Senior Backend Engineer Java / Spring Boot - remote

Senior Backend Engineer Java / Spring Boot - remote at wealthAPI in Germany.

Responsibilities

• Work in a small team and as such take product assignments and lead them to completion. You will be responsible for all the phases of planning, development and delivery.
• Actively participate in architectural design and decision-making.
• Conduct code peer-reviews and attend retrospectives to plan and execute improvements as a team. Support junior and mid-level team members to achieve high code quality.
• Use modern technologies: Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, gcloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Astra-DB
• Get involved in technological projects together with experienced Engineers and further improve our architecture, scalability and security to fulfil the need of our ever growing solution
• Demonstrate great communication, ownership, accountability and team play skills. You are not “just” a developer - you will always think about our product and how to improve the experience for our customers.

Requirements

About you

• wealthAPI enables financial multipliers to monetize trust. We provide core financial solutions for large partners and (f)influencers, thereby actively driving the ongoing disruption of the wealth management market.
• We are looking for a Java engineer who is passionate about investing and finance. Optimally, you bring a good understanding of financial markets or want to deep-dive into the topic.
• You are able to solve complex financial problems and to directly translate them into code.
• For remote positions - a note on your time zone
• We are a small and efficient team. To keep our cooperation as smooth as possible, your place of residence should be in a time zone +/- 2 hours Berlin time.
• 5+ years of backend development experience
• Strong development experience in Java and preferably Spring Boot
• Test Driven Development
• Extensive unit and integration testing skills

Beneficial

• Experience in investing and personal wealth management is a huge plus
• Mathematical proficiency is a huge plus
• Machine learning experience or related statistical training
• Experience with a big-data stack such as MongoDB or Cassandra
• Knowledge of financial products and the stock market

Soft skills

• Willingness to learn about new technologies
• Use data or reliable source of information to drive the decision making during discussion, design or implementation phases
• Have the ability to take on complex problems, learn quickly, and persist towards a good solution
• Be conscious about speed of delivery vs quality of code and find the best balance
• Language skills
• English is mandatory
• German is a plus

Benefits

• We are a compact team that focuses on personal and professional growth. We discuss openly, decide in the team and implement together.
• We combine technical excellence with a deep understanding of financial markets. Learning from each other is part of the “ wealthAPI DNA”.
• We are passionate about what we are doing - and achieve because we love what we are doing.
• We solve real life investment problems together with a vibrant user base and see the immediate value of that.
• You learn to invest, about financial products and how to manage your money.
• We believe in automation. We automate anything and everything that can improve our productivity and focus.
• We write our own tests and we test our own solutions which helps us learn more and understand our customers better.
• wealthAPI is an equal career opportunity no matter your gender, identity, race or religion.
• We value transparency, close collaboration, and a slight amount of chaos in our work because it makes us faster and more creative.

About the Company

wealthAPI is a fast growing company with one central aim: improve the way we manage and plan our wealth. wealthAPI is primarily owned by its founders and operates under a long-term growth strategy.

At wealthAPI , we live an open discussion culture, decide together and develop as a team. Your are encouraged to take your own decisions and actively shape our products.

Performance in the job is important to all of us - at the same time both founders have family. This means we care about compatibility of family and career.

We combine technical excellency with a deep understanding of financial markets. Sharing knowledge is part of the " wealthAPI DNA".

We love our work - and are passionate about our products