Senior Backend Developer (m/f/d)

About the Position

Senior Backend Developer (m/f/d)

Join Gini, a leading FinTech company, as a Senior Backend Developer to shape the future of our backend services.

About the Company

Founded in 2011, Gini is a well-established award-winning FinTech company disrupting the banking, e-commerce, and insurance sector. Our most well-known product is our Gini photo payment software assistant, which is integrated into over 90% of German banking apps. With this and other products, we aim to improve everyone's quality of life by simplifying tedious tasks through automation.

We are very proud to have received several awards in recent years, including "Top Employer 2020" from Focus, "Financial Product of the Year 2022," and "Top Company" from kununu for 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and operate backend services that power our products.
• Build and extend APIs used by our banking and insurance partners.
• Improve existing systems by making them more reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Mobile, AI, and other Engineering teams to deliver new features and technical improvements.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and help shape the long-term evolution of our backend landscape.
• Automate development, testing, and deployment processes through modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve the stability and performance of our services.
• Perform code reviews, share your expertise, and support engineering best practices across the team.
• Estimate implementation effort and contribute to technical planning and solution design.
• Stay up to date with new technologies and bring pragmatic ideas to continuously improve our systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating backend systems.
• Excellent knowledge of Java, the JVM ecosystem, and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and distributed microservice architectures.
• Solid experience working with SQL databases; experience with Cassandra and/or Elasticsearch is a plus.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Good understanding of application security, OAuth2, and Spring Security.
• Experience with asynchronous communication and messaging technologies such as AMQP (a plus).
• Pragmatic engineering mindset with a strong focus on maintainability, reliability, and clean code.
• Enjoy collaborating with others, sharing knowledge, and contributing to technical discussions.
• Live in or around Munich and can join us in our office about once a week.
• Communicate confidently in English.

We Offer

• Flexible working: Mobile working within Germany or from our bright Munich office with two roof terraces.
• Workation: Working from abroad? No problem – workation within the EU, the UK, and Switzerland is possible.
• Flexible working hours: Shape your workday in a way that fits your rhythm best.
• Growth & development: €2,500 net annual learning budget, plus 5 additional days off for your personal development and a monthly learning day.
• Vacation & Sabbatical: 30 days of paid vacation and the opportunity to take a sabbatical.
• Financial extras: €50 net per month on top of your salary or €50 Wellpass subsidy.
• Food: €3 meal allowance per working day in our high-quality employee restaurant.
• Team & culture: Regular team and company events and an open, feedback-driven culture with real team spirit.
• Mobility: Free underground parking and JobRad leasing with attractive tax benefits.
• Equipment: State-of-the-art Apple devices and ergonomic office equipment for productive work.
• Lots of different team events: we know how important team cohesion is, so we regularly organize team and company-wide events and activities.
• Shared feedback culture with purpose: a feedback-driven culture full of purpose and community. Click on kununu and Glassdoor to find out what our employees and candidates are saying about Gini.

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Sounds like the right challenge for you?

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Julia Partusch-Asik

HR Manager & Dog lover

[email protected]

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