Lead Backend Engineer - Assistance

About the opportunity

You will be part of the Intelligent Operations Platforms (IOP) or the Assistance segments, which cross-functional teams power the operations at N26 and in some cases enable other tech teams through a robust platform approach.

We are seeking a talented Lead Engineer to join our expanding teams and evolve our product, powered by a microservice architecture predominantly written in Java and Kotlin, using Spring Boot.

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

As a Lead 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

Directly impact your team’s tech scope: work hand in hand with PM and EM to manage product technical roadmaps and dependencies to minimise technical debt.

Architect & Build: Design, develop, and maintain high-availability, high-performance web applications that serve as the backbone of our internal operations.

Foster tech-solid delivery: Drive the team's build-it-ship-it attitude by demonstrating healthy engineering practices, writing clean, well-tested, and well-refactored code with the team, and shipping it into production as often as possible

Integrate AI: Implement new features and integrations with foundational models and automation systems to empower our back-office teams.

Scale: Optimize, measure and monitor distributed systems to ensure seamless, continuous software delivery.

Mentor & Document: Role model engineering excellence through code reviews, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing in multiple ways, cultivating learning and avoiding knowledge silos in the team

Lead initiatives to improve our company-wide engineering culture and discover ways to multiply the effectiveness of the team and the organisation

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