Software Engineer: Boarding

Team: Software Engineering: Partner Lifecycle

Location: Berlin

Commitment: Permanent - full time

Workplace Type: hybrid

What youll be doing:

Build, test, and operate services within the Boarding platform, following the you build it, you run it mindset

Work largely independently on team-scoped tasks, seeking guidance from senior teammates and your manager on ambiguous or cross-team topics

Adapt quickly when priorities shift, re-plan your own work, communicate impact, and keep delivery moving without needing to be told twice

Take ownership of your commitments: proactively surface risks/blockers, follow through to completion, and hold yourself accountable for outcomes, not just output

Write testable, decoupled, readable code; write tests across the pyramid (unit → integration); use our observability stack to understand and improve the services you own

Participate in incident response for your teams services, using runbooks and systematic debugging; contribute to blameless postmortems

Collaborate closely with peers, other Boarding squads, and stakeholder teams (Compliance, Product, Risk); share knowledge and give/receive feedback openly

Bring energy and curiosity to the team, someone others enjoy pairing with and are inspired by

What youll need to bring:

Self-driven and with a high sense of ownership/drive - you take a well-defined task and run with it

Comfortable with changing priorities; you re-prioritise your own work without losing momentum or morale

Strong sense of ownership - you follow through, and you dont wait to be asked twice

An engaging, inspiring presence in the team - someone who lifts the energy of the room

3–5 years of hands-on software engineering experience, ideally with some payments/fintech exposure

Technical requirements:

Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs

Event-driven microservice architecture (SQS/SNS/Kinesis or similar)

AWS cloud fundamentals (EKS, DynamoDB, or equivalent managed services)

Testing across the pyramid; comfortable with TDD

Observability tooling (Datadog or equivalent) - can read dashboards/alerts and act on them

Nice to have: Terraform/IaC exposure, payments or KYC/compliance domain background, hands-on use of AI tools in the SDLC