Backend Engineer - Investments & Savings
Skills
Location
You must be live (or willing to live) in: Berlin, Germany
Languages
Fluent English
Job Description
We're looking for a skilled Backend Engineer – Investments & Savings to build secure, real-time trading platforms spanning Crypto, Stocks, ETFs, and Managed Funds, driving engineering excellence in a fast-paced financial environment.
🎯 Responsibilities
- Write high-quality, performant code (primarily Kotlin) and maintain deep familiarity with the codebase.
- Handle deployment, bug fixing, and incident management independently, bringing features from concept to production.
- Collaborate with Product Managers during Product Discovery to ensure technical feasibility enhances user experience.
- Challenge the status quo by evaluating reasons and seeking simplicity in solutions.
- Identify and resolve knowledge gaps and technical issues proactively.
- Share insights and learnings from innovation initiatives with the team.
- Adapt to a dynamic environment with evolving requirements and responsibilities.
🛠️ Requirements
- Proven experience as a Software Engineer delivering features to production with minimal supervision.
- Success working in fast-changing environments where requirements may evolve quickly.
- A growth mindset with openness to feedback and a plan for continuous learning.
- Evidence-based approach to problem-solving, always pairing critiques with actionable solutions.
- Strong skills in backend development; Kotlin is used for new services.
- Experience with Distributed Microservices and Event-Driven Architectures (e.g., Kafka).
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and containerization (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker).
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog and ELK/OpenSearch.
- Resilience, proactive communication, and the ability to remove blockers independently.
- System improvement orientation, proactively addressing inefficient processes.
🔎 Interview Process
- Initial recruiter screen
- Online coding test (Codility)
- Pair coding session
- Systems design interview
- Behavioral interview
🤗 We offer
- Opportunities for rapid career growth in a high-impact domain.
- Personal development and work-from-home budgets.
- Discounts on fitness, wellness memberships, and language learning apps.
- Public transportation support.
- Premium account access for you and your friends/family.
- One additional annual leave day for each year of service.
- High autonomy and access to the latest tech alongside a diverse, collaborative team.
- Relocation package and visa support if needed.
Benefits and perks
- +Get Stuff Done Days
- +Career development
- +Personalized Onboarding
Location
Carrer de l'Escar, 26, 08039 Barcelona, Spain