Senior Backend Engineer – Fintech Platform
GoDutch
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Amsterdam • Netherlands
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About the role
- Designing and building secure, versioned REST APIs for frontend and partner integrations
- Developing banking and payments integrations, including webhooks with validation, transformation, and event publishing
- Building event-driven microservices using Kafka, with robust error handling, retries, dead-letter queues, and replayability
- Creating event projections and read models optimized for fast, reliable querying
- Owning the full production lifecycle of services on Kubernetes, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and secure deployments
- Applying security best practices across APIs, infrastructure, and data flows (auth, secrets, RBAC, network policies)
- Building systems that correctly model banking domain concepts and handle financial data with accuracy, auditability, and regulatory awareness
Requirements
- 5+ years backend development experience across paradigms
- Ability to choose the right tool for the problem (dynamic for rapid development, compiled for production systems)
- Experience transitioning between language paradigms based on project needs
- Strong problem-solving skills that transcend specific language syntax
- Understanding of language trade-offs (performance vs. development speed, type safety vs. flexibility)
- Great person and team player; you care about others and you like to work as part of a successful team.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with performance based bonuses for commercial roles.
- Flexible and modern work environment from our vibrant office on Rokin, Amsterdam’s fintech avenue, right next door to Adyen.
- Strong team culture and free lunch because we build GoDutch together, with regular fun team events and moments to celebrate wins.
- Real, visible impact your work directly helps businesses save time, reduce admin, and grow. You see the results every day.
- All hardware including laptops, monitors, and everything you need to do great work from day one.
- Fast learning and personal growth in a high impact environment where ownership and initiative truly matter.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
REST APIsbanking integrationspayments integrationsevent-driven microservicesKafkaKubernetesCI/CDinfrastructure as codesecurity best practicesfinancial data handling
Soft Skills
problem-solvingteam playerinterpersonal skills