About the opportunityYou 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.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.Architect & Build: Design, develop, and maintain high-availability, high-performance web applications that serve as the backbone of our internal operations.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 possibleIntegrate 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 teamLead initiatives to improve our company-wide engineering culture and discover ways to multiply the effectiveness of the team and the organisationBe involved in recruitment and employer brand projects to help make our engineering team strongerWhat you need to be successful:Quality First: Proven experience in critically using AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Gemini Code, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery without compromising code integrity or security.Technical StackModern backend: 5+ years of experience in building complex distributed systems in Java or/and Kotlin and Springboot/Spring AI.Data & DevOps: Professional exp

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