Remote Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Backend Engineer at finmid, where you will build the core of their products, services, and APIs. You will work with a team of highly motivated engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and have opportunities to mentor junior engineers and help hire new talent. The role requires a creative mindset, strong communication skills, and experience in JVM languages, particularly Kotlin.

Requirements

• You have a creative mindset
• You take responsibility for results and are ready to go the extra mile to help the team
• The ability to find seamlessly simple and pragmatic solutions to complex problems
• Architect systems and services with a commitment to high-quality code standards. We work mostly in JVM languages, focusing on Kotlin
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, and a history of working effectively with your cross-functional team and other stakeholders
• A desire to perform and grow as an engineer

Responsibilities

• Join the team of highly motivated, pragmatic engineers
• Impact by solving challenges in the next-gen financial products
• Architect, design, and develop products from scratch
• Embrace innovative concepts and adopt cutting-edge technologies
• Integrate third-party vendor solutions into backend systems
• Participate in pair- and mob-programming sessions with fellow engineers
• Share knowledge and conduct talks at internal meet-ups
• Collaborate with product designers, business operations, and founders to address challenges and strategically plan for the future
• Demonstrate DevOps mindset and ownership over CI/CD infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with financial or payment technologies
• Good understanding and practical experience in micro-services environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, etc.)
• Experience with designing and maintaining public APIs
• Experience implementing and designing event-sourced or event-streaming systems (e.g. Kafka, Pulsar)
• Enjoy building a new team or product and helping make a great team environment
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment
• Experience working with remote teams

Benefits

• We see ourselves as ‘distributed first’ but also have a beautiful office in Berlin where you can work
• We are flexible and cover whatever you need to be as productive as possible (e.g. MacOS, IntelliJ IDEA)
• Home office stipend
• 30 days time off
• Meaningful equity
• Open-minded and transparent culture that includes regular get-together meetings (e.g. All Hands, Brown Bag Lunch, Offsite)