Senior Backend / Platform Engineer (f/x/m)
About the role
Tasks
Build and operate our platform on Google Cloud (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager).
- Own Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, plus CI/CD pipelines and clean promotion across dev, test and production.
- Develop backend services in Python, design clean APIs, and integrate with internal and third-party systems.
- Build production data pipelines on BigQuery: partitioning, cost and performance tuning, scheduled queries, batch and streaming workloads.
- Shape a scalable, maintainable platform architecture with clean separation of concerns.
- Work within security and IAM standards suited to regulated financial institutions: GCP IAM, RBAC and SSO, audit logging, Binary Authorization, VPC Service Controls.
Requirements
- 5+ years in backend or platform engineering, with production experience on Google Cloud.
- Strong Python and clean API and service design.
- Hands-on data engineering on BigQuery.
- Solid DevOps practice: Terraform, CI/CD, containerized workloads.
- Practical depth in cloud security and IAM: identity, access control, audit logging.
- Fluent German (C1 or higher) and fluent English.
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Big plus
What we offer
- Attractive compensation
- Flexible hybrid work model, allowing you to split your time between our office in Frankfurt and working from home
- High ownership and real impact in a growing fintech
- Flat structures and short paths from idea to action
- A collaborative, international team culture
We welcome applications from all qualified people, as diversity enriches us. Your perspective matters: regardless of gender, age, origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. Applicants with disabilities will be given preference when equally qualified.
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