Senior Backend Engineer, Moonfare
4+ days a week in office
Global private equity investment platform
Be an early applicant
Global private equity investment platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
4+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To lead a new era for private equity investing and open the door to higher returns for more people.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer, ideally having worked for a Financial Services company
- Strong background in software architecture, with hands-on experience across service-oriented and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to model complex business domains
- Fluency in Typescript and Relational Databases
- Has experience with AWS and ideally Kubernetes
- Has hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with logging, monitoring tools (e.g., Newrelic, Grafana), and debugging large systems
- Is passionate about clean, well-tested code and takes full ownership of the SDLC, including deployment, production reliability, and monitoring
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools to ship high-quality code faster
- Plus to be familiar with other programming languages or databases
- Node.js (TypeScript)
- Express.js
- Next.js (App Router, Server Components, Route Handlers / API routes, Server Actions)
- REST & GRPC API design and integration
- Relational databases (MySQL) with ORMs (TypeORM)
- Caching & performance optimization (e.g., Redis, CDN, ISR/SSR tuning)
- Authentication & authorization (NextAuth/Auth.js, JWT, OAuth2, SSO)
- Security best practices for fintech/PII (encryption, OWASP, rate limiting)
- Background jobs & event-driven patterns (queues, webhooks)
- Testing (unit, integration, e2e – e.g., Jest, Playwright)
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) AWS services for backend workloads (e.g., RDS for MySQL, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda)
- Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, structured logging, tracing)
- Independent and Collaborative
- Communicative: Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English
- Adaptable and Open-minded: Willingness to adapt and explore new approaches
- Driven to build business fluency and customer focus
- You feel you do not meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply!
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer within our Engineering team at Moonfare, you will be instrumental in building, maintaining and evolving a modular monolith and all related components, structured around clear business domains
- You’ll be challenged with designing scalable backend solutions with a focus on security best practices and seamless integration across various teams—working collaboratively with Frontend, DevOps, Product, and business stakeholders to deliver an outstanding product experience for our customers
- Take Ownership: Write high-quality, well-tested code that ensures the reliability and performance of our services, helping to streamline operations and improve efficiency across the organisation
- Lead Architectural Transformation and Migration: Lead the strategic migration from our complex legacy monolith and fragmented microservices to a modern, modular monolith. This involves tackling significant technical debt, designing Anti-Corruption Layers (ACLs) to ensure data consistency, and defining the future architectural boundaries of our core platform
- Elevate Developer Experience (DX): Champion improvements in engineering productivity by overhauling our local development environment, which is currently time-consuming and unstable. You will support with the setup and deployment processes to ensure a fast, reliable, and frustration-free experience for the entire team
- Drive Quality and Testing Strategy: Redefine our quality assurance approach by implementing a robust testing pyramid. This includes moving away from slow, unreliable End-to-End (E2E) tests and fostering a culture of proactive testing and continuous refactoring to ensure high-quality code delivery
- Achieve Operational Excellence: Eliminate "firefighting" by identifying and resolving systemic data access issues, including inefficient SQL queries and manual database fixes required for product support. Your goal will be to build resilient, self-healing systems that minimize operational burden and maximize stability
- Instill a Culture of Engineering Health: Advocate for long-term architectural health by making the case for continuous refactoring and quality over short-term feature delivery. You will help instill a culture where technical debt is actively managed and engineering standards are consistently raised
Our take
Many high-level investment opportunities are solely reserved for financial institutions. This means that top-tier equity funds are completely out of reach for most private investors. Moonfare solves this problem by giving individuals access to institution-level investing.
Moonfare's platform allows investors to participate in funding rounds offered by some of the biggest investing companies, including The Carlyle Group and Tiger Global. The company offers investment opportunities with investment minimums as low as €50,000, which is about 100x less than the traditional minimum. So, while not everyone can afford to make investments through the company, a much larger pool of people have the ability to enter private markets.
Moonfare is headed up by an impressive team of KKR, BlackRock, Amazon and J.P. Morgan alums, which adds significant credibility to its product. The platform has also grown considerably since launching and more recently partnered with Fundcraft to enhance its digital infrastructure, automate fund administration, KYC, and capital call processes. This integration enables eligible investors to register and invest directly online in minutes, an exciting feat which will surely catch the eye of many investors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2023
$15m
SERIES C
Mar 2022
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $218.2m
Company benefits
- Attractive compensation: We benchmark our compensation against other Fintechs and aim to pay at the 75th percentile.
- Relax and Recharge: You start your career at Moonfare with 25 vacation days and earn one extra day per year of tenure. Additionally, we have company-wide days off on different occasions.
- Growth budgets: Each full-time employee receives a minimum of €1,500 growth budget/ year that can be used for seminars, coaching, certification or other things that fosters your growth.
- Free daily lunches: On top of snacks, fruits, cereals and drinks, we offer lunch in our Berlin office and generous lunch budgets in our other offices.
- Mental health support: Our mental health platform nilo.health gives all employees access to online counseling, daily meditations and mindfulness workshops.
- Other benefits: We also offer a variety of other benefits like company parties and events, a referral bonus of €2,000, spontaneous company-wide vacation and company merch.
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Dr Steffen Pauls
(Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman)Previously worked as a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group, and as Managing Director & Head of Germany at KKR. Has founded companies such as MOMENTAR and 7 Global Capital.
Alexander Argyros
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Co-founder of BlueLayer. Previously co-founded Somuchmore where they served as the Managing Director. They have also spent time at KKR and J.P. Morgan as an Associate.
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