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About the Role

Join the European Payments Initiative (EPI) to help build Wero, a digital wallet designed to simplify payments across Europe. You will contribute to building reliable and scalable payment services, working in a remote-first environment with significant ownership and influence.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver backend features end to end, from API design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
• Lead the architecture and evolution of EPI’s cloud-based microservices, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and alignment with mobile and business needs.
• Define and uphold high code quality standards, applying best practices for maintainable and testable services.
• Support frontend engineers with backend expertise, guidance on API usage, data contracts, and performance considerations.
• Drive backend platform decisions with a clear understanding of current product requirements and future growth.
• Balance platform consistency with web-specific needs, making pragmatic technical trade-offs.
• Improve backend reliability, developer experience, and delivery speed for mobile and platform teams.
• Collaborate with product management, design, frontend, QA, and other backend teams to ensure aligned and efficient delivery.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in software development, including at least 5 years of backend development.
• Proven experience building scalable system architectures, using modern design patterns and REST API design, with a commitment to clear technical documentation.
• Ability to recognise and implement effective automated tests at appropriate levels.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of features, with the ability to collaborate across teams with minimal guidance.
• Experience with frontend technologies and willingness to contribute to frontend tasks would be a plus.
• Experience designing and implementing Backend-for-Frontend services, or familiarity with frontend concerns such as API contracts, performance, and client-specific requirements, would be a plus.

Skills

• Kotlin
• Ktor
• MongoDB
• OpenAPI
• Docker
• DataDog
• Event Sourcing
• Kubernetes
• Kotest
• Yarn
• React
• Next.js
• MUI
• TypeScript
• Jest
• Playwright

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Remote-first
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 7+ years of professional experience in software development
• 5+ years of backend development experience

Education Level

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field is preferred.

Benefits

• Remote-first culture with quarterly and annual all-staff in-person meetups
• Possibility to work from another EU country for up to 3 months per year
• Competitive compensation package, featuring salary, performance-based bonus
• Thoughtfully designed, high-quality benefits programme
• Learning & development budget: €5,000 training budget per year

About the Company

• The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is changing the way Europe pays with Wero, a digital wallet designed to make payments easier, clearer, and more secure.
• Wero is backed by 16 major banks and the two largest European acquirers, building a brand new, proudly European payment system.
• EPI embraces a remote-first culture, enabling teams to work remotely from their country of residence.

Equal Opportunity

• EPI offers the same job opportunities to all, without distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age.
• EPI promotes the development of an inclusive work environment that mirrors the diversity of the clients our product is serving.