(Senior) Backend Engineer (f/m/d)

remote - Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Portugal, Slovakia or Austria

About us 🚀

We accelerate the growth of digital businesses by providing tailored funding solutions and data-driven financial insights. Our mission is to refine capital for the economy of the future. We want every business to have access to funding that helps them thrive.

As a product and technology driven company, we were founded by a team of experienced fintech entrepreneurs. We are backed by Tier 1 venture capital investors who have also backed the likes of Stripe, Trade Republic, Telegram, Monday.com and Sorare.

Our values 💪🏼

We value flat hierarchies, full ownership and responsibility. Trust and open, honest communication are crucial to us, as it makes everything else easier. We work together and grow as a team.

Focus on Execution: We love and live off great ideas, but to create value we need to focus on execution.

Don’t Fear Failure: We know that failure is an innate part of learning and success, so we value these experiences and take them as opportunities to try again and get better.

Trust Your Team: We trust our peers to do their best to achieve our shared goals, support each other and share their feedback so we can all grow and develop.

Your contribution to our success 🤓

We do various things in the backend, your work will span over multiple topics, including:

• Working closely with frontend engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists and financial analysts

• Actively creating new proposals and ideas to improve our system or suggest new features

• Working on our financial funding product e.g. features that deal with managing cash flows or that automate the daily operations of our financial advisors

• We process the data of thousands of companies every day, the orchestration and most of the processing happens in the backend. The work there will entail things like adding new third-party connections, orchestrating the data flow (e.g. calling our Python services to calculate certain metrics), and features that provide insights into the data of our customers, etc.

Who we are looking for 🕵🏽‍♀️

• You are an experienced engineer (3+ years of experience) who is ready to own a key part of our product and to start building from day 1 onwards

• You are proficient in building production-grade systems in Go

• You are proficient in software architecture design, database design (ideally PostgreSQL), and value clean code and continuous integration and deployment processes

• You are proficient in writing tests and value writing them (unit, integration, e2e)

• You are highly (self-)organized, want to move and build things fast, and operate under the ‘ask for forgiveness instead of permission’ principle

• Experience in setting up and maintaining a cloud infrastructure (Terraform, Kubernetes, GCP) is a plus

• Experience in data engineering topics such as building ETL pipelines, creating data workflows (e.g., Dagster, Airflow), working with a data warehouse (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, DuckDB) and relevant technologies (DBT, python) is a plus

• Experience in fintech or finance in general is a plus

• English is our company language - so speaking English fluently is a must

• You have a valid EU work permit and reside within the EU. re:cap does not offer visa or relocation support at the moment

Our tech stack 👩🏽‍💻

• Frontend: React, Typescript, Tailwind, Cypress

• Backend: Go, PostgreSQL, REST

• Data: Python, Airbyte, Dagster, BigQuery

• DevOps: GCP, Kuberenetes, Docker, Terraform, Github

• Experience with our stack isn't a must

What you can expect 🪴

• Remote first. Our team is located all over Germany and Europe, with the flexibility of 100% home office. However, if you are in Berlin you are more than welcome to come around the office and maybe even bring your furry friend 🐶

• Stock options. Every employee receives stocks, because our success is also your success

• Development opportunities. Because we care about your growth, we have regular feedback talks as well as set paths for the development of each employee

• The latest tech equipment. Every new team member receives an Apple MacBook Air to guarantee smooth productivity

• Flexibility. We offer flexible working hours and value asynchronous communication as well. On top we offer 25 vacation days

• Team building. Meet the team at in-person on-sites, get a buddy to fully integrate into the company and join other team events

• Workation. Experience the blend of work and leisure with our worldwide new benefit catering to your work-away-from-home needs

• International health insurance for business trips and workation. We prioritise your well-being and guarantee you comprehensive insurance cover, no matter where your travels take you

• We care about security. You will receive 1password family membership

• Choice. You get a monthly budget to finance a benefit of your choice

🌟 Even if not all of these points fit 100% we encourage you to apply! We hire also for attitude, not just for knowledge and are looking forward to hearing from you soon.

What comes after you apply? 🧚🏽‍♀️

Easy steps for a smooth hiring process

1. Application Review

2. Get to know re:cap

3. Case study/Take home Assignment (depending on the position)

4. Role-specific Interview

5. Get to know the team

6. Offer

We are committed to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace where we provide equal opportunities regardless of age, gender identity, disability status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. Therefore we encourage you to apply as all qualified applications will be taken into consideration.