Lead Backend Engineer - Conversational Banking
N26Mobile Banking company
Berlin, GermanyLead
Coatue Management
Dragoneer Investment Group
Tencent
Valar Ventures
Third Point Ventures
Allianz X
Software EngineeringNew
About the role
TL;DR
Lead backend engineer to design, build, and scale high-availability microservices with a focus on AI integration.
- •Join N26's Intelligent team as a Lead Backend Engineer to evolve our product, powered by a microservice architecture predominantly written in Java and Kotlin, using Spring Boot.
- •You will work in cross-functional teams passionate about collaboration, knowledge sharing, and autonomy.
- •Key Responsibilities Directly impact your team’s tech scope, managing product technical roadmaps and dependencies.
- •Design, develop, and maintain high-availability, high-performance web applications.
- •Foster tech-solid delivery through healthy engineering practices and shipping code frequently.
- •Integrate AI features and foundational models to empower back-office teams.
- •Optimize, measure, and monitor distributed systems for seamless software delivery.
- •Requirements 5+ years of experience building complex distributed systems in Java or/and Kotlin with Spring Boot/Spring AI.
- •Firm grasp of object-oriented programming, distributed systems principles, and design patterns (Hexagonal, Event-Driven, Microservices).
- •Proven experience using AI coding agents to accelerate delivery.
- •Strong track record of using engineering best practices like Clean Code, TDD/BDD, and deep observability.
Required skills
JavaKotlinMicroservicesREST APIPostgreSQLMentoring
Nice-to-have skills
AWSKubernetesPythonLangChain
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Competitive personal development budget, Work-from-home budget, Discounts for fitness, wellness, language apps, and public transportation, Free Premium subscription on N26 bank account, Subscriptions for friends and family, Additional day of annual leave for each year of service, Relocation package with visa support
Tech stack
JavaKotlinREST APIPostgreSQLAWSKubernetesPythonLangChain
