Senior Backend Engineer - Germany (d, f, m)

Your mission

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping and enhancing our customer-facing applications. On one side, you’ll empower small- and medium-sized business owners to better understand their finances and access competitive financial products.

On the other, you’ll help banks utilize customer data to offer the right financial products at the right time. Your main focus will be hands-on backend engineering, driving the robustness and scalability of these critical platforms.

Your role and contribution

• Coding : Actively contribute to the codebase, developing features and solving complex technical challenges
• Ensure Delivery : Process the entire software delivery, from coding to deployment, ensuring deadlines are met without compromising quality
• Collaboration : Connect closely with product managers and other stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals and collaborate with frontend engineers, DevOps, and other technical teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment
• Documentation : Ensure that all processes and code are thoroughly documented for future reference and knowledge sharing
• Drive Collaboration : Actively participate in team discussions, code reviews, and brainstorming sessions to promote a culture of shared ownership and continuous improvement.

Your profile

Minimum 8 years of experience in software engineering

Strong expertise in backend development with Python

Proven ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance systems

Experience with databases like PostgreSQL, Redis (or similar), Kafka (or similar)

Strong skills building APIs

Microservices architecture; Event Based; CQRS; SOLID; Asyncronous System

Self-starter : Highly motivated with the ability to work independently and take initiative

Collaborative : Strong team player with excellent communication skills

Adaptable : Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, balancing speed and quality

Fluent in English

Willing to travel occasionally to Berlin and / or Eschborn

Our benefits

• Educational budget of up to 1.500 Euros per year to enhance your professional knowledge and skills
• A space to express yourself - shape this role and your work according to what you think works best for your development and company success
• A hybrid work environment - we have locations in Eschborn (near Frankfurt) and Berlin to come together to collaborate. The rest of the time enjoy the flexibility of remote work
• An exciting mix of cultures - yes, multiple nationalities coming together to serve small business owners AND a mix of speedy and scrappy startup action as well as an established brand to have our backs
• An opportunity to make a difference - in the lives of small business owners and in shaping the way we work, what benefits to establish and how we celebrate each other

About us

We are VR Smart Guide - we enable entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals to follow their real passion by continuously & proactively managing their liquidity situation and taking the administrative workload from them.

Based on our understanding of the SME’s business situation, we proactively offer pre-checked financial products to solve business challenges before they even appear or to make use of potentials before they are realized.

What problem do we want to solve?

For many small businesses managing finances is a necessary evil. As a consequence, they are lacking a holistic overview of their liquidity situation and often miss out of the potential of financial products.

When they wantr to finally unlock this potential, they experience long waiting times and manual interactions with financial institutions.

On the other hand, traditional banks are not well prepared for the needs of small businesses and lack adequate features and capabilities to serve this customer segment in a digital and profitable manner.

The innovation

We accompany small businesses in their day-to-day business by providing a continuous overview of their liquidity situation, proactively providing pre-checked financial product offerings that help to avoid liquidity problems before they even emerge.

For banks, we provide relevant insights into the most recent business situation of their SME customer base to streamline their sales processes.

This is u s

Behind the VRSG is a multidisciplinary, heterogeneous team that, with a lot of passion and drive, does everything it can every day to solve real everyday problems for small companies and the self-employed.

The feeling of actually being able to make a difference contributes a lot to the special team spirit in the VRSG.

For us, it goes without saying that we support each other in our personal development in order to be successful together as a team.

We don't always have to be in one place for this, but our office is the central meeting place where innovation and something special happens.

We are looking for you!

Would you like to strengthen our team?