(Senior) Backend Engineer (f/m/d)

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ABOUT US

We accelerate the growth of digital companies by providing tailored funding solutions and data-driven financial insights. Our mission is to refine capital for economies to come. We want to enable every company to access funding that’ll help them to thrive.
As a product- and tech-driven company we are founded by a team of experienced fintech entrepreneurs. We are backed by Tier 1 venture capital investors that have also backed the likes of Stripe, Trade Republic, Telegram, Monday.com and Sorare.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR ‍

• You are an experienced engineer (3+ years of experience) who is ready to own a key part of our product and to start building from day 1 onwards
• You are proficient in building production-grade systems in at least one backend technology (e.g., Go, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Elixir Phoenix, Java Spring, Clojure) and are willing to work in Go
• You are proficient in software architecture design, database design (ideally PostgreSQL) and value clean code and continuous integration and deployment processes
• You are proficient writing tests and value writing them (unit, integration, e2e)
• You are highly (self-)organized, want to move and build things fast and operate under the ‘ask for forgiveness instead of permission’ principle
• Experience in setting up and maintaining a cloud infrastructure (Terraform, ideally AWS) is a plus
• Experience in data engineering topics such as building ETL pipelines, creating data workflows (e.g., Dagster, Airflow), working with a data warehouse (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, DuckDB) and relevant technologies (DBT, python) is a plus
• Experience in fintech or finance in general is a plus
• You have a valid EU work permit and reside within the EU. re:cap does not offer visa or relocation support at the moment

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

Remote first. Our team is located all over Germany and Europe, with the flexibility of 100% home office. However, if you are in Berlin you are more than welcome to come around the office and maybe even bring your furry friend

• Stock options. Every employee receives stocks, because our success is also your success
• Development opportunities. Because we care about your growth, we have regular feedback talks as well as set paths for the development of each employee
• The latest tech equipment. Every new team member receives an Apple MacBook Air to guarantee smooth productivity
• Flexibility. We offer flexible working hours and value asynchronous communication as well. On top we offer 25 vacation days
• Team building. Meet the team at in-person on-sites, get a buddy to fully integrate into the company and join other team events
• International travel health insurance. Prioritizing your well-being with comprehensive coverage, we guarantee your peace of mind wherever your travels take you
• Workation. Experience the blend of work and leisure with our worldwide new benefit catering to your work-away-from-home needs
• We care about security. You will receive 1password family membership
• Choice. You get a monthly budget to finance a benefit of your choice

Even if not all of these points fit 100% we encourage you to apply! We hire also for attitude, not just for knowledge and are looking forward to hearing from you soon.

WHAT WILL YOU DO

You will be a key part of our engineering team making sure that everything in our backend runs smoothly. You will report to the VP Engineering.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will work closely with frontend engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists and financial analysts
• You will actively create new proposals and ideas to improve our system or suggest new features
• You will work on our financial funding product e.g. features that deal with managing cash flows or that automate daily operations of our financial advisors
• You will make sure that the orchestration and processing of all customer data runs smoothly. The work there will entail things like adding new third-party connections, orchestrating the data flow (e.g., calling our Python services to calculate certain metrics), and features that provide insights into our customers’ data.