Backend Engineer - Platform – Remote-First

🚀 Be part of a movement to change the way Europe pays

In today’s digital world, payments often still feel outdated: random delays and confusing rules make it harder than it should be to pay and get paid. The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is here to change all that, forever.

With Wero, our digital wallet, we make sending and receiving money simple, seamless and secure across France, Belgium and Germany, with more countries and omnichannel solutions coming soon. Supported by 14 major banks and the two largest European acquirers, EPI is building a new, proudly European payment system: easy, instant and transparent, all for the greater good.

🔎 What's In It For You

Join EPI as a Backend Software Engineer and contribute to transforming the European payment landscape. Together, we’re not just building yet another payment solution; we’re creating a stronger European payment ecosystem for consumers across all of Europe.

🐝 About The Team

You’ll be part of a Pan-European Product and Engineering team that operates in an agile environment. You’ll work closely — but fully remotely — with experts on a set of highly scalable and fault tolerant libraries and services that power our whole payment infrastructure. Your team members will be from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, and other European locations.

💥 Your impact

Technical leadership and development

• Lead the architecture and development of EPI's cloud-based microservices, focusing on scalability, performance, and business alignment
• Set high code quality standards, employ best practices for maintainable code, and oversee end-to-end feature development for timely delivery and stakeholder alignment
• Lead the end-to-end development of cloud-based microservices, including architecture, implementation, test automation, with a focus on scalability, performance, and quality
  
  

Strategic decision-making

• Oversee the platform's development with strategic decisions, considering current needs and growth expectations
• Drive innovation within your team to solve complex problems and improve efficiency
• Take a leading role in shaping the future of the platform through strategic architectural and other technical decisions, considering both EPI’s current needs and growth expectations
  
  

Cross collaboration

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams like product management & design, web development, and QA to ensure smooth development and excellent products
  
  

💻 Technology stack

• Kotlin (Coroutines, Flows, Ktor), MongoDB (Change Streams!), OpenAPI, Docker
• AWS, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Kubernetes, Kotest, Terraform, gitops
  
  

🕵🏻‍♀️ To succeed, you should meet at least 70% of these requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in developing highly scalable web applications, and a strong interest in devops/infrastructure
• A track record of implementing scalable system architectures, a thorough understanding of modern system design patterns and REST API design, complemented by comprehensive test coverage and documentation
• Ability to recognize and implement effective automated tests at suitable levels of involvement
• Proficiency in core backend technologies like Kotlin, Ktor, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and MongoDB
• Proficient in English communication for effective collaboration and stakeholder engagement
• Experienced in Agile methodologies, adaptable to changing project needs and timelines
  
  

🪜 If this looks like you, the recruitment steps are:

• A first call with one of our recruiters
• Technical interview with one of our Senior Engineers
• Final interview with our Head of Engineering
• Hopefully, an offer you can’t refuse
  
  

⛔ Turn back if …

• You're not passionate about web technologies or not willing to work in a fully remote environment
  
  

Otherwise apply!

🫶 Our commitment to equal employment opportunities

EPI offers the same job opportunities to all, without distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age. EPI promotes the development of an inclusive work environment that mirrors the diversity of the clients our product is serving.