Junior Backend Engineer - Customer Identity

About the opportunity

Banking Foundations domain mission for N26 is to provide secure and compliant banking services that are frictionless and innovative for customers, while enabling efficient operations and informed decision-making for our staff.

We achieve this through robust customer identity verification, proactive risk management, and seamless customer support. This foundation enables N26 to achieve sustainable growth while maintaining the highest levels of trust with our customers and regulators.

The Customer Identity segment is central to this mission. We own the full identity verification stack that powers N26's customer onboarding — from KYC verification orchestration and provider integrations (video identification, document verification, biometric screening) to the regulatory compliance checks that keep our banking licence in good standing. Our systems operate at scale across multiple European markets, processing high volumes of verifications while meeting strict AML, KYC, and GDPR requirements.

We are currently in an active architectural modernisation phase: consolidating our provider integration layer, hardening our orchestration service, and rationalising domain ownership across teams — giving engineers meaningful work on systems that directly affect every new N26 customer.

Our cross-functional teams are passionate about collaboration and sharing knowledge, as well as working with a high degree of autonomy.

As a Backend Engineer at N26, you will be encouraged to embrace the latest technological updates and given a platform to work on complex, interesting problems on a daily basis.

In this role, you will

Collaborate closely with your Tech Lead on architecting new features and seeing them through to completion.

Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software in a thriving environment.

Have opportunities to mentor junior members in the team by relentlessly guarding code quality through pull requests and helping them when they have questions