Senior Backend Engineer - Product Foundation (m/f/x) onsite or remote in Germany or Austria

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment platform in Europe.
Since our foundation in 2014, we pursue the mission to empower everyone to become an investor. With the Scalable Broker, and our digital wealth management service Scalable Wealth as well as our solutions for B2B partners we offer easy and cost efficient investing for everyone.
Today, Scalable Capital is a FinTech unicorn - we have more than 600,000 customers and more than 17 billion Euros on our platform.

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Our Company Values guide us every day in how we work and collaborate. To learn more about them, you can find our values here (English).

As a Senior Backend Engineer within our Product Foundation Tribe, you'll play a key role in laying a secure, compliant, and efficient foundation that enables the rest of the organization to innovate with confidence. Your work will directly impact Scalable’s foundational product components, ranging from user authentication to our client onboarding journey and our internal backoffice platform. 

We're looking for bar-raisers - engineers who go beyond the code to influence the direction of our products. Your curiosity will lead you to explore customer needs firsthand, contributing to a team that values a business mindset. As we deal with a user base in the millions, we place a strong emphasis on process optimization, aiming to constantly improve how we manage our work and serve our customers.

Our engineering DNA is woven from a few vital strands: diversity, lifelong learning, humility, hard work, ownership, and collaboration. We welcome individuals from all cultural backgrounds, enriching our already diverse environment. The right person should demonstrate an intrinsic motivation to learn continuously, stay updated with trends, and apply new knowledge innovatively. Ownership is key, too; we look for individuals ready to take responsibility and accountability for their tasks. And finally, we need collaborators - those who take responsibility for the health and success of the team, are comfortable leading from any position, and are unafraid to have serious conversations when necessary.

• Drive full-cycle development of scalable, reliable, and high-performance solutions, focusing on Java, Kotlin, and Spring technologies.
• Align your work with the Product Foundation Tribe's mission to provide a secure, compliant, and efficient foundation, optimized to onboard and serve millions of clients.
• Leverage our cloud-native, DevOps-enabled infrastructure, working with AWS services like ECS, Fargate, and Lambda.
• Contribute to a culture of diversity, lifelong learning, and collaboration.
• Understand our customers' needs and provide relevant info for data-driven decision-making processes.
• Think in terms of processes to manage our ever-growing user base, aiming to continuously improve and innovate in how we operate and serve our customers.

• Extensive backend development experience with a strong grasp of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Typescript, Python, C#, etc.).
• Familiarity with Spring Framework and Spring Boot is a plus but not required.
• Profound understanding of RESTful API Design.
• Experience with cloud services, particularly AWS services like ECS, Fargate, and Lambda.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure management.
• Advocacy for and experience in Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming, with the willingness to champion these practices within a team unfamiliar with their benefits.
• A "left-shift" quality mindset, emphasizing the importance of quality assurance in the early stages of the development cycle.
• Demonstrable experience in full-cycle development, from concept to deployment.
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on process optimization and performance improvement.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools and setting up SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs is a plus.
• A mindset geared toward lifelong learning, diversity, and collaboration.
• Ability to take ownership of tasks and projects, and hold yourself accountable for their success.

What We Expect From Your Application

Joining Scalable Capital means demonstrating an impact mindset. In your application, illustrate how you've actively contributed to innovation and excellence in your past experiences. While a cover letter isn't mandatory, we strongly encourage it. It's your opportunity to express your enthusiasm for the role and how it fits into your personal and professional development. We diligently read each application, seeking those who are eager to raise the bar with us.

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Enjoy an office in a great location in the middle of Munich, Berlin Mitte or Vienna
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions and spending your individual Education Budget 
• Free German language classes
• (International) relocation support
• Opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker

Our Recruitment Process overview: 

1. Application review
2. Online coding challenge - 90 min
3. Initial Interview - ca 45 min
4. Final round of 3 separate interviews - 3 x 60min 

- Technical Interview - deep dive
- Head of Engineering Interview
- HR Interview

For more information about Scalable and our recruitment process please visit our Career page: https://de.scalable.capital/careers#process

Scalable Capital offers competitive compensation and benefits based on the performance, experience and qualifications of its employees. Due to Austrian legal requirements, we are obliged to state the minimum salary for this position. This corresponds to the minimum annual gross salary according to the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Of course, we are prepared to offer a higher salary depending on the individual situation (experience, responsibility, specialist knowledge and skills).