Junior Backend Engineer - Data Ingestion

About the Opportunity

• We are seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to join the Data Ingestion Team within the Platform Engineering Domain.
• This is an exciting opportunity for an early-career engineer to grow their skills building high-throughput data processing systems.
• Platform Engineering's mission is to provide trusted, performant, and self-service platforms.
• The Data Ingestion team is responsible for building and maintaining the pipelines that power our bank's data ecosystem, focusing on reliability, scalability, and clean engineering practices.
• The ideal candidate is an eager learner who is excited to dive into new technologies and solve technical challenges with the support of a senior team.

In this role, you will:

• Software Development: Work under the guidance of senior engineers to develop and maintain backend services for our data ingestion platform.
• Engineering Support: Support the team in applying strong engineering practices including writing automated tests, participating in code reviews, and maintaining observability.
• Proactive Learning: Proactively ask questions, propose small improvements, and collaborate with the team to deliver clean, testable code for our platform services.
• Knowledge Sharing: Participate in technical discussions, contribute to internal documentation, and help us maintain a transparent knowledge base.
• Development Contribution: Contribute to infrastructure development tasks and participate in technical demos to showcase your work.
• Shadow and Respond: Shadow on-call rotations and assist in troubleshooting efforts to learn incident response protocols.
• Observability Support: Learn to maintain and use observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing) to help the team track platform SLOs and availability.

What you need to be successful

Background and Skills:

• Strong foundational backend skills, with a preference for Kotlin or Java, and a willingness to adapt to the language best suited for the task.
• Exposure to data storage solutions such as PostgreSQL, RDS, or S3.
• Basic knowledge of containers (Docker) and an eagerness to learn Kubernetes.
• Exposure to infrastructure as code concepts (Terraform or similar).
• Interest in learning CI/CD pipelines and modern automation tools.
• Understanding of testing pyramids and experience writing unit and integration tests.
• Familiarity with at least one observability/monitoring tool (e.g., DataDog, Prometheus, or Grafana).

Nice to have:

• Working experience in scale-ups within platform teams.

Traits:

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams.
• You enjoy taking tasks from start to finish and keeping the team updated on your progress.
• A keen interest in understanding how to build high-quality, scalable, and secure infrastructure.
• Eagerness to learn and contribute to building platforms as products.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving, a desire to learn, and an appreciation for clean code.

What’s in it for you:

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors.
• Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation.
• Come together with your team in the office for a dedicated day of teamwork each week, plus another day of your choice, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work the rest of the time.
• As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.
• Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
• A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies - all while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, life experiences and backgrounds.