Senior Backend Engineer

About Elinvar

Elinvar offers asset and wealth managers the digital B2B2C platform for their business: Comprehensive, digital, and customized for each partner’s business model. As part of its comprehensive service portfolio, Elinvar includes “plug and play” state-of-the-art API management for third parties, including customer identification (KYC processes), market data and communication providers. Partners profit from the combination of leading technology and the functional expertise of a licensed portfolio manager. The platform’s microservices architecture ensures Elinvar’s partners sustained competitiveness through fast adaptability and continuous optimization.

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Position

• Design and implement our backend services and complex core application
• In order to build an innovative product from scratch work with cutting-edge technologies
• Lead by example and evaluate different methodologies and approaches in development
• Always improve productivity and sustainability with great coding, QA and release practices
• To develop a comprehensive understanding of the key drivers and opportunities within the business, cooperate with a team of product managers, data analysts and executive stakeholders
• Share your knowledge with the team

Your qualification

• Java (SE) specialist with 4+ years experience in back end development 
• University degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Solid knowledge of Object Oriented Design
• Experience with Middleware Architecture or Message Queues 
• Experience in building API based solutions
• Knowledge of SQL databases
• You know all current tech industry trends
• Experience with source control tools – Git, Github, Gitlab
• You love working in agile teams, JIRA and Confluence are no strangers to you
• Excellent communication skills, high proficiency in English

Will be a plus

• Functional Programming
• Kafka
• PostgreSQL
• German language skills

What we offer

• Berlin-based comprehensive, digital and customized solution for wealth managers
• Our partners manage billions and expect excellence. We empower employees to reshape finance and look for talented and dedicated people
• Managing billions, our partners expect only excellent solutions. We empower employees to reshape finance and look for talented and dedicated people
• Our co-founders share enormous industry expertise and together with the team are dedicated to ensuring Elinvar’s long-term success
• We believe hard work and success deserve to be celebrated – both in and out of the office

Our tech stack: the platform consists of dozens of microservices which are mainly based on Java 8. They communicate through Kafka and a GraphQL. Data is stored in PostgreSQL and Couchbase. The services are running in Docker containers on several data centers in a high availability mode, managed by Kubernetes. The front-end is based on React.js. We use GitLab for source control and continuous integration. The development process is based on Scrum with 2-week sprints.

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Elinvar.