Senior Web Engineer

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 looking for a Senior Web Engineer to join our office in Barcelona, and help add to our inclusive and efficient work environment. You should be looking forward to mentor Junior engineers and working on improving processes.

You will work in the area of “Memberships” on some of the most crucial parts of the N26 experience around our Premium Membership Tiers, offering an unmatched experience to our customers.

You have strong fundamentals of web development such as its languages, security, design, performance and accessibility. You are keen to work closely with other disciplines on a wide range of projects. You care about quality, performance, user experience, and building accessible products for everyone.

You enjoy working in a team and are looking forward to mentoring more junior members, creating a healthy work environment where people can thrive and contribute to N26 products.

We highly encourage people from under-represented groups in tech to apply.

In this role, you will:

Join one of our cross-disciplinary teams to work on N26 projects. There is a lot of exciting work ahead such as improving our great products like Spaces, and enhancing the initial experience for new customers.
Work on a modern unified tech stack with the main components being Express, React, Apollo GraphQL, CSS-in-JS (with Fela) to name just a few.
Be interested in contributing to our extensive documentation and our testing suite (unit testing with Jest, accessibility checks, end-to-end testing with Cypress…).
On top of working with a modern tech stack on interesting projects, N26 offers a generous professional development budget and dedicated time to experiment with new technologies and ideas (known as Get Stuff Done Days). We also encourage engineers to attend and speak at conferences, providing assistance and support to get started on this matter.

Nice to have:

• Experience working with Node.js, Universal (Isomorphic) applications, Express or Redis.
• Recent experience with React.

Your qualification

Background:

Significant experience in developing high quality accessible applications with semantic markup, using JavaScript with a sound understanding of modern frameworks and libraries, such as React.js
Experience working on agile environments.

Skills:

• A strong knowledge of JavaScript (ES2015+) and modern web development tools.
• Caring about quality, performance, user experience and security.
• Experience developing web applications and considering accessibility (WCAG 2.1 compliance knowledge or basic theoretical knowledge)
• Experience with web service APIs working with either REST, GraphQL or both.

Will be a plus

• Actively help yourself (and others) be successful
• Continuously learn and actively improve their work environment and product.
• Eager to help bring together teams in four different countries into a single product.
• Strong call to action
• Give and receive open, direct and timely feedback

What we offer

• Accelerate your career growth by joining Germany’s #1 Top Startup Employer, named by LinkedIn two years running 
• Health & Life insurance, Personal development budget, Spanish language classes, fitness memberships, childcare services, N26 premium bank card, and your choice of a Mac or Windows laptop
• 24 vacation days per year, with an additional day for each year of service - up to 28 days
• A high degree of collaboration and autonomy while working with a group of international peers, getting things done attitude, and access to cutting edge technologies
• Rotating selection of hot and cold drinks and snacks in the office, Friday Celebrations once per month with pizza, wine, and beer, plus a monthly company-wide lunch and learn
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it