Senior Backend Engineer

SAP Fioneer

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for designing cloud-native microservices for financial services platform. Collaborating with teams to deliver reliable solutions and mentor engineers.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanySeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesMicroservicesPostgresRabbitMQRedisSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Innovation is and will always be the core of SAP Fioneer, and it is the promise of why we were spun out of SAP: agility, innovation, and delivery.
SAP Fioneer builds on a heritage of outstanding technology and a deep understanding of corporate and consumer demands. At the heart of it all it is simple: We bring financial services to the next level with innovative software solutions and platforms.
We are helping companies in the financial services industry to achieve speed, scalability, and cost-efficiency through digital business innovation, cloud technology, and solutions that cover banking and insurance processes end-to-end.
A global company, with rapid growth, innovative people, and a lean organization makes SAP Fioneer a place where you accelerate your future!
About The RoleAs a **Senior Backend Engineer**, you will build scalable and resilient systems that power modern financial services. You will work in a cloud-native environment and take ownership of services that directly impact our platform. This is a hands-on role for engineers who enjoy end-to-end responsibility and technical excellence.
In this role, you will design and operate cloud-native microservices within a modern, distributed architecture, working closely with product, architecture, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions. You will also contribute to the technical direction and help foster engineering excellence across the team.
**What You’ll Do**
- Design, build, and operate cloud-native microservices for our financial services platform
- Develop scalable and resilient backend systems using Java, Kotlin, and Spring Boot
- Own features end to end, from technical design to implementation, testing, and production
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices using modern DevOps tooling
- Mentor engineers and drive quality through code reviews, testing, and best practices

Requirements

What you’ll need

- Several years of professional experience in software engineering, with a strong backend focus
- Deep expertise in Java and/or Kotlin and frameworks such as Spring Boot
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure) and Kubernetes-based environments
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, software architecture, and design patterns
- Experience with databases and messaging systems such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or RabbitMQ

Benefits

Comp & perks

You will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry on an incredibly ambitious project to shape the ever-evolving financial sector. This is an environment where you can have it all — the agility, enthusiasm, and dynamism of a start-up, combined with the established expertise, solid market presence, and extensive customer network of a more established organization.
At SAP Fioneer, you will benefit from a flexible work environment that encourages creativity and empowers you to think outside the box, bring new ideas to the table, and challenge the status quo. You will become part of a diverse and global team that we are proud of and are constantly growing and reinventing. As an employee, you can chart your career path and take advantage of competitive compensation packages and progression opportunities based on merit.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes occupational pension provisions, support for health and wellbeing, various mobility options like bike leasing and transportation allowances, as well as additional perks such as celebration rewards, jubilee recognition, and relocation reimbursement.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaKotlinSpring Bootcloud-native microservicesCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codedistributed systemssoftware architecturedesign patternsdatabases

Soft Skills

mentoringtechnical designcode reviewsquality assurancecollaboration