Lead Backend Engineer - Memberships

You will work in the Grow & Engage domain. This is the heart of the customer experience ranging from the acquisition and signup to our premium membership tiers and the daily engagement of our users. You will work in teams delivering the newest and most innovative features serving our customers in the best way possible.

As a Lead Backend Engineer at N26, you will be encouraged to embrace the latest technologies and frameworks to solve customer-centric, complex, and engaging problems on a daily basis.

• Manage product technical roadmaps and dependencies to minimize technical debt
• You will champion knowledge sharing, cultivate learning and avoid knowledge silos in the team
• Drive the team's build-it-ship-it attitude's by demonstrating healthy engineering practices, writing clean, well-tested, and well-refactored code with the team, and shipping it into production as often as possible
• Demonstrate behaviors that encourage the DevSecOps culture and the pragmatic N26 engineering attitude
• Lead initiatives to improve our company-wide engineering culture and discover ways to multiply the effectiveness of the team and the organization
• Be involved in recruitment and employer brand projects to help make our engineering team stronger

• 5+ years of experience in building digital products in Java or/and Kotlin
• Experience architecting and developing complex systems for CD in a cloud-based environment
• Experience leading developers, tech mentoring and working with cross-functional teams
• You are familiar with and enjoy working in Agile technical setup (e.g. Scrum, CI/CD, DevOps, Cloud)
• You have full professional proficiency in English and good communication skills
• Experience with AWS and/or Kubernetes is a plus

• Experience architecting and developing complex systems for CD in a cloud-based environment
• Experience with modern engineering practices such as clean code, TDD, refactoring
• Previous experience leading an engineering team as a servant-leader 
• Language Skills: full professional proficiency in English

• A love of learning and love of helping others to learn and grow
• A passion for building a diverse and inclusive environment
• A sense of independence and an ability to establish structures or processes to adapt to a constantly evolving domain and environment
• A passion for tech with very close collaboration with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• 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. 
• Come together with your team in the office for a dedicated day of teamwork each week, plus another day of your choice, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work the rest of the time. Some roles may require additional in-office presence.
• 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, life experiences and family statuses. 
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.

N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it’s how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use.

We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do. 

We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.

Sounds good? Apply now for this position.

Equal Opportunities:

We recognize that our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring to our workforce. We strive to build talented and diverse teams to drive our business success and empower our people to reach their full potential.

We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, neurodiversities, and ages. We're committed to creating an inclusive workspace where everyone feels valued and respected, free from harassment and discrimination. If there's anything you need to make the application process work for you, please let us know. 

Visit our website to learn more about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at N26.