.
• Take ownership of the full development lifecycle: design, build, test, deploy, and maintain high-quality software in a dynamic environment.
• Mentor and support junior engineers by championing code quality in reviews and providing guidance when needed.
• Stay ahead of the curve by exploring new technologies and sharing your insights during our Get Stuff Done Days.
• Collaborate with your cross-functional team to uphold and evolve technical standards across the product.

• Experience in developing software using a JVM language and Spring Boot in large-scale production systems (note: experience of Kotlin would be a plus)
• Sound understanding of microservices architecture
• Knowledge of both relational and non-relational databases, preferably Postgres
• Appreciation of working in a modern cloud architecture, preferably with AWS
• Full professional proficiency in English
• Strong bias for action, and getting things done
• Ongoing appreciation and consideration for security
• Motivation to write code which is well-tested and well-documented
• Give and receive open, direct and timely feedback