Backend Engineer

 TransferGo is a growing fintech scale-up on a mission to make the world a fairer place for migrants. We strive to provide tailored, more affordable financial services that make people's hard-earned money go further. Now in our 12th year, with over 370 employees in offices across Europe, we’re crafting a brilliant, relevant product that makes a difference in people's lives and the well-being of their families. 

We’ve come this far by building a talented, diverse workforce on a fair culture and our strong values. Having this strong team of employees, we can serve those who really need our product to make their lives better. 

We are looking for an ambitious and bright engineer eager to build and run services for moving money across the globe. You’ll be joining our Crime Fighting tribe, responsible for keeping both our customers and the company safe. You’ll have a chance to help us build innovative solutions in fraud prevention, risk modeling, and anti-money laundering. If you're looking for a company where you can grow fast both professionally and personally, you might have just found one!

As a Backend Engineer, you will:

• Design, build and operate services in a cloud-native, service-oriented environment, which will be used by multi-platform applications and hundreds of thousands of users
• Enjoy a great level of end-to-end autonomy, contributing to system design, implementation approach and production operations of your services. We truly believe in the “Builders mindset”
• Work closely with product managers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to build modern and scalable software
• Work in a team of strong professionals - a great chance to learn from senior software engineers, engineering and product managers

Here are some of our core tools helping us to get the job done:

• Runtime: PHP 7/8, Symfony
• Infrastructure: AWS, SNS/SQS, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD: Github, Jenkins
• Data: MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, S3
• Test: phpspec, Behat, PHPUnit

Please take a look at our tech stack in detail on: https://stackshare.io/transfergo/transfergo

It would be awesome if:

• You have 2 years of experience in delivering quality software solutions
• You have experience with microservice architecture
• You worked with large-scale distributed and event-driven systems
• You have deployed backend applications at scale, with AWS or a similar provider
• You enjoy building products used by people
• You are a good communicator and can use English effectively at work
• You are enthusiastic about technology and best engineering practices
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and are willing to help us find the best solutions
• You are passionate about growing your knowledge in scaling fintech companies

What we believe

At TransferGo, we offer competitive rewards to all our people. We know that recognition is about more than just money, and we’ve fostered a culture of kudos to shine a light on the great work throughout the business, and the people making it all happen. We hold regular in person events to connect with each other and help all our TransferNauts to grow with a generous training allowance. We believe that empowering people makes for a happier and more effective workforce. This means we enable anyone who wants to pursue initiatives that deliver real value for our migrant customers. 

What we offer:

• Be part of building a meaningful product in a growing fintech scale-up
• A competitive rewards package
• Generous holiday allowance (based on tenure)
• Competitive healthcare insurance / wellbeing package (based on your location)
• An annual training budget of €1,000 to spend on your growth
• We truly embrace flexibility and take a hybrid approach to our working style. Most of our team members come into their local office 2 days a week
• If you are near one of our offices, we are a pet-friendly company and we enjoy regular opportunities to connect in person (we truly value in person connection on a regular basis and celebrate in style)

Monthly salary starting from 3600 € (gross) depending on the level of experience.