Staff Backend Engineer, Neonomics

• You're a hands-on senior who writes great Java code and elevates the code quality around them
• Fundamentals Matter: You have a drive to truly understand the systems you build, with a solid grasp of basic paradigms, such as concurrency and service-to-service communication, to design scalable, efficient solutions.
• Architect at Heart: You are a backend engineer with a deep understanding of architectural design, capable of weighing trade-offs to ensure maintainability and scalability. You are adept at crafting RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures
• DevOps-Savvy: Experienced in working with containerized workloads and comfortable deploying and monitoring applications in a Kubernetes environment
• Leader and Mentor: Experienced in guiding engineers, helping them navigate complex problems and develop in autonomous teams

Desirable

• Architect and Build: Design and develop reliable, scalable services and APIs that power open banking data and payments across Europe
• Influence Across the Board: Report to the CTO and play a key role in shaping technical decisions across the department
• Set the Bar High: Write and test code that meets the highest quality and security standards from the get-go
• Monitor and Optimize: Instrument your code for metrics, ensuring your services are reliable and efficient in the cloud
• Lead by Example: Drive technical discussions, provide code reviews, and mentor fellow engineers to elevate our entire team
• Make an Impact: Contribute to products and services that help people make better financial decisions, fostering financial inclusion and literacy

• 1. Quick intro call with the hiring manager, understand your background and see if there’s potential for a good match (20–30-minute video call)
• 2. Hands on coding interview: here you will have to troubleshoot pre-written code and walk us through the improvement areas and how you would approach the problem (60-minute video call with light-live coding, no leetcode or algorithms)
• 3. Architecture skills and how you would lead a team: two of our staff engineers will have a free form conversation with you about what you have done, how you tackled technical and interpersonal problems, and your understanding of basic paradigms in the industry and the trade-offs that they bring with them. (90-minute video call)
• 4. Final call with the hiring manager to clarify technical details (contract, working location etc.) and review the offer together