Backend Engineer - Customer Identity

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About The Opportunity

We’re looking for 2 talented Backend Engineers to join our Customer Identity segment – the team behind N26’s customer verification products. You’ll help build solutions that are frictionless for users, flexible, and highly secure, ensuring we verify our customers’ identities with confidence while maintaining the trust of our regulators as we scale.

You’ll work in a cross-functional team that values collaboration, knowledge sharing, and autonomy. At N26, we encourage our engineers to stay curious, explore the latest technologies, and tackle complex, meaningful challenges every day.

This is a Hybrid role based in Barcelona or Berlin.

In This Role, You Will

• Collaborate closely with your Tech Lead on architecting new features and seeing them through to completion.
• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software in a thriving environment.
• Have opportunities to mentor junior members in the team by relentlessly guarding code quality through pull requests and helping them when they have questions.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends in technology and you are not afraid to propose some findings during our Get Stuff Done Days.
• Work within your cross-functional team to uphold the highest technical standards right across the product.

What You Need To Be Successful

• Experience in developing software using a JVM language and Spring Boot in large-scale production systems (note: experience of Kotlin would be a plus)
• Sound understanding of microservice architecture
• Knowledge of both relational and non-relational databases, preferably Postgres
• Appreciation of working in a modern cloud architecture, preferably with AWS
• Full professional proficiency in English

Traits

• Strong bias for action, and getting things done
• Ongoing appreciation and consideration for security
• Motivation to write code which is well-tested and well-documented
• Give and receive open, direct and timely feedback

What’s In It For You

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors