Backend Engineer - Core Banking

The Core Banking team plays a critical role in shaping the way we run our core banking platform that enables the rest of the teams in TransferGo.  And, to make sure we’re doing that in the best way possible, we’re now looking for a talented Backend Engineer to work in our Core Banking team.

Here’s what you’ll be doing as Backend Engineer:

• Design, build and operate services in a cloud-native, service-oriented environment, which will be used by multi-platform applications and hundreds of thousands of users
• Enjoy a great level of end-to-end autonomy, contributing to system design, implementation approach and production operations of your services. We truly believe in the “Builders mindset”
• Work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders to build modern and scalable software
• Work in a team of strong professionals - a great chance to learn from Senior Software Engineers, Engineering and Product Managers

You’ll report to our Engineering Manager

Here’s what we’d love from our new Backend Engineer:

• Someone who is initially open to working on existing solutions in PHP 7/8
• You are a good communicator and are able to use English effectively at work
• You are able to detect problems and find, create solutions
• You have strong sense of ownership
• You can champion engineering innovation and best practices
• You enjoy sharing your experience with other engineers and helping others to succeed

It would be awesome if:

• You have 2 years of experience in delivering quality software solutions; 
• You have experience with microservice architecture;
• You worked with large-scale distributed and event-driven systems;
• You have deployed backend applications at scale, with AWS or a similar provider;
• You enjoy building products used by people;
• You are a good communicator and can use English effectively at work;
• You are enthusiastic about technology and best engineering practices;
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and are willing to help us find the best solutions;
• You are passionate about growing your knowledge in scaling fintech companies.

Here are some of our core tools helping us to get the job done:

• Runtime: .NET 8
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD: GitHub, Jenkins
• Data: MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, S3
• Test: xUnit, Moq, AutoFixture, FluentAssertions

Check our our full stack here: https://stackshare.io/transfergo/transfergo

Monthly salary starting from 3600 € (gross) depending on the level of experience.

What we believe:

At TransferGo, we offer competitive rewards to all people. We know that recognition is about more than just money, and we’ve fostered a culture of kudos to shine a light on the great work throughout the business, and the people making it all happen. We hold regular in person events to connect with each other and help all our TransferNauts to grow with a generous training allowance. We believe that empowering people makes for a happier and more effective workforce. This means we enable anyone who wants to pursue initiatives that deliver real value for our migrant customers. 

What we offer:

• Be part of building a meaningful product in a growing fintech scale-up
• We hire owners
• A competitive rewards package
• Generous holiday allowance (based on tenure)
• Competitive healthcare insurance / wellbeing package from day one (based on your location)
• An annual development budget of €1,000 to spend on your growth
• We truly embrace flexibility and take a hybrid approach to our working style. Most of our team members come into their local office 2 days a week