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About the Role
We are seeking a talented Lead Engineer to join our expanding teams and evolve our product, powered by a microservice architecture predominantly written in Java and Kotlin, using Spring Boot. Our cross-functional teams are passionate about collaboration and sharing knowledge, as well as working with a high degree of autonomy. As a Lead Engineer at N26, you will be encouraged to embrace the latest technological updates and given a platform to work on complex, interesting problems on a daily basis.
Responsibilities
- Directly impact your team’s tech scope by managing product technical roadmaps and dependencies to minimise technical debt.
- Design, develop, and maintain high-availability, high-performance web applications.
- Drive the team's build-it-ship-it attitude by demonstrating healthy engineering practices and shipping code into production frequently.
- Implement new features and integrations with foundational models and automation systems.
- Optimize, measure and monitor distributed systems to ensure seamless, continuous software delivery.
- Role model engineering excellence through code reviews, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing.
- Lead initiatives to improve company-wide engineering culture and multiply team and organizational effectiveness.
- Be involved in recruitment and employer brand projects.
Requirements
- A firm grasp of object-oriented programming, distributed systems principles and methodologies like DDD using architecture design patterns like Hexagonal, Event-Driven and Microservices.
- A strong track record of using engineering best practices, including Clean Code, TDD/BDD, and deep observability.
- Proven experience in critically using AI coding agents to accelerate delivery without compromising code integrity or security.
- 5+ years of experience in building complex distributed systems in Java or/and Kotlin and Springboot/Spring AI.
- Solid experience designing and implementing robust REST APIs.
- Professional experience with PostgreSQL (performance and scalability).
- Professional experience with a "DevOps mindset" regarding CI/CD pipelines.
- Guide a team of mid and senior engineers to milestone delivery by unblocking and mentoring.
- Strong collaborative spirit with a commitment to knowledge sharing and mutual growth.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- A sense of independence and an ability to establish structures or processes to adapt to a constantly evolving domain and environment.
Skills
- Java
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- Spring AI
- REST APIs
- PostgreSQL
- CI/CD
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Generative AI frameworks
- Langchain
- RAG pipelines
- Clean Code
- TDD/BDD
- AI coding agents
Location
- Berlin
- Vienna
- Barcelona
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Lead Engineer
- 5+ years of experience
Benefits
- Competitive personal development budget
- Work-from-home budget
- Discounts for fitness, wellness, language apps, and public transportation
- Free Premium subscription on personal N26 bank account
- Subscriptions for friends and family
- An additional day of annual leave for each year of service
- Relocation package with visa support
About the Company
- N26 has reimagined banking for today's digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it's how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use. We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings.
- We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.
Equal Opportunity
- We recognize that our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring to our workforce. We strive to build talented and diverse teams to drive our business success and empower our people to reach their full potential. We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, neurodiversities, and ages.
- If there's anything you need to make the application process work for you, please let us know by reaching out to candidate.exp@n26.com.