Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d)

Job description

About Raisin

We are Raisin, a dynamic and fast-growing fintech company that is a trailblazer for open banking in the savings and investments space.

As one of the most successful European fintech companies, we build award-winning marketplaces to help customers gain better access to competitive savings, investment, and pension products.

Combined, our brands Raisin, WeltSparen, SaveBetter and Zinspilot, serve over half a million direct customers from over thirty European markets and the U.S.

Additionally, we partner with more than 400 banks and financial services providers to help them source stable and secure deposit funding and also enable them to offer third-party products to their customers.

We are backed by renowned international investors such as Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Greycroft, Headline/e.ventures, Index Ventures, Kinnevik, PayPal Ventures, Thrive Capital, Top Tier Capital Partners, Ribbit Capital, and Vitruvian Partners, as well as Peter Thiel.

We are headquartered in Berlin, and also have offices in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, London, Madrid, Manchester and New York.

Team

The team is part of the “Deposit Tribe”, which consists of four teams that collaborate closely on the mission: To deliver solutions which enable simple, effective deposit taking banks partnerships that offer best-in-market Deposit products to Customers.

As a cross-functional team consisting of frontend and backend engineers, Deposits Brokerage team builds, runs and maintains the core platform solution for Raisin, enabling the capability to serve our public deposits offering on B2C and B2B channels, receive deposit orders and maintain their state over time.

The team owns the whole lifecycle from design and development through maintenance of the services at runtime.

The team is responsible for the 24/7 runtime support of their services.

Your Responsibilities

• Demonstrate great expertise in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code across the team’s tech stack—mainly Java, but Python as well for backend—adhering to best practices in software development.
  
  Implement new features and maintain existing codebases to ensure high performance and availability.

• Take ownership and implement robust software architectures that meet business needs, particularly in the context of financial applications.

• Drive cross-team projects and discuss requirements with multiple stakeholders.

• Conduct code reviews, uphold coding standards, and contribute to improving the development process.
  
  Foster a culture of continuous improvement and high-quality output within the team.

• Translate product requirements into scalable, reliable, and secure software solutions by providing technical insights.
  
  Ensure that all solutions delivered align with and support the organization's objectives.

• Have in-depth knowledge of all product and technical aspects of the domain.

• Proactively manage technical debt and maintain clear documentation within your team.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers and peers, supporting their growth and promoting effective coding practices.
  
  Lead by example in following best practices and striving for technical excellence.

• Participate in the hiring process through technical interviews and tech challenge reviews.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development.
  
  

• Very strong hands-on development focus.

• You have a track record of leading technical projects and initiatives.

• Your deliveries have exceptional quality in both functional and non-functional aspects (security, scalability, resilience)

• You are an excellent code reviewer and extraordinary pair-programmer

• Proven expertise in developing, testing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable applications using Java, Python and SQL for the backend and optionally TypeScript/JavaScript for the frond-end.

• Previous experience working on projects that involve financial data, such as financial reporting, or integration with financial systems.

• Solid experience with event driven microservices architecture (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, AirFlow, MySQL).

• English is our company language and excellent verbal and written skills are a must

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies

• Motivated by opportunities for growth - no task feels out of reach for you! You excel in a dynamic, fast-paced, high-growth, and entrepreneurial environment.

Join our mission, join our team - and grow with us!

At Raisin, we care about each other and it is one of our top priorities to foster an open and caring environment in which everyone feels welcome and comfortable.

Our culture is strongly driven by our ambitious team, which connects more than 65 different nationalities.

You'll find us in our modern and open office in the trendy Kreuzberg district with a view of the Spree River, ideally connected to public transportation and surrounded by a variety of restaurants and shopping opportunities.

As part of our team, you will benefit from:

• Employee Development Budget of €2,000 and four full training days per year.

• Access to Babbel for continuous language learning.

• Flexible working hours, home office and 30 vacation days.

• A company pension scheme (Betriebliche Altersvorsorge), which we support with 20%.

• Enjoy more than 50+ different sports with Urban Sports Club: We subsidize your membership with more than €20 per month.
  
  

• Do you miss being in the office?
  
  The Deutschland Ticket gets you there, which we subsidize with €25 per month.

• Love cycling?
  
  With JobRad, lease the bike of your choice and enjoy tax savings, plus Raisin covers your monthly insurance costs.

• Hungry all the time?
  
  Snacks, daily fresh fruit as well as drinks provided at the office.

• You are moving from another country or city to join us?
  
  We may support your relocation.

About us

Raisin is the trailblazer in the savings and investment space.

Founded in 2012, the fintech company started by opening the $95+ trillion deposits and investments market of the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States to consumers.

Today, Raisin serves more than one million customers in these three markets, offering savings products as well as investment and pension products.

This makes the Berlin-based fintech one of the leading global savings and investments marketplaces.

Savers get a wider choice of attractive products with the ability to move their money freely.

In addition, financial service providers get best-in-class marketplace solutions for their customers, and banks get better access to retail funding.

Raisin operates its own B2C marketplaces in Europe and the U.S. In Germany, the company offers ETF-based investment and retirement products in addition to savings products.

Raisin works with over 400 banks and financial service providers from over 30 countries

We are backed by renowned international investors such as b2venture, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Greycroft, Headline, Index Ventures, Latitude Ventures, Orange Ventures, PayPal Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Ribbit Capital, Vitruvian Partners and M&G.

At Raisin, we care about each other and it is one of our top priorities to foster an open and caring environment in which everyone feels welcome and comfortable.

Our culture is strongly driven by our ambitious team, which connects more than 75 different nationalities.

In total, we have 8 offices across the world: Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Madrid, Manchester, Munich, New York and Salt Lake City.

We also think it’s important to take the time to celebrate our hard work and achievements together, with events like our yearly summer and winter party, as well as a couple of smaller get-togethers.

Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations