Backend Engineer (Mid-Level) - Financial Services

At Moss, we help companies spend smarter. We’re a place where aspiring, adaptable quick-thinkers thrive, and we’re set to become the next leading spend management platform in the European FinTech industry.

Our Financial Services Tribe is seeking a Backend Engineer (f/m/d) to build and scale customer onboarding, open banking, wallet management, payments and treasury UX workflows. Collaborating closely with product managers, designers and frontend engineers, you will bring innovative ideas to life, ensuring our product provides a delightful user-friendly experience and empowers users with intuitive and efficient tools.

Your responsibilities

Here's a bit more on what you can expect to be doing day-to-day:

• Backend Development: Lead the development of the application, ensuring it aligns with the product requirements and meets performance and usability standards. Proactively provide regular updates on work progress, achievements and challenges to product managers (PMs) and designers.

• Collaborative Planning: Partner with PMs and designers during project kick-offs to gain a comprehensive understanding of the overall vision, user needs, and goals. Provide valuable insights to refine UI/UX concepts and contribute to the planning of backend development.

• Frontend Collaboration: Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to determine required APIs and frontend functionality. Maintain clear communication channels to ensure smooth integration of frontend and backend components.

• Testing and Quality Assurance: Produce well tested and reliable code. Writing unit and functional (end-to-end) tests.

• Rollout and Performance Monitoring: Collaborate with product managers to devise efficient rollout strategies for new features. Monitor performance and user feedback to identify areas for improvement and proactively address potential issues.

About you

We think you’ll need the following experience and qualifications to succeed in this role: 

• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer, leading projects end-to-end to launch. 

• Proficiency in Java development technologies (incl. Spring framework), as well as latest features and best practices such as microservices, message queue, alerting, reliability and feature flags.

• Understanding of development design patterns and techniques, incl. Rest API design principles.

• Hands-on experience with testing approaches and libraries (unit testing, integration testing).

• You are fluent in English.

In addition, here are the skills and attributes we are looking for:

• Pragmatic Tech Enthusiast: You have the theoretical and practical background to engineer our product. You pursue quality and scalability and follow industry and company best practices. You build systems that are easy to maintain and to understand by others.

• Delivery Focused: You understand and focus on what is important to deliver the most impact. This means accurate development and delivery estimations, ruthless prioritization and saying no to less important things. You are driven to deliver tangible outcomes within estimated timelines, and you swiftly tackle challenges, and provide clear direction to others.

• Collaborative Communicator: You convey information effectively to a variety of audiences, and actively participate in daily meetings, keeping others informed about your progress and status. You’re able to form trustworthy connections by creating and maintaining open communication with colleagues throughout the development process.

• Inquisitive Mindset: You’re detail-oriented and seek to develop a deep domain knowledge by proactively seeking to understand workflows and technical intricacies. You’re curious and unafraid to question assumptions and propose alternative approaches, ensuring the product is tailored to meet customer needs.

• Team Player: You bring a team together to work towards a shared goal, as well as support individuals throughout all phases of a project.

Our offer

We believe the greatest benefit we can offer you is the opportunity to develop your skills and progress your career - we’d like to help you on that journey. Here's what else you can expect:

• An attractive compensation package, including our company stock option plan

• An annual learning budget of 600 euros

• Access to our mental health and wellbeing offering, including 1-on-1 coaching sessions

• 20 days work from abroad

About Moss

Moss is a SaaS scale-up business founded in Berlin. In the last years, we have built a passionate team of circa 250 people from 40+ nationalities in 6 offices across Europe.

To date, we help over 3000+ businesses in Germany, Netherlands and the UK to spend smarter. Our leading spend management solution encompasses corporate cards, invoice management, employee cash reimbursements and controlling modules that help finance teams save thousands of hours in manual data processing and gain complete control while enabling their teams.

Moss has raised a total of €180 million in funding and is backed by renowned tech investors including Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Global Founders Capital, Cherry Ventures and A-Star.

Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customer base, but we also strive to do the same for our growing team. At Moss, we offer equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, or other class protected by applicable law.

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