Working Student - Engineering (m/f/d)

About Ivy

Ivy is a global API for instant bank payments. We enable businesses to accept instant bank payments - taking cards & wallets out of online transactions and reducing cost by up to 10x. Over 60 geographies worldwide are rolling out instant bank payment infrastructure right now. Ivy harmonises these regional bank payment schemes, bringing them to a single point of access.

• Our current team consists of payment experts coming from companies like Klarna, Trade Republic, Revolut, TrueLayer, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, McKinsey, BCG, Trustly.

• We have offices in Berlin and Munich.

• We are working with many of Europe's fastest-growing retailers and innovators (e.g. hood.de, mytheresa.com, roadsurfer.com). 

• Up to today, we have raised $30M of funding from Valar Ventures and Creandum, renowned backers of fintech successes like Wise, Klarna, Qonto, N26, and Trade Republic. Founders and industry executives from Adyen, Pleo, N26, Mollie, and Plaid complete our stellar investor lineup.

Your mission

As a Working Student Engineer, you will be working on developing our core product. You are part of the engineering team and work on quickly iterating on our product while continuously shipping new and valuable, high-quality functionality to our customers.

Your profile

• You can be thrown at complex technical problems and autonomously work your way through them

• You have a strong drive and ambition and hold yourself to the highest standards

• You don’t worry about setting up a local dev environment, spinning up a Docker container, or resolving a couple of merge conflicts

• You favour open communication, constant feedback, and short decision paths

• You have experience building backend code with Typescript and Node.js

• You are eager to learn from some of the best engineers in europe to quickly grow your skillset while building product hands-on

• You have great problem-solving skills and the ability to analyse & go deep on complex technological issues.

How we work:

• Ship for user value: Together with your team, you ship new features. You actively participate in delivering the best possible software to our customers.

• You build it, you run it: You build features with a “you build it, you run it” mindset and are responsible for testing, deployment and monitoring of your code.

• Ship fast & often: You empower the product team to quickly iterate and test prototypes. You push for decreasing scope to minimal, value-creating increments and ship them.

• Automation first thinking: repetitive dev processes are run in CI, for others we create a quick no-code automation.

• We hire people, not roles: while people are experts in areas, you can work on the entire stack

The perks of working with us:

• Make a real impact: Build a global technology winner challenging Visa & Mastercard. Shape the experience for our customers and us alike.

• On-sites and off-sites: We conduct company-wide 4x off/on-sites per year.

• The tools you need: We provide the best equipment for you to excel at your work.

• Flexible working hours: We value focus time. Encouraging everyone to minimise fixed meetings and leverage asynchronous communication.