Backend Engineer - Transfers Gateway

Overview

Backend Engineer for the Transfers Gateway squad, building and operating services that move money by integrating internal systems with external financial networks across the EU and UK.

What you'll do

• Build, run, and maintain production money-movement backend services.
• Own end-to-end feature delivery and contribute to larger projects.
• Contribute to technical design and implementation following architectural patterns.
• Improve reliability and quality through tests, monitoring, and delivery pipeline adherence.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; learn from post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, and engineers to deliver end-to-end transfer and banking capabilities.

What you'll need

• Experience building backend services and supporting them in production.
• Proficiency in Golang.
• Comfort working with cloud-based systems, containerized workloads, and automated delivery pipelines.
• Ability to raise well-scoped pull requests and conduct thorough code reviews.
• Understanding of system architecture fundamentals, data modelling, and API design.
• Clear communication and effective collaboration with engineers and product managers.

Details

• Location: Berlin, Germany.
• Tech stack includes Go, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Honeycomb.
• On-call rotations and incident response are part of the role.