Senior Backend Engineer

MODIFI is a global FinTech company that enables cross-border commerce through a digital platform for B2B payments. With MODIFI, exporters get paid instantly, while their buyers have the option to pay later. Our clients also get access to powerful tools that help them trade internationally. We empower businesses to grow, fostering strong international partnerships and benefitting local economies.

Come and shape the future of global commerce with MODIFI!

We are currently looking for an experienced Java engineer to join our existing team and shape the future of global commerce with MODIFI!

Your impact:

• Create, extend and test microservices written in Java / Spring Boot, using a variety of related technologies
• Write clean and maintainable code following best practices , that your colleagues love to read and easily enhance
• Analyze non-technical requirements and discuss your own technical solutions with the team
• Initiate, participate in, and communicate technical architecture designs
• Work closely with Frontend Engineers and Product Managers in order to build best in class products for our customers
• Extend and advance the data model
• You enrich the team with your competencies in agile software engineering methodology and your experience with microservices-based architectures
• Your role will be crucial in influencing the platform's direction, with the potential to impact customers, stakeholders, and your fellow team members.
• Take full ownership and responsibility for your code throughout the whole software development lifecycle (you build it, you run it, you own it!)
• Rapidly fix bugs that occur in production

This is an hybrid onsite position for our Berlin-based team.

• You have experience of 4-7 years in software development.
• You have been professionally engaged in developing, maintaining and deploying microservice-based applications written in Spring Boot for at least 4 years
• You are an expert in Java 8 (or newer versions) and you have sound knowledge and experience in clean design of modern REST APIs
• Strong foundation in software engineering principles, including CI/CD pipelines, version control (e.g., Git), Java, automated testing (e.g., JUnit and Mockito), and data management with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
• During your previous roles, you have gained robust knowledge with Spring Data, data modeling and SQL databases
• Nice-to-have: Ideally, your Java development skills are supplemented by experience in working with asynchronous / event driven systems
• Working as part of a team is in your DNA: You count on your team to support you. At the same time your team can count on you. Anytime!
• You are thrilled to work in fast pace, zero-politics environments in which you learn a lot and make an impact
• You are fluent in English