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lemon.markets · 2 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer (f/m/x)

Germany (Hybrid)

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

lemon.markets is a company focused on empowering investors by providing seamless access to capital markets through their Brokerage-as-a-Service platform. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design backend services and architecture for their brokerage API platform, ensuring reliability and scalability while taking ownership of features and services in cross-functional teams.

Developer APIsEnterprise ApplicationsFinancial ServicesFinTechTrading Platform

Responsibilities

Design the backend services and architecture of our brokerage API platform

Take ownership of features and services end to end in cross-functional teams, ensuring they run smoothly on production

Focus on areas of the Customer Lifecycle, Order Lifecycle or Post-Trade processes, making sure our Core Platform & Systems are reliable & scalable

Work alongside a cross-functional team of experts to build the investment infrastructure for the next 100 million retail investors in Europe

Qualification

PythonAWSREST APIsPostgreSQLScalable architectureProblem-solvingTeam playerMentorship

Required

You have the ability to write well-structured and tested code in more than one high-level programming languages like Python, Golang, Java or Ruby, plus another language such as Javascript or Typescript

You have experience in designing and implementing highly scalable architecture and reliable REST APIs and bring the desire to make them world-class

You've gained good experience with software in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure) and the architectural patterns for this environment

You have a good understanding of more than one document-based or relational database technology such as MySQL/PostgreSQL or MongoDB

You know how to write high-quality code that is understandable, maintainable and well tested, and can guide other engineers to do the same via code reviews

You have good problem-solving skills and the ability to provide in-depth evaluations and analyses of unique and complex technological issues

You have a track record of designing, building and operating reliable and scalable backend systems as part of a cross-functional team

Preferred

Having worked prior in a Fintech or financial Service provider would give you a head start, but is not a must

You see yourself as a product engineer. That means, you are excited by solving customer problems and strive to become an expert in the domain area you are working in

You enjoy building from scratch. This means high involvement in the product development process itself while advocating for the best engineering practices. It also means that you enjoy taking technical decisions

You are ready and willing to take ownership of problems and act on them decisively with no supervision. You always thrive for high quality outcomes through focus, determination and attention to detail

You are a team player. Working together as a team, sharing knowledge & providing mentorship comes naturally to you. Long term - you consider becoming a team lead

You have no problem with learning new technologies on the go. You try to solve problems with more things than the ones you already know. We will always enable you with that, but your willingness has to come first

You understand what working in a startup or a similar lean organisation is like. You are able to work with a small team in a lean environment, can move quickly and focus on what's truly important