Backend Engineer – Core Systems (m/f/d)

• 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)

What you need to be successful

• Skills :
• 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

Who you are

• Relentlessly curious - you want to learn new domains like payments, ledgers, and banking from the ground up
• Product-driven - you understand what you're building and push back when it doesn't add up
• Self-starting - you unblock yourself
• You surface issues early and bring solutions, never quietly route around them
• You favor steady, incremental improvement You share knowledge freely and learn from the people around you You write well-tested code and treat security as part of the job, not an afterthought You give and receive open, direct, timely feedback

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, experiences, and backgrounds.