Your Mission
Born in the heart of Berlins fintech hub Ratepay has passionately crafted tomorrows payment solutions for over a decade. Today were proud to be Europes leading white-label Buy Now Pay Later provider.
Our success comes from teamwork openness and continuous improvement. We value shared goals over egos fostering a culture of courage commitment and warmth. Our dedicated team of 200 professionals powers the entire payment value chain - from integration to AI-driven risk management and dunning delivering tailored payment solutions for businesses across Germany Austria Switzerland and beyond.
As a Lead Software Engineer (m/f/d) at Ratepay you will make a significant contribution to our shared mission of building and developing secure and simple payment solutions for the online retail market which still continues to grow.
Key Responsibilities:- Lead the development operation and continuous improvement of scalable software systems.
- Take on a prominent role in your team and be the initiator and driver of projectsinitiativesand improvements.
- Integrate internal and external APIs in a microservices architecture ensuring system interoperability.
- Activelyparticipatein the agile development process collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver features.
- Support and groom the entire engineering team fostering growth knowledge sharing and collaboration through methods like pair programming and code reviews.
- Ensure adherence to best practices in software development tomaintainhigh code quality.
- Collaborate with the team and the Principal Engineer to make key technical decisions.
- Ensure alignment between business objectives and technical implementation.
Thats What You Bring Along
- At least 10 years of professional working experience in JVM-based backend development.
- Hands-onexpertisein Software Engineering usingJava Spring/SpringBootKotlinGit Maven DockerJenkinsand solid experience with cloud technologies (AWS).
- Experience in leading and driving initiatives and projects.
- Very goodconceptual knowledge about RESTful APIs microservices event-driven architecture (Apache Kafka) OAuth (Auth0) and testing.
- Involvement in every step of the software lifecycle andinternalisationof the DevOps approach (you build it you run it).
- Self-organisedwork as well as collaboration within the team and with other teams atRatepayto deliver high value to our stakeholders and merchants.
- Very goodEnglish language skills.
Due to our hybrid work model we are looking for candidates based in or near Berlin. Unfortunately we are currently unable to support visa or relocation processes.
Thats How Working With Us Will Be
Were more than just a workplace were a vibrant community of innovators collaborators and visionaries who love what we do and reward those who work with us. Here your career isnt just a job. Its an opportunity to thrive learn and make a difference. Take a look at these great personalised benefits of working at Ratepay. On a monthly basis you can choose between mobility fitness food training and much more.
- Flexible working hours
- Work remotely (EU for up to 4 weeks a year)
- 28 vacation days per annum.
- Financial security includingpension plan
- Monthly lunches
- Learning and development (Access to various self-development platforms such as language learning and skills enhancement
- Gym membershipor publictransportallowance
- Ratepay community: Our office has a floor which is dog-friendly. So bring your pawsome pet to work when needed.
Equal Opportunities & Diversity
We value our diversity and welcome everyone to our team. Regardless of ethnic and social background religious beliefs worldview gender sexual orientation physical and mental limitations age marital status educational background and nationality. With over 200 employees and 40 different nationalities we take our values seriously. These include ownership growth integrity collaboration customer centricity and inclusion.
About us
We dare to design the future of payments. Ratepay is energy and diversity and: custom-made state-of-the-art payment solutions. Established in 2009 we were a fintech before the word fintech even existed. Today we are the number one white-label Buy Now Pay Later payments provider in Europe handling over 2.5M transactions per month and were constantly growing.
We are where we are because we work together as one team. Because we got the freedom to execute ideas. And above everything: because we never stop improving. Here it is all about shared goals not about the big ego. We are dedicated pros (more than 250 of them) not cons. We embrace being courageous committed and decisive warm-hearted and having a will to win.
We have our origin in the heart of the payment scene and cover the whole value chain from integration support to the dunning process with a core of AI-based risk management. With us you can integrate direct debit instalments and other words: the favourite payment methods in Germany Austria and Switzerland (the Dutch like it too). Located in the middle of Europes fintech metropolis (Berlin) we are proud to work with major partners such as Eurowings Ebay and About You and hundreds more.