Tech Lead

About N26

N26 is Europe’s first Mobile Bank with a full European banking license. We have 2.5 million customers across 24 markets. Our team of over 1000 employees in 4 locations is concentrated on reinventing the banking experience for the digital generation. Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal founded N26 in 2013 and launched the initial product in early 2015. Since January 2015, N26 has been available for Android, iOS, and desktop. N26 has raised more than $500 million from investors including Insight Venture Partners, GIC, Tencent, Allianz X, Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures, Earlybird Venture Capital, Greyhound Capital, Battery Ventures, in addition to members of the Zalando management board, and Redalpine Ventures.

Position

We are seeking an assured Tech Lead to establish, and deliver upon, a shared team Technical Vision which is aligned with the product roadmap that results in big outcomes for our customers.

Our cross-functional teams are passionate about collaboration and sharing knowledge, as well as working with a high degree of autonomy.

As a Tech Lead at N26, you will have the opportunity to play a key role in safeguarding high standards and setting a clear technical agenda within your team.  You will also have a significant impact on the growth of the individuals within this team.

In this role, you will:

• Manage product technical roadmaps and dependencies to minimise technical debt.
• You will champion knowledge sharing, cultivate learning and avoid knowledge silos in the team
• Demonstrate healthy modern  engineering practices through writing clean, well-tested and well-refactored code with the team, shipping it into production on at least a daily basis.
• Demonstrate behaviours that encourage the DevSecOps culture and the pragmatic N26 engineering attitude
• Lead initiatives to improve our company-wide engineering culture and discover ways to multiply the effectiveness of the team and the organisation
• Be involved in recruitment and employer brand projects to help make our engineering team stronger
• Demonstrate behaviours that encourage the DevSecOps culture and the pragmatic N26 engineering attitude

Your qualification

Background:

• Significant software engineering experience in one or more general purpose programming languages including Java 8 or Kotlin

Skills:

• Experience architecting and developing complex systems for CD in a cloud-based environment
• Experience with modern engineering practices such as clean code, TDD, refactoring
• Previous experience leading an engineering team as a servant-leader
• Language Skills: full professional proficiency in English

Traits:

• A love of learning and love of helping others to learn and grow
• A passion for building a diverse and inclusive environment
• A sense of independence and an ability to establish structures or processes to adapt to a constantly evolving domain and environment
• A passion for tech with very close collaboration with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

What we offer

• The starting range for this position starts at 80,000 gross per year
• Accelerate your career growth by joining Germany’s #1 Top Startup Employer, named by LinkedIn two years running
• Personal development budget, free public transit pass, fitness memberships, N26 premium bank card and your choice of a Mac or Windows laptop
• 26 vacation days per year, with an additional day for each year of service - up to 30 days
• A high degree of collaboration and autonomy while working with a group of diverse peers, getting things done attitude, and access to cutting edge technologies
• Dogs in the office - bring your canine companion
• Rotating selection of hot and cold drinks, snacks, complimentary lunch on Wednesdays, plus pizza, wine and beer on Fridays
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it