Senior 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 a Senior 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.
• Collaborate closely with your Tech Lead on architecting new features and seeing them through to completion.
• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software in a thriving environment.
• Have opportunities to mentor junior members in the team by relentlessly guarding code quality through pull requests and helping them when they have questions.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends in technology and you are not afraid to propose some findings during our Get Stuff Done Days.
• Work within your cross-functional team to uphold the highest technical standards right across the product

• What you need to be successful:
• 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 microservice architecture.
• Knowledge of both relational and non-relational databases, preferably Postgres.
• Appreciation of working in a modern cloud architecture, preferably with AWS.
• Traits:
• Actively help yourself (and others) be successful.
• Continuously learn and challenge the status quo.
• Think globally, act locally.
• Strong bias for action.
• Give and receive open, direct and timely feedback.