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Senior Backend Engineer, Java – Spring Boot
Location
Europe
Posted
69 days ago
Salary
€50K - €90K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer, Java – Spring Boot
wealthAPI GmbH
• Work in a small team and as such take product assignments and lead them to completion. • You will be responsible for all the phases of planning, development and delivery. • Actively participate in architectural design and decision-making. • Conduct code peer-reviews and attend retrospectives to plan and execute improvements as a team. • Support junior and mid-level team members to achieve high code quality. • Use modern technologies: Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, gcloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Astra-DB • Get involved in technological projects together with experienced Engineers and further improve our architecture, scalability and security to fulfil the need of our ever growing solution. • Demonstrate great communication, ownership, accountability and team play skills. • You are not “just” a developer - you will always think about our product and how to improve the experience for our customers.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of backend development experience
- Strong development experience in Java and preferably Spring Boot
- Test Driven Development
- Extensive unit and integration testing skills
- Experience in investing and personal wealth management is a huge plus
- Mathematical proficiency is a huge plus
- Machine learning experience or related statistical training
- Experience with a big-data stack such as MongoDB or Cassandra
- Knowledge of financial products and the stock market
- Willingness to learn about new technologies
- Use data or reliable source of information to drive the decision making during discussion, design or implementation phases
- Have the ability to take on complex problems, learn quickly, and persist towards a good solution
- Be conscious about speed of delivery vs quality of code and find the best balance
- English is mandatory, German is a plus.
Benefits
- We are a compact team that focuses on personal and professional growth.
- We discuss openly, decide in the team and implement together.
- We combine technical excellence with a deep understanding of financial markets.
- Learning from each other is part of the “wealthAPI DNA”.
- We are passionate about what we are doing - and achieve because we love what we are doing.
- We solve real life investment problems together with a vibrant user base and see the immediate value of that.
- We believe in automation. We automate anything and everything that can improve our productivity and focus.
- We write our own tests and we test our own solutions which helps us learn more and understand our customers better.
- wealthAPI is an equal career opportunity no matter your gender, identity, race or religion.
- We value transparency, close collaboration, and a slight amount of chaos in our work because it makes us faster and more creative.
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