Lead Backend Engineer - Conversational Banking

About the opportunity You will be part of the Intelligent, which cross-functional teams power the operations at N26 and in some cases enable other tech teams through a robust platform approach. We are seeking a talented Lead Engineer to join our expanding teams and evolve our product, powered by a microservice architecture predominantly written in Java and Kotlin, using Spring Boot. Our cross-functional teams are passionate about collaboration and sharing knowledge, as well as working with a high degree of autonomy. As a Lead Engineer at N26, you will be encouraged to embrace the latest technological updates and given a platform to work on complex, interesting problems on a daily basis. In this role, you will: Directly impact your team’s tech scope: work hand in hand with PM and EM to manage product technical roadmaps and dependencies to minimise technical debt. Architect & Build: Design, develop, and maintain high-availability, high-performance web applications that serve as the backbone of our internal operations. Foster tech-solid delivery: Drive the team's build-it-ship-it attitude by demonstrating healthy engineering practices, writing clean, well-tested, and well-refactored code with the team, and shipping it into production as often as possible Integrate AI: Implement new features and integrations with foundational models and automation systems to empower our back-office teams. Scale: Optimize, measure and monitor distributed systems to ensure seamless, continuous software delivery. Mentor & Document: Role model engineering excellence through code reviews, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing in multiple ways, cultivating learning and avoiding knowledge silos in the team Lead initiatives to improve our company-wide engineering culture and discover ways to multiply the effectiveness of the team and the organisation Be involved in recruitment and employer brand projects to help make our engineering team stronger What you need to be successful: Enginee