Senior Backend Engineer - Core Systems

About the opportunity

Join our Core Systems domain as a Senior Backend Engineer within the GDPR Team. You will be part of the Reporting layer, where all systems responsible for reporting live and breathe. As one of the early engineers in this growing team—currently composed of two engineers with a new PM joining soon—you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our global banking platform remains compliant and secure.

In this role, you will take ownership of the internal platforms used for GDPR-compliant data retention and deletion across N26. This position offers a unique blend of platform engineering and cross-functional collaboration, where you will map microservices to data types and migrate legacy deletion logic into modern, consolidated systems.

This is a hybrid role from our offices in either Berlin or Barcelona.

In this role, you will:

• Platform Ownership: Maintain and evolve internal platforms for GDPR-compliant data retention and deletion.
• Service Onboarding: Onboard teams and services to the GDPR platform, clarifying scope while ensuring robust monitoring and clear ownership.
• Data Type Discovery: Collaborate with the Legal Data Privacy Team to map microservices to Core Systems Domain GDPR data types and retention periods.
• Process Improvement: Migrate and consolidate GDPR deletion logic, such as moving from legacy stored procedures to modern client solutions.
• Support & Guidance: Provide technical and compliance support to other teams regarding GDPR requirements.
• Architecture & Development: Collaborate closely with your Tech Lead on architecting new features and seeing them through to completion.
• Quality & Mentorship: Design, develop, test, and deploy software while mentoring junior members through code quality guards and pull requests.
• Innovation: Stay up to date with the latest trends and propose findings during our Get Stuff Done Days (GSDD).

What you need to be successful:

• Background & Skills:
• Experience in developing software using a JVM language and Spring Boot in large-scale production systems; Kotlin experience is a plus.
• Sound understanding of microservice architecture.
• Knowledge of both relational and non-relational databases, preferably Postgres.
• Appreciation of working in a modern cloud architecture, preferably with AWS.
• Traits:
• Actively help yourself and others be successful by thinking globally and acting locally.
• Continuously learn and challenge the status quo with a strong bias for action.
• Ability to give and receive open, direct, and timely feedback.

What’s in it for you:

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors 🚀.
• Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation. 
• As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.    
• Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.  
• A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies - all while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, life experiences and family statuses. 
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.

Who we are

N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it’s how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use.

We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do. 

We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.

Sounds good? Apply now for this position.

Equal Opportunities:

We recognize that our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring to our workforce. We strive to build talented and diverse teams to drive our business success and empower our people to reach their full potential.

We genuinely welcome and