Backend Engineer – Core Systems

Requirements

• Solid grasp of microservice architecture
• Comfortable with relational databases, Postgres preferred
• Experience operating in a modern cloud environment, ideally AWS and Kubernetes
• Full professional proficiency in English

Nice to Have

• Event-driven systems with Kafka
• Payments, ledgers, or other banking/fintech domain experience

What You'll Be Doing

• Own features end to end on systems that move real money for millions of customers
• Go deep on the banking domain - payments, ledgers, and the rules beneath them - and use that understanding to question and sharpen what we build
• Drive your own priorities within a cross-functional team, and unblock yourself when you hit a wall
• Raise problems early with a proposed solution, instead of working around them
• Ship incremental improvements and share your findings - including at our Get Stuff Done Days (GSDD)

Perks and Benefits

• 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
• 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, experiences, and backgrounds
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it