About the Opportunity
We are seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to join the Data Ingestion Team within the Platform Engineering Domain. This is an exciting opportunity for an early-career engineer to grow their skills building high-throughput data processing systems.
Platform Engineering's mission is to provide trusted, performant, and self-service platforms. As part of this, the Data Ingestion team is responsible for building and maintaining the pipelines that power our bank's data ecosystem, focusing on reliability, scalability, and clean engineering practices.
The ideal candidate is an eager learner who is excited to dive into new technologies and solve technical challenges with the support of a senior team. We value engineers who are self-driven, seek constructive feedback, and thrive in a collaborative environment that prizes technical growth.
In this role, you will:
- Software Development: Work under the guidance of senior engineers to develop and maintain backend services for our data ingestion platform.
- Engineering Support: Support the team in applying strong engineering practices including writing automated tests, participating in code reviews, and maintaining observability.
- Proactive Learning: Proactively ask questions, propose small improvements, and collaborate with the team to deliver clean, testable code for our platform services.
- Knowledge Sharing: Participate in technical discussions, contribute to internal documentation, and help us maintain a transparent knowledge base.
- Development Contribution: Contribute to infrastructure development tasks and participate in technical demos to showcase your work.
- Shadow and Respond: Shadow on-call rotations and assist in troubleshooting efforts to learn incident response protocols.
- Observability Support: Learn to maintain and use observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing) to help the team track platform SLOs and availability.
Who we are
N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it’s how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use.
We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do.
We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.
What’s in it for you:
- Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors.
- Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation.
- Come together with your team in the office for a dedicated day of teamwork each week, plus another day of your choice, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work the rest of the time. Some roles may require additional in-office presence.
- As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.
- Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
- A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies - all while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, life experiences and backgrounds.
What you need to be successful
Background and Skills:
- Strong foundational backend skills, with a preference for Kotlin or Java, and a willingness to adapt to the language best suited for the task.
- Exposure to data storage solutions such as PostgreSQL, RDS, or S3.
- Basic knowledge of containers (Docker) and an eagerness to learn Kubernetes.
- Exposure to infrastructure as code concepts (Terraform or similar).
- Interest in learning CI/CD pipelines and modern automation tools.
- Understanding of testing pyramids and experience writing unit and integration tests.
- Familiarity with at least one observability/monitoring tool (e.g., DataDog, Prometheus, or Grafana).
Nice to have:
- Working experience in scale-ups within platform teams.
Traits:
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams.
- You enjoy taking tasks from start to finish and keeping the team updated on your progress.
- A keen interest in understanding how to build high-quality, scalable, and secure infrastructure.
- Eagerness to learn and contribute to building platforms as products.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving, a desire to learn, and an appreciation for clean code.
