Backend Engineer

About the Role This is a backend engineering role at the heart of a fintech team building compliance and identity infrastructure for businesses. You will design scalable, high-trust systems and help shape the engineering culture of a senior, distributed team solving a genuinely hard technical problem. What You'll Do - Design and build backend systems that are clean, testable, and efficient. - Architect scalable APIs and infrastructure suited to high-trust, regulated environments. - Bring strong opinions on testing, quality, and long-term maintainability to every project. - Tackle complex product challenges by thinking deeply about user needs and system behavior. - Shape engineering practices and technical culture through collaboration and hands-on leadership. What We're Looking For - 5 or more years of backend engineering experience building production APIs, distributed services, or backend systems; the team skews toward 7+ years. - Strong systems thinking: ability to see beyond individual features and reason about large-scale architectural problems. - Experience building in high-trust or regulated domains such as fintech, payments, or identity. - Hands-on experience with relational databases (Postgres or similar) in production. - Experience with message queues or event-driven architectures (RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar). - Experience deploying and managing applications in containerized or cloud environments (Kubernetes, AWS, or similar). - A track record of writing automated tests and maintaining testable codebases. - Familiarity with Node.js, TypeScript, Express, and Event Sourcing patterns is a plus but not required. - Background at a high-caliber fintech, payments, or high-growth technology company is a strong signal. - Clear communicator who enjoys breaking down complexity and collaborating closely with teammates. - Comfortable working with ambiguity and driven by curiosity, big ambitions, and kindness. Compensation & Benefits Base salary: EUR 116,000 to 146,000 , applied consistently at each level with no individual salary negotiation. Visa sponsorship is not available. Location Fully remote, open to candidates in European timezones. European timezone availability is a hard requirement. The team meets in person every six weeks for a company-wide gathering.