About this role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Core Banking Services team and help build and scale a high-performance Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. We build and scale the high-performance, serverless API layer that empowers both internal consumers and partner banks to manage customers and their accounts.
As a pure backend engineering team, we don't build UI components. Instead, we focus entirely on engineering robust, highly available, and secure distributed services. The team owns the end-to-end lifecycle of core banking entities, including:
- Identity & Compliance: Automated customer onboarding and complex KYC workflows.
- Ledger & Accounts: Scalable deposit account management systems.
- Reporting: High-throughput data processing for reporting obligations, observability, and account statement generation.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain the BaaS API services, including REST API and event-driven systems with a serverless architecture that other teams and partners depend on, making sure they're reliable and accurate.
- Help shape how we solve problems: contribute ideas on how things should be built, weigh in on important decisions, and make sure we're building things the right way for the long term.
- Keep our CI/CD processes healthy: spot when things are slow or breaking, and take action to make the team's day-to-day smoother and faster.
- Drive architectural decisions and solution design within your domain, including writing technical solution designs, participating in threat modeling workshops, and collaborating cross-team on upstream/downstream dependencies.
- Take ownership of production reliability by participating in an On-Call rotation, leading incident investigations, identifying root causes, and driving hotfixes, as the team does with live incidents on the platform.
- Work with external partners and services we connect to, and take ownership when something on their side needs following up or resolving.
- Keep our build, testing, and release processes healthy: spot when things are slow or breaking, and take action to make the team's day-to-day smoother and faster.
Must have:
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience as a backend engineer, with at least 2 years of NodeJs/TypeScript experience.
- Highly responsible for working with critical high-core value systems for the company.
- Solid experience with AWS Serverless services - Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, EventBridge, DynamoDB, S3.
- Solid understanding and practical application of design patterns
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform & CDK).
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript testing practices (unit, integration, system testing).
- Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka)
- Familiarity with RESTful API design and OpenAPI specifications.
Soft skills:
- Excellent communication skills. Ability to articulate challenges and solutions clearly.
- Proven team player. Collaborates well with others and supports shared goals.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities; able to design robust solutions and analyze production issues.
- Proactiveness in supporting teammates and driving technical improvements.
- Fluency in English.
Good to have:
- Experience working in a monorepo setup (pnpm workspaces or similar).
- Experience with Relational Databases (MySQL) and an ORM such as Prisma.
- Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB or similar)
- German-language skills are a plus but not mandatory.
We offer*:
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings
- Other location-specific benefits
*not applicable for freelancers