Junior Backend Engineer - Data Ingestion

Join the Data Ingestion Team within Platform Engineering to grow your skills building high-throughput data processing systems. The Data Ingestion team is responsible for building and maintaining the pipelines that power the bank's data ecosystem, focusing on reliability, scalability, and clean engineering practices.

What you'll do

• Work under the guidance of senior engineers to develop and maintain backend services for the data ingestion platform.
• Support the team in applying strong engineering practices including writing automated tests, participating in code reviews, and maintaining observability.
• Proactively ask questions, propose small improvements, and collaborate with the team to deliver clean, testable code.
• Participate in technical discussions, contribute to internal documentation, and help maintain a transparent knowledge base.
• Shadow on-call rotations and assist in troubleshooting efforts to learn incident response protocols.
• Learn to maintain and use observability solutions to help the team track platform SLOs and availability.

What you'll need

• 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).
• 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).
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams.

Nice to have

• Working experience in scale-ups within platform teams.

What they offer

• Competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, and wellness memberships.
• Hybrid work: dedicated team days in office plus flexible remote work.
• Premium N26 bank account subscription for you and friends/family.
• Additional annual leave for each year of service.
• Access to cutting edge technologies in a diverse, international team.