Talon.One, an Adyen company, is the most powerful incentives engine that unifies loyalty, personalized promotions and offer management into a single platform.
Built for enterprise scale and security, Talon.One helps businesses design and deliver incentives that drive real customer behavior.
Today, over 300 of the world’s most-loved brands including Sephora, Gymshark and Costa Coffee work with Talon.One to turn their incentives into a reliable growth engine.
ABOUT THE TEAM:
Our development team consists of specialists in frontend, backend, QA, product, and visual design. We work in small cross-functional teams that give everybody insight and hands-on experience of what everyone else is doing. Each team is self-sustained, autonomous, and responsible for a specific feature or area in our platform. We believe in strong collaboration, open communication, and mentoring to allow bi-directional growth. We are working to make Talon.One an inclusive workplace because we believe it is the right thing to do and because we want to have a positive impact on the entire tech industry.
We are currently looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our development teams. You will work closely with our product people to design the right solutions to our challenging problems while collaborating, mentoring, and supporting the other team members.
For this position, we need professionals who are already based in Berlin or willing to move to Berlin.
ONCE YOU ARE HERE YOU WILL:
- Be a crucial member in a small cross-functional team (a squad)
- Collaborate closely with Product Manager and Tech Lead during roadmap discussions
- Contribute effectively during all Scrum rituals, facilitation of process maturity increments, and engineering best practices initiatives
- Provide valuable inputs during Refinement and Solution Design sessions and be able to lead feature development independently
- Regularly participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback
- Consistently monitor the maintenance of quality standards and proactively recommend engineering or process improvements
- Offer technical/soft guidance to Junior engineers and participate in Mentorship Programs
- Participate in cross-squad (Backend Guild) brainstorming sessions and problem-solving discussions
- Propose and own technical initiatives toward performance/scale/maintenance improvements
WHAT WE NEED YOU TO BRING TO THE TABLE:
- 6+ years of previous experience as a Backend Developer with focus on Golang
- In-depth knowledge of REST API design, PostgreSQL, and Testing Techniques
- Experience building scalable, maintainable, and performant large-scale applications
- Experience designing and developing complex architectures, including monolithic and microservice architecture
- Strong tendency towards implementing modern best practices like pair-programming sessions, unit and integration tests, adaptation of AI and automation, refactoring, SOLID principles, security best practices, documentation as code, regular knowledge sharing, etc.
- Big-picture thinking; You collaborate with non-developers to clarify requirements and help plan projects, with an eye on the overall impact on the business & product
- Proactive and constructive approach to support/mentor junior members of the team
- A willingness to learn about and contribute to the whole stack is essential
- A team-first attitude; As a group, we strive to leave egos at home
- Empathy for your customers and your colleagues
ABOUT TECHNOLOGY:
- Kubernetes running on Google Cloud
- PostgreSQL
- We use Go for our API, core logic, and internal tooling
- TypeScript, React, Redux, and CSS modules for our web application
- Cypress for automated end-to-end testing
- Other odds & ends in JavaScript and shell script
- A product & engineering team, now part of Adyen, building the incentives engine behind some of the world’s biggest brands
- Adyen+, a significant monthly allowance to spend on whatever matters most to you and your wellbeing
- 28 days of paid annual leave
- €115 monthly commuting allowance when you join us in the office 3 days per week
- 25% employer contribution to your pension
- Annual all-company gathering at Adyen’s headquarters in Amsterdam, plus regional team events throughout the year
- Opportunity to connect in person at Adyen offices across 29 locations worldwide
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience as a Backend Developer focused on Golang
- In-depth knowledge of REST API design
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience building scalable applications
- Experience designing complex architectures
- Strong understanding of modern best practices
What We Do
Talon.One is building the world’s most sophisticated, API-based Promotion Engine. That means we provide the entire backend and user interface our clients need to build loyalty programs, generate coupons, track referrals, create bundles, and really any other promotion solution they can imagine — all using our rule-based engine. We believe that rewarding customers and creating incentives are an essential part of building meaningful relationships and we want to make rich, scalable promotion tools available to marketers in companies of all sizes. From our HQ in Berlin, to our offices in Boston, Birmingham and Singapore, Talon.One is made up of over 96 people from over 40 nationalities. Despite our different origins and our spread across the globe, we all have a few things in common — we love creative problem solving, we value independent thought and we want to give developers and marketers the tools they need to create promotions from scratch in a simpler, more intuitive way.
Why Work With Us
Talon.One is the first all-in-one Promotion Engine, and our technology is now the gold standard for promotion micro services. We’re strong advocates of flexibility in our product and the same is true in our working lives. We don’t believe that your job has to be the most important thing in your life. Everyone has unique reasons to feel inspired by
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