Senior Backend Developer DevOps

Company

We are a Berlin-based B2C fintech operating in stealth founded by two repeat founders (YC alum exit) with prior 10 year careers in investment banking and strategy consulting respectively. We recently raised investment to assemble a 15 people exceptionally strong core team.

Our culture is built on ownership and clarity. We align with you on vision then set KPIs and required resources togetherand then trust your drive and expertise.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Backend Developer / DevOps engineer you will work alongside our CTO on building and evolving our fintech product. The core architecture is in place providing a solid foundation to build upon as we set up infrastructure establish operational practices refine our systems and ship to production. Youll be involved from infrastructure creation through feature development with significant autonomy to shape how we build deploy and scale.

Tasks

What you will work on on daily basis

• Setting up and managing cloud infrastructure for production deployment
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
• Implementing monitoring logging and observability systems
• Developing backend features and APIs within our microservices architecture
• Optimizing system performance reliability and scalability
• Collaborating on technical decisions and architecture evolution
• Ensuring code quality security and operational best practices

Requirements

Hard Requirements

• Event-Driven Architecture Mastery: Deep hands-on experience designing and implementing event-driven systems with messaging patterns (Kafka RabbitMQ or GCP Pub/Sub). You understand event sourcing saga patterns eventual consistency and can articulate trade-offs.
• Microservices Architecture: Proven track record building deploying and scaling microservice-based systems in production. You know when to split services how to handle distributed transactions and how to avoid common microservices pitfalls.
• Expertise: Strong proficiency in (Express NestJS or similar) for building high-performance backend services. Understanding of async patterns streams and performance optimization is essential.
• GCP Hands-On Experience: Real production experience with GCPnot just familiarity. Youve worked with GKE/Cloud Run Cloud Functions Pub/Sub Cloud Storage Cloud SQL/Firestore and can navigate the GCP ecosystem confidently.

Additional Technical Skills

• Extensive experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Strong foundation in RESTful API design
• Proficiency with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions Cloud Build Jenkins or similar)
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or similar tools
• Deep understanding of observability: structured logging distributed tracing metrics and alerting
• Knowledge of API security authentication/authorization (OAuth 2.0 JWT) and data protection

Mindset & Approach

• 01 Production Experience: Youve been through production launches before and know what it takessetting up infrastructure handling edge cases ensuring reliability and managing the inevitable surprises.
• Pragmatic Perfectionism: You balance technical excellence with business velocityyou know when to refactor and when to ship quickly.
• Ownership Mentality: Youre proactive resourceful and accountable for your workyou dont wait to be told what to do.
• Team Player: You collaborate well with others give and receive feedback gracefully and elevate those around you
• Systems Thinking: You understand how components interact design for reliability and maintainability and think beyond your immediate feature.
• Clear Communication: You can explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders document your work and participate constructively in technical discussions.
• Continuous Learner: You stay current with industry trends experiment with new technologies and are energized by technical challenges.

Benefits

Compensation & How We Work

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience (80k-110k depending on seniority)
• On-site in Berlin-Mitte with flexible remote work as you see fit (typically 3-4 days in office flexible on specific days)
• High autonomy low politics fast decision-makingwe value impact over process
• Top-tier equipmentwhatever tools you need to do your best work

Were an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If youre excited about the role but dont meet 100% of the criteria wed still love to hear from youparticularly if you bring unique perspectives or experiences that would strengthen our team.