Senior Software Engineer API & Connectors

A pioneer and market leader in Embedded Banking Powens Group is committed to supporting financial players in designing services and payment experiences that users love.

Headquartered in Barcelona and Paris Powens Group is at the forefront of the Banking-as-a-Service and Open Finance movements in Europe and Latin America. Our mission is to offer banking technology as a service to any company aiming to enhance user experience and operational efficiency. We achieve this through our API-based regulated solutions covering Bank accounts Payment solutions Open Banking / Finance and more.

Powens Group is a rapidly growing fintech regulated in France and Spain allowing operations in all European countries and in Mexico.

We are a trusted partner to the top financial industry players and software editors and we have achieved this by scouting the best talents. Joining Powens Group means being a part of an inclusive multicultural and international team of over 130 employees.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will join our Cross-Connectors squad which is responsible for building and maintaining the core APIs and connectors that aggregate financial data from a wide range of financial institutions. You will play a critical role in designing robust backend systems ensuring scalability performance and reliability across our data aggregation platform.

What will be your responsibilities

- Design implement and maintain APIs and secure connectors to financial institutions enabling high-quality data aggregation and processing.

- Develop robust scalable backend services using Python and/or Go following modern software engineering best practices.

- Work closely with the product team to understand client needs and translate them into technical solutions that drive business value.

- Collaborate with the DevOps and infrastructure teams to deploy monitor and troubleshoot production systems.

- Ensure high standards of code quality security performance and observability across all projects.

- Contribute to architectural discussions and continuously improve our engineering practices and development workflows.

- Take ownership of features and services from design through deployment and support in production.

What do we expect from you

- Solid experience in backend development with proficiency in Python.

- Strong understanding of software engineering principles clean architecture and design patterns.

- Proven experience in designing and maintaining APIs and integrating with third-party services.

- Good knowledge of relational databases and some exposure to NoSQL solutions. You should be comfortable writing efficient queries understanding indexing and using ORMs like SQLAlchemy (Python) in a production environment.

- Experience working with cloud platforms particularly AWS (e.g. Lambda S3 IAM EC2 etc.).

- Good understanding and hands-on experience with observability tools (logging metrics alerting).

- Comfortable working in a collaborative team environment with CI/CD practices and agile methodologies.

- Excellent problem-solving skills with a pragmatic mindset and the ability to make trade-offs in real-world scenarios.

What makes you stand out

- Experience with financial data banking APIs or open banking protocols (e.g. PSD2).

- Experience building API services in Golang

- Proficiency with and an eagerness to leverage AI technologies.

- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code and DevOps tooling (Terraform Docker Kubernetes).

- Familiarity with security best practices in API development and data handling.

Why join Powens

Impact: Your work will directly shape the backbone of how financial data is accessed and delivered to clients.

Growth: Work with cutting-edge technologies in a rapidly evolving domain with a team that encourages learning and innovation.

Culture: Join a people-first company that values trust transparency and ownership.

Hiring process

- HR Interview.
- First technical meet.
- Second technical meet.
- Meet at the office.

Salary range 50-60k

Women are under-represented in the fintech industry. To women candidates please dare to take your rightful place!

Powens Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer we foster an inclusive and diverse working environment without any form of discrimination based on race color religion sex national origin age disability.. If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process please let us know to accommodate!