Senior Backend Software Engineer - Consumer Growth

Satispay

About us Satispay began by rethinking the simple act of a payment to remove the friction from our daily routines. But we didn’t stop there. Today, we are building a complete financial platform designed to empower people and concretely improve their lives. By giving our 6 million users a clear, open path to pay, save, and invest, we are evolving into the definitive destination for every financial need. What you'll be doing As our Backend Software Engineer II - Consumer Growth Domain, you’ll be the person who plays a key role in shaping the future of digital payments by designing and building scalable features that drive user growth, reduce friction for new users, and create sustainable value for our community. Here's what your day-to-day will look like: * Contribute to the Story Lifecycle - Work closely with senior engineers to design, develop, and release robust product stories, taking responsibility for your features from local development to production. * Accelerate Activation & Trust - Build and optimize the high-reliability systems behind onboarding, document verification, and security flows, ensuring users can start transacting safely within minutes. * Drive Engagement & Discovery - Enhance the app experience by developing core backend services for shop discovery, transaction management, and personalized consumer journeys through CRM integrations. * Scale Loyalty & Monetization - Contribute to our "Plus" subscription plans, referral programs, and loyalty mechanics (points and rewards), building the technical foundation for long-term user retention. * Master a Modern Tech Stack - Take ownership of our AWS-based infrastructure (EC2/ECS, S3, Lambda, Kinesis) and participate in architectural improvements across our growth-focused microservices. * Work in an AI-Powered Environment - Leverage AI tools daily to write and optimize code, speed up root cause analysis, and generate documentation, raising the bar for engineering efficiency. * Ensure Quality and Stability - Write clean, testable code, participate in code reviews, and assist the team in incident resolution and root cause analysis to maintain high system health. * Collaborate & Document - Write clear technical documentation for your features and sync with Product and Stakeholders to keep your work aligned with the team roadmap. Who we're looking for We are looking for a dynamic problem-solver who is excited about scaling a user base and building seamless digital experiences. Does this sound like you? * Experience - You have at least 1 year of experience as a Backend Engineer, with a strong track record of building and maintaining scalable microservices in fast-paced environments. * Technical Foundations - Solid expertise in Java and Spring Boot, with a good understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL) and cloud environments. If you’re also passionate about or have hands-on experience building GenAI-driven features, such as backend services using LLMs, orchestration frameworks like LangGraph, or AWS cloud services like Amazon Bedrock, that’s considered a value-add. * Growth Mindset - You care about performance and user experience. You understand that small technical improvements in onboarding or loyalty flows can have a massive impact on millions of users. * Reliability & Documentation - You are structured in your approach, enjoy writing clear technical documentation, and focus on building maintainable, high-quality code. * Teamwork and Communication - You excel at cross-functional collaboration and are able to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical peers. * Passion and Language Skills - You are passionate about FinTech, user growth, or startup environments and are fluent in English. Don't worry if you don't tick every box. We believe in the power of different viewpoints and strengths. Your unique perspective is important as we build something special. If you're passionate and can make a difference, we truly encourage you to apply. CareAbout: how we support your impact We move fast, and evolution never stops. It’s a fun ride, but it can be challenging. To make sure our people truly thrive, we’re committed to making their lives easier, both in the office and out in the world. That’s why we created CareAbout: * ❤️ Health (Private insurance and health coverage for you and your family, psychological support with Serenis, mental health workshops) * 💰 Financial resources (Stock Option Plan, Meal vouchers, Relocation support if you’re moving countries) * ⚙️ Growth and development (Professional development programs, Internal mobility, Language courses with Preply) * 🌱 Flexibility (Unlimited PTO, Hybrid working policy*, Flexible working hours) * 👨‍👩‍👧 Family (Enhanced parental leave, Additional leave for child sickness) *We embrace three days per week in-office (Tuesday and Thursday + 1 of your choice), with the option to request extra remote time. Salary: €38,000 - €46,000 gross per annum This range is set using objective, gender-neutral criteria for the role's core requirements. However, we do not believe in putting a ceiling on talent. The final compensation package is tailored according to your unique experience and expertise. If your skills go beyond the standard profile, apply anyway so we can discuss a package that reflects your true value. Equal Opportunity Employer At Satispay, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and inclusion, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds. This opportunity is open to everyone, regardless - for instance - of race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and national origin. Join us in a workplace where everyone belongs! Learn more about us Our values and pillars aren’t just fancy words on a page - they really shape everything we do. Explore them here. #LI-VR1 #LI-Hybrid By submitting this application, I acknowledge that I have read and understood the content of the Privacy Policy

Satispay

About us Satispay began by rethinking the simple act of a payment to remove the friction from our daily routines. But we didn't stop there. Today, we are building a complete financial platform designed to empower people and concretely improve their lives. By giving our 6 million users a clear, open path to pay, save, and invest, we are evolving into the definitive destination for every financial need. What you'll be doing As our Senior Backend Software Engineer, you'll be the person who plays a critical role in engineering the backbone of our payment platform, ensuring high-performant and scalable core systems. Here's what your day-to-day will look like: * Engineer core platform domains: Design and evolve our most sensitive systems—such as the Transaction Ledger, Identity & Access Management (IAM), or Payment Orchestration—ensuring they remain functional for product teams. * Scale risk & financial engines: Optimize and implement services dedicated to bank integrations, credit risk, and real-time fraud detection to protect our "source of truth." * Cross-team technical leadership: Drive technical analysis for projects that span across multiple services and produce high-quality documentation (Smart Papers) for stakeholders. * Foster engineering excellence: Ensure technical quality through rigorous testing strategies and safe rollouts, promoting a culture of simplicity and maintainability. * Mentor & develop: Provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, helping the team adopt the best tools to accelerate development cycles. Who we're looking for We need a problem-solver who loves teamwork and gets things done. If you're curious and ready for real ownership, you'll fit in! Does this sound like you? * Extensive experience: You have at least 5 years of related experience in back-end software engineering, with a track record in microservices and cloud environments (AWS preferred). * Technical depth: You possess deep experience with Java and Spring Boot, alongside a strong understanding of distributed systems. * Structured communication: You excel at communicating complex technical concepts clearly and coordinating implementations across different teams. * Impact mindset: You focus on delivering software that meets evolving user needs, avoiding analysis paralysis to optimize systems beyond initial requirements. * Language proficiency: You are passionate about FinTech and fluent in English. CareAbout: how we support your impact We move fast, and evolution never stops. It's a fun ride, but it can be challenging. To make sure our people truly thrive, we're committed to making their lives easier, both in the office and out in the world. That's why we created CareAbout: * ❤️ Health (Private insurance for you and your family, psychological support with Serenis, mental health workshops) * 💰 Financial resources (Stock Option Plan, Meal vouchers, Relocation support if you're moving countries) * ⚙️ Growth and development (Professional development programs, Internal mobility, Language courses with Preply) * 🌱 Flexibility (Unlimited PTO, Hybrid working policy*, Flexible working hours) * 👨‍👩‍👧 Family (Enhanced parental leave, Additional leave for child sickness) *We embrace three days per week in-office (Tuesday and Thursday + 1 of your choice), with the option to request extra remote time. Salary: €51,000 - €66,500 gross per annum This range is set using objective, gender-neutral criteria for the role's core requirements. However, we do not believe in putting a ceiling on talent. The final compensation package is tailored according to your unique experience and expertise. If your skills go beyond the standard profile, apply anyway so we can discuss a package that reflects your true value.   Equal opportunity employer At Satispay, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and inclusion, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds. This opportunity is open to everyone, regardless - for instance - of race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and national origin. Join us in a workplace where everyone belongs!   Learn more about us Our values and pillars aren't just fancy words on a page - they really shape everything we do. Explore them here.   #LI-VR1 #LI-Hybrid By submitting this application, I acknowledge that I have read and understood the content of the Privacy Policy

TrueLayer

WHO WE ARE: TrueLayer is Europe’s fastest-growing Pay by Bank network. We power smarter, safer and faster payments by combining real-time bank payments with financial and identity data. E-commerce, iGaming and Financial Services businesses use our products to onboard new users, accept money and make payouts in seconds, and at scale. Live across 22 countries and with 1 new user joining TrueLayer’s Pay by Bank network every 3 seconds, we’re in a very exciting growth stage. This is why we’re expanding the team across our offices in London, Milan, and Dublin. Listed in Sifted as one of the 100 fastest growing start-ups in UK & Ireland, and CNBC’s World Top Fintech Companies, we’re trusted by industry leaders like RyanAir and Just Eat Takeaway for continued innovation within our payment products. To date, we’ve raised over $300 million from world-renowned investors including Stripe, Tiger Global, Northzone, and Tencent. But this is just the beginning. We’re looking for people who are excited about joining the Pay by Bank revolution and helping us change the way the world pays. Could this be you?  DESCRIPTION The role is Remote, but only for people in Italy. At TrueLayer, we’re building a global open banking platform that’s changing how money moves and so much more. We make payments and refunds instant, account data accessible and verification seamless — all so innovators in every industry can build better financial experiences for their users.   We’re looking for software engineers who love learning new things and working with others to solve complex customer problems. You’ll be at the heart of financial innovation, using industry-disrupting technologies like open banking, to revolutionise online payments and enable financial data to be integrated into any app or website.   Working at a rapidly growing fintech, you’ll encounter new and exciting challenges as we scale our products and infrastructure to meet the demands of our customers, and expand our ecosystem to open up new possibilities. Guided by our Engineering Principles, you’ll collaborate on the design, implementation, delivery and operation of our products — in short: you’ll build it, you’ll run it!   In addition to working with modern development frameworks and cloud technologies, we are committed to helping you develop new skills and advance in your career. Whether you want to continue to grow your technical expertise or move into leadership, we have clear and tangible paths for everyone, irrespective of your level of experience, role or discipline. OUR CHALLENGES * We want to continuously iterate and improve our offering without compromising the stability or long-term maintainability of our systems. * We serve millions of API requests with a 99.5% availability SLA. Our platform must remain a reliable foundation that our customers can build upon as we expand (new products, new geographies, more volume). * We want TrueLayer to be an exceptional place to work. We want our processes and interactions to stay honest, genuine and human as the company grows. * We want our engineers to grow with us. To have the opportunity, the guidance and the support to develop their technical and core skills to the fullest within the organisation. WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU, AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER * Become a proficient user of our platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, etc) and our tools (Rust and .NET ). Training will be available to fill in any gaps in your current knowledge  * Partner with your Engineering Manager and Product Manager to size and break down requirements for new features and product efforts  * Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders * Employ design patterns, testing and automation to ensure fast and safe iteration cycles. Use your knowledge to coach your teammates and level up the whole engineering organisation  * Play an active role in our incident response. Support the Incident Lead by taking ownership of investigation and service recovery for the areas of our platform under your responsibility  * Contribute to cross-team technology efforts by joining our engineering guilds * Role model our values and help make sure TrueLayer remains an exceptional place to work REQUIREMENTS * Experience building distributed systems in any common backend  language/framework such as Rust, .NET, Java, and Go * Thorough understanding of common design patterns and principles, and how/when to apply them * Familiarity with API design and experience with at least one web framework * Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL data technologies * Understanding of microservice architecture and its associated challenges * Familiarity with testing best practices — TDD, unit testing and integration testing, etc * Experience with observability and alerting in mission-critical distributed systems  WE’D BE PARTICULARLY EXCITED IF YOU HAVE: * Understanding of protocol buffers, gRPC, and message queue systems. * Experience building libraries and involvement in open source software. * Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform. BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION 65,750 - €79,000 + equity WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US * Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company 💰 * Flexible hours and hybrid working - we offer a hybrid approach to work of 3 days per week remote working 🏡 and 2 days per week in our new offices in London 🇬🇧 Milan 🇮🇹  and Dublin 🇮🇪 * Need to collect the kids from childcare? Love a workout in the gym first thing?  No worries, we trust you to do your best work within our hybrid framework 🧘 * Flexible holiday policy, with 24 days as standard ✈️ * 2 volunteering days to support causes important to you 🌳 * Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure 👨‍👩‍👧 * Meal vouchers for every day you’re working, including while remote * Budget to spend on learning & development each year 📚 * 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year and your birthday off (on top of the holiday allowance) 🕊 * Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill  🧘🏻‍♀️   ABOUT OUR HIRING PROCESS Our hiring process typically consists of four stages: 1. A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners. 2. A take-home exercise Software Engineering Challenge. 3. 2-hour video interview with two TrueLayer engineers. 4. 1.5-hour total final round video interviews.   Full details on the interview process, including preparation tips and the qualities we look for in future TrueLayeristas, can be found on our blog. At TrueLayer, we don’t just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. Because we believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups (e.g. people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from all socio-economic backgrounds). If you’d like to discuss alternative working patterns, please let us know. We will always aim to make appropriate adjustments to ensure we are fully inclusive to people with different needs during our interview process. So if you need us to make any adjustments to suit your individual needs please let us know - we’ll be happy to support you.