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  • Your mission

    As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping and enhancing our customer-facing applications. On one side, you’ll empower small- and medium-sized business owners to better understand their finances and access competitive financial products. On the other, you’ll help banks utilize customer data to offer the right financial products at the right time. Your main focus will be hands-on backend engineering, driving the robustness and scalability of these critical platforms.

    Your role and contribution

    • Coding: Actively contribute to the codebase, developing features and solving complex technical challenges
    • Ensure Delivery: Process the entire software delivery process, from coding to deployment, ensuring deadlines are met without compromising quality
    • Collaboration: Connect closely with product managers and other stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals and collaborate with frontend engineers, DevOps, and other technical teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment
    • Documentation: Ensure that all processes and code are thoroughly documented for future reference and knowledge sharing
    • Drive Collaboration: Actively participate in team discussions, code reviews, and brainstorming sessions to promote a culture of shared ownership and continuous improvement.

    Your profile

    • Minimum 8 years of experience in software engineering
    • Strong expertise in backend development with Python
    • Proven ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance systems
    • Experience with databases like PostgreSQL, Redis (or similar), Kafka (or similar)
    • Strong skills building APIs
    • Microservices architecture; Event Based; CQRS; SOLID; Asyncronous System
    • Self-starter: Highly motivated with the ability to work independently and take initiative
    • Collaborative: Strong team player with excellent communication skills
    • Adaptable: Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, balancing speed and quality
    • Fluent in English
    • Willing to travel occasionally to Berlin and/or Eschborn

    Our benefits

    • Educational budget of up to 1.500 Euros per year to enhance your professional knowledge and skills
    • A space to express yourself - shape this role and your work according to what you think works best for your development and company success
    • A hybrid work environment - we have locations in Eschborn (near Frankfurt) and Berlin to come together to collaborate. The rest of the time enjoy the flexibility of remote work
    • An exciting mix of cultures - yes, multiple nationalities coming together to serve small business owners AND a mix of speedy and scrappy startup action as well as an established brand to have our backs
    • An opportunity to make a difference - in the lives of small business owners and in shaping the way we work, what benefits to establish and how we celebrate each other

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