Senior Backend Engineer (d/f/m)

Paymenttools is on a mission to transform the payment landscape for retailers in Europe. With more than 4,4 billion visitors per year in our more than 15,000 REWE Group stores and travel agencies in 21 countries we know exactly what consumers and merchants need when exchanging goods for money. We strongly believe in making payments seamless and invisible, linking them with value added services within the framework of a reliable identity service. Our mantra: #wesolvepayn. We blend cutting-edge technology with stringent security to protect sensitive payment data while nurturing innovation in a cloud-native tech environment.

You will join the team responsible for the core POS Acceptance domain , simplifying the complexity of our external payment integrations for the rest of the organization.
This role is for a hands-on engineer and technical anchor. You love coding and solving challenging problems, but you also take responsibility for mentoring the team, shaping architecture, and ensuring technical quality. You will own key components, bring structure to a growing system landscape, and help anchor technical ownership within the team.

Your tasks

• Design, build, and evolve backend services in a complex distributed systems landscape
• Independently drive technical solutions from problem definition to implementation
• Contribute to architecture and system design decisions within the team domain
• Improve existing systems with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational excellence
• Take ownership of technical initiatives across teams and drive implementation through code, design reviews, and hands-on collaboration
• Collaborate closely with engineers, architects, and adjacent teams on cross-functional technical topics
• Communicate technical trade-offs and implementation decisions clearly and pragmatically
• Support other engineers through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance
• Share knowledge, provide feedback, and support peers while helping maintain high engineering standards
• Contribute to engineering best practices, observability, and continuous improvement within the team
• Improve developer workflows by enhancing CI/CD, testing, observability, and internal tooling
• Operate effectively in ambiguous environments and proactively identify technical improvement opportunities

Your experience

• Several years of solid experience in backend engineering, ideally in high-throughput or regulated systems
• Passion for coding, with deep knowledge of Java and/or Kotlin (JVM) and frameworks like Spring / Spring Boot
• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and API design
• Proven experience in architectural decisions and system design at a senior level
• Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts clearly and align teams and stakeholders
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS or GCP) and Docker/Kubernetes
• Knowledge of CI/CD, monitoring, and system operations (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Solid understanding of security concepts (authN/authZ, encryption, secure data handling)
• Strong experience with relational databases, ideally complemented by NoSQL
• Curiosity for emerging technologies, e.g., AI-driven development or systems
• Experience with concurrency and parallelism is a plus
• Fluent English; German skills are a plus

Our Benefits

• Deutschland ticket, subsidized subscription
• 1.000 euro annual learning and development budget + internal training platforms
• Discounts on travel, fashion, technology, and more through our corporate benefits
• REWE discount card for discounts for REWE group retailers
• JobRad, affordable bicycle leasing!
• Company pension plan
• Insurance Services

Perks of working with us

• We work in a hybrid environment
• Flexible working hours that fit your workflow, your time matters!
• Language courses (English and German)
• Responsibility from day one
• Work with modern and agile software such as Google Workspace, Slack, Asana, Jira, Lattice, Miro and Confluence
• Company events including Hackathons and Company Days (ask us more about these!)

We are looking forward to getting to know you - so, even if you feel that you don’t quite meet all the requirements, but the position still excites you and you think you would love to work with us, please reach out! We would still love to hear from you. We explicitly encourage applicants within groups that are underrepresented in tech spaces as of today. We value all kinds of backgrounds and walks of life.