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Backend Engineer - Investments & Savings
Department:Tech - Investments
Location:Berlin, Barcelona
About The Opportunity
Hi, I'm Oussama Salimi, the Engineering Manager at N26, and I am looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Investments team here at N26.Why is this role exciting and why should you apply?
- Democratize wealth: You will build a secure, real-time trading platform powering everything from Crypto and Stocks to ETFs and Managed Funds.
- High-stakes engineering: Operate at the thrilling intersection of high-speed trading and strict financial regulation where markets move fast.
- True autonomy: You are an active partner in shaping the product, not just a ticket taker. We trust you to be the owner of the delivery.
- Get Stuff Done Days (GSDD): Every six weeks, take two days of dedicated innovation time to explore new tech stacks, fix nagging bugs, or prototype outside the roadmap.
In This Role, You Will:
- Write high-quality, performant code (primarily Kotlin) and navigate the codebase fluently.
- Handle deployment, bug fixing, and incident handling with a high level of independence, taking features from concept to production.
- Act as a sparring partner for Product Managers during Product Discovery, ensuring technical decisions support the user experience.
- Question the status quo by asking "why are we building this?" and "is there a simpler way?"
- Identify knowledge gaps and technical problems, taking active ownership to address them without waiting to be told.
- Share your learnings from GSDD projects with the wider team, turning individual curiosity into collective knowledge.
- There will be a lot more too, this is a role that will require a lot of flexibility.
What you need to be successful:
- Proven experience as a Software Engineer taking features from concept to production with minimal supervision.
- A track record of thriving in dynamic environments where requirements evolve rapidly.
- A growth mindset: you treat feedback as a tool for engineering excellence and have a specific plan for your own learning.
- An "evidence over opinion" approach: you couple every critique of a problem with a practical proposal for its solution.
- Strong proficiency in backend development, with Kotlin being our default for new services.
- Experience working with Distributed Microservices and Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka).
- Good understanding of cloud infrastructure and containerization (AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker).
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, ELK/OpenSearch).
- Resilience and proactive communication: you know how to navigate unresponsive stakeholders and unblock yourself.
- Constructive dissatisfaction: you are a "System Improver" who proactively fixes broken processes.
Interview Process And What To Expect:
- Initial Recruiter Screen
- Codility Test
- Pair Coding
- Systems Design
- Behavioural Interview
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.
- 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 family statuses.
- A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.