Staff Backend Engineer, BUX
1-2 days a week in office
Stocks, crypto & ETF brokerage app
Be an early applicant
Stocks, crypto & ETF brokerage app
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
1-2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
BUX's mission is to make investing easy and affordable for all.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent command of Git and collaborative workflows (e.g., GitFlow)
- Excellent knowledge of core system-design concepts and common microservices design trade-offs
- Ability to own, be responsible and accountable for the success of projects where own direct code contribution is combined with mentoring of less experienced colleagues
- Excellent command of Java, Kotlin and the Spring framework ecosystem
- Experience working with transactional Kafka and event-sourcing architectures
- A solid understanding and working knowledge of GCP (with focus on Kubernetes)
- You take initiative and push hard to turn ideas into real results
- You regularly use GenAI tools, stay up to date with new ones, and encourage the team to use them to speed up delivery and improve how everyone works
- A keen eye for detail while always keeping the big picture in mind
- An Agile mindset and working knowledge of the Scrum framework
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our BUX team based in Amsterdam
- Our engineering team sits at the heart of the company. We have a well-rounded team that cares about building great products that matter. You’ll be part of a modern fintech company where you can try things, break things, fix them, and learn fast
- Your work is visible, your input matters, and you help shape both the product and how we build it. We stay close to what’s happening in the world of investing and fintech, and we share what we learn. It’s a place where you can stretch your skills, contribute to something real, and grow alongside people who take their craft seriously and enjoy building things together
- In this role, you'll go beyond writing excellent code; you'll shape our technical direction, elevate our engineering practices, and mentor engineers across the organisation to help the company deliver the next iterations of our product, the BUX App
- To do this, you will have the help of other very experienced colleagues, the freedom to brainstorm and suggest new ideas, and the time to execute those ideas in a high-quality way
- As a Staff Backend Engineer, your job is to lead from the front. This could mean:
- Take project requirements, design solutions, and document them in RFCs (Request for Comments)
- Follow, learn, apply, and advocate for modern software development practices across the team and organisation
- Analyse technical challenges (e.g., scalability), raise awareness of technical debt, and proactively address system issues before they impact users
- Help grow the technical skills of less experienced colleagues and collaborate across teams on planning and execution of broader impact projects
- Discuss technical solutions with Product Owners, support colleagues with complex problems, and diagnose and resolve live user issues or monitoring alerts in a thought-out, planned, and organised manner
- Why join BUX as a Staff Backend Engineer?
- You will have space to share your ideas and be encouraged to express your voice
- You will be one of the most skilled technical people in the room, with the authority to make the decision
- You will be challenged to work with real-time data and develop APIs that can provide a smooth user experience through high-quality, high-performance code
- You will have the freedom to evaluate new tools that can be used to increase productivity, code readability, and maintainability
- Lastly, the business domain is interesting. You will learn how the financial system works on the inside
Application process
- We usually respond within three days
Our take
Recent innovations in banking and apps have opened the door for the average consumer to engage in a new set of financial services. BUX facilitates this as Europe’s fastest growing neobroker.
While the application has not reached the omnipresent level of market leaders like Robinhood, BUX is the first and only business to have built a full-stack system of its own, giving it an ability to adapt and scale in a way competitors cannot. Keeping up with the evolving investment space, the company launched BUX Crypto in 2022, granting its thousands of users access to trading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
Also in 2022, the company purchased the retail arm of neobroker Ninety Nine, with all its existing retail customers moving over to BUX. This has significantly bolstered its Spanish marketshare, as it moves ahead with a strategy to double down on its flagship application and help clients build long-term wealth moving into the future. The sale of BUX's Cyprus arm to Coinbase in 2024 will allow BUX to hone in on market presence and product capabilities.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$80m
LATE VC
Jun 2019
$8.9m
LATE VC
Total funding: $112m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere in the world for one month per year
- Unlimited 1-on-1 access to on-demand coaching and mindfulness consultations with psychologists through OpenUp
- A supportive environment that encourages continuous learning and development
- Dedicated training budget for to use towards improving current skills or learning something entirely new
- Celebrations - we make sure to do plenty of fun stuff together, like dinner and drinks or activities like flyboarding, rafting and off-road jeep driving
Company HQ
Plantage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Yorick Naeff
(CEO & Co-Founder)Started at ING as a Management trainee where he became a Senior Manager after only three years. Worked as COO at Bux for 5 years before becoming UK CEO and then CEO of the entire organisation in 2021.
Egbert Pronk
(CFO & Co-Founder)Worked in options trading for over a decade, eventually becoming Head of Trading for Van der Moolen. After that, Egbert worked as CFO for a large consumer baked goods brand based in the Netherlands.
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