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# Backend Engineer - Core Systems

- **Company:** N26 AG
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Relational Databases, PostgreSQL, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Code Testing, Apache Kafka, Microservices
- **Published:** July 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a95286817f6d3e47

## About the Role

* Solid grasp of microservice architecture
 * Comfortable with relational databases, Postgres preferred
 * Experience operating in a modern cloud environment, ideally AWS and Kubernetes
 * Full professional proficiency in English

Nice to have:

 * Event-driven systems with Kafka
 * Payments, ledgers, or other banking/fintech domain experience, * Relentlessly curious - you want to learn new domains like payments, ledgers, and banking from the ground up
 * Product-driven - you understand what you're building and push back when it doesn't add up
 * Self-starting - you unblock yourself
 * You surface issues early and bring solutions, never quietly route around them
 * You favor steady, incremental improvement
 * You share knowledge freely and learn from the people around you
 * You write well-tested code and treat security as part of the job, not an afterthought
 * You give and receive open, direct, timely feedback



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