Join the financial revolution!

Are you passionate about finance and want to make a real change? Join Kreditech and our team of over 300 professionals and become part of a transforming industry. From engineering, to design, to analytics, and collections, we do things differently and we reward great ideas, team work and persistence.

You will join a highly skilled, dedicated and talented team such as Engineers, SRE, Data Scientist and Product Managers. You will work in a collaborative environment, where you will get the chance to become involved in the data-driven culture and manage its quality. You will be driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional programs.

If you are looking for an exciting new step in your career, with a fun team that likes very much to accomplish a lot and enjoy each other’s company, then you’ve got that here!

Your Role

What we offer

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Design, develop and implement major new features in one of our product teams. Code backend Scala and Java distributed applications and services that survives at internet scale;
  • Implement complex software applications, maintainable, scalable systems capable of handling hundreds of requests a day;
  • Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, specification documented and checked in regularly for continuous integration;
  • Create innovative prototypes and leading edge technology implementation while ensuring deliverables are high quality and meet user expectations and ensure team-wide adherence to software development standards;
  • Effectively manage day-to-day tasks to meet scheduled commitments and maintain stability of existing services and their underlying libraries;
  • Recommend application software solutions based on the business needs and work hard to consistently make systems simpler;
  • Collaborate with other departments (technical and non-technical), such as Product, Data Science and Site Reliability to review features specifications, determine feasible implementations and work together to determine best product designs;
  • Performs across-training and facilitates information sharing among team members. Coach and mentor other less experienced team members, helping them grow as engineers through code review, pairing, and mentoring.
  • Share knowledge and mix with some of the most talented and skilled engineers and researchers in the business from around the globe;
  • Great atmosphere, collaborative and multinational environment, where you will get the chance to become involved in the data-driven culture and manage its quality;
  • An awesome office in the heart of Hamburg with the best views from the city and plenty of things to do close to the office when you’re not at work;
  • We also have the industry standard perks such as free drinks and fruit baskets every day, fun room, great team events, etc.
  • 2-5 years of experience with Scala, Java or other JVM-based languages;
  • You have experience writing distributed systems;
  • You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code;
  • Expertise with SQL, RDBMS design and optimization;
  • Hands-on experience working with functional programming languages;
  • Theoretical foundations as well as practical experience designing and implementing distributed systems;
  • Solid theoretical background in Computer Science;
  • Experience working in Agile development environments, preferably following Scrum methodology;
  • Working knowledge of MongoDB or other NoSQL databases;
  • Strong knowledge of HTTP and (REST) API design;
  • Experience in JavaScript full stack development (e.g. AngularJS and Node.js) is a plus.