Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This backend role sits at a high leverage point in a SaaS style product funnel: acquisition, signup, premium tier entry, and ongoing engagement. Work in the Grow and Engage domain typically means engineering choices are tightly coupled to customer experience and conversion, where reliability and latency directly affect onboarding success. The stack signals a modern SaaS backend built around JVM services, Spring Boot, microservices, and cloud infrastructure.
For a SaaS career, the strongest value is end to end ownership across discovery through production operations. That breadth maps well to how product oriented SaaS teams ship, measure, and iterate, and it builds durable skills in service design, data persistence tradeoffs, and cloud native delivery. Attention to testing, documentation, and security also reflects the operational maturity expected in subscription businesses running large scale production systems.
This position fits engineers who prefer collaborating in a domain team with clear product outcomes, balancing autonomy with shared standards. It will suit someone comfortable managing priorities, seeking regular feedback loops, and interested in building maintainable backend systems that support growth surfaces rather than internal tooling alone.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About The Opportunity
You will work in the Grow & Engage domain. This is the heart of the customer experience ranging from the acquisition and signup to our premium membership tiers and the daily engagement of our users. Specifically, within the Acquire team, you will work in teams delivering the newest and most innovative features serving our customers in the best way possible to ensure a seamless entry into the N26 ecosystem.
This is a hybrid role from Barcelona or Berlin.
In This Role, You Will
- Do discovery, design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software in a thriving environment.
- Manage individual project priorities and deliverables while working in a team that enjoys knowledge sharing sessions.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends in technology.
- Propose new findings during our GSDD (Get Stuff Done Days).
What You Need To Be Successful
- Experience in developing software using a JVM language and Spring Boot in large-scale production systems (note: experience of Kotlin would be a plus).
- Sound understanding of microservice architecture.
- Knowledge of both relational and non-relational databases, preferably Postgres.
- Appreciation of working in a modern cloud architecture, preferably with AWS.
- Strong bias for action and getting things done.
- Ongoing appreciation and consideration for security.
- Motivation to write code which is well-tested and well-documented.
- Ability to give and receive open, direct, and timely feedback.
What’s In It For You
- Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors 🚀.
- Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation.
- As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.
- Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
- A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies - all while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, life experiences and family statuses.
- A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.
Who We Are
N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it’s how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use.
We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do.
We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.
Sounds good? Apply now for this position.
Equal Opportunities
We recognize that our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring to our workforce. We strive to build talented and diverse teams to drive our business success and empower our people to reach their full potential.
We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, neurodiversities, and ages. We're committed to creating an inclusive workspace where everyone feels valued and respected, free from harassment and discrimination. If there's anything you need to make the application process work for you, please let us know by reaching out to candidate.exp@n26.com.
Visit our website to learn more about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at N26.
