Position listed on behalf of a partner company that manages all applications and next steps.
Partner is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, Money Movement based in Germany.
Responsibilities
Lead the architecture and greenfield development of the first version of a trust accounting platform, defining technical vision, system design, and implementation strategy.
Design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and auditable backend services supporting accurate financial records and reliable fund management.
Establish strong foundations for financial correctness, data integrity, compliance, and accountability.
Develop quality assurance practices, including automated testing, quality gates, and CI/CD integration.
Drive engineering best practices across system design, observability, security, resilience, and production operations.
Make pragmatic architectural decisions balancing delivery speed, simplicity, extensibility, and maintainability.
Collaborate with product, design, finance, and legal stakeholders to translate business and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
Provide technical leadership across teams, communicating architectural decisions and promoting transparency and accountability.
Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, architectural guidance, hands-on pairing, and knowledge sharing.
Ensure the platform integrates with existing products and handles increasing transaction volumes and business complexity.
Monitor production performance, identify failure modes and reliability risks, and improve system throughput, accuracy, and operational stability.
Requirements
At least eight years of professional software engineering experience, including a minimum of two years at Staff Engineer level or equivalent senior technical leadership.
Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language, with experience building and maintaining production-grade services.
Proven experience designing, delivering, and operating business-critical backend systems used by real customers at scale.
Strong architectural judgment, designing systems that start simple and evolve sustainably.
Demonstrated ability to lead through technical credibility, clear communication, and collaboration.
Practical experience with cloud infrastructure and production operations, particularly AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and service reliability.
Strong understanding of system observability, automated testing, security, fault tolerance, and operational challenges of distributed backend services.
Adaptability across multiple programming languages, frameworks, and existing codebases.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, finance, design, and legal functions.
Strong sense of ownership, delivery-focused mindset, and commitment to correctness and high-quality engineering.
Experience with accounting systems, financial infrastructure, ledger products, or accounting principles is a significant advantage.
Hands-on production experience with Go (Golang) is desirable.
Ability to work remotely from Germany while collaborating with colleagues and internal stakeholders across the EMEA region.
Conditions
Competitive compensation: salary packages aligned with market rates in the employee's country of residence.
Fully remote work: flexibility to work from home or another suitable location within your country of residence, with a remote-first working environment.
Equity participation: stock options.
Annual paid leave aligned with applicable country-specific and contractual requirements.
Country-specific benefits: health insurance and pension contributions where customary and available.
Professional development opportunities.
Technical ownership: opportunity to shape a critical financial platform from the ground up.