About the Role
Bank Core runs the systems at the heart of N26, including accounts, ledgers, and core banking logic. Engineers joining now will shape decisions across the entire company, tackling deep domain problems with direct impact. Our services use Kotlin on Spring Boot, deployed on Kubernetes, communicating over Kafka, backed by Postgres, and running on AWS. We utilize agentic coding, requiring engineers to question, review, and own the results.
Responsibilities
- Own features end to end on systems that move real money for millions of customers
- Gain deep understanding of the banking domain (payments, ledgers, rules) to refine product development
- Drive personal priorities within a cross-functional team and proactively resolve blockers
- Surface issues early with proposed solutions
- Ship incremental improvements and share findings, including at Get Stuff Done Days (GSDD)
Requirements
- Solid grasp of microservice architecture
- Comfortable with relational databases, Postgres preferred
- Experience operating in a modern cloud environment, ideally AWS and Kubernetes
- Full professional proficiency in English
- Event-driven systems with Kafka
- Payments, ledgers, or other banking/fintech domain experience
Skills
- Microservice architecture
- Relational databases
- Postgres
- Cloud environments
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- English proficiency
- Event-driven systems
- Kafka
- Payments domain
- Ledgers domain
- Fintech domain
Location
- Berlin
- Vienna
- Barcelona
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Benefits
- Competitive personal development budget
- Work from home budget
- Discounts to fitness & wellness memberships
- Discounts for language apps
- Discounts for public transportation
- Premium subscription on personal N26 bank account
- Subscriptions for friends and family members
- Additional day of annual leave for each year of service
- High degree of autonomy
- Access to cutting edge technologies
- Relocation package
- Visa support
About the Company
- N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world, using technology and design to build a global banking platform.
- The company has eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings.
- N26 is headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and has a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.
Equal Opportunity
- N26 believes its strength lies in its people and the varied perspectives they bring, striving to build diverse teams that drive innovation and business success.
- The company actively seeks talent from all backgrounds and welcomes applications from all genders, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities, neurodiversities, and ages.
- N26 is committed to providing an excellent and accessible candidate experience and offers accommodations for candidates who require them.
