Job Opportunities API

🚀 Who are we? GoDutch is redefining how business finance should work. Traditional business finance has not kept up with the reality of modern companies. Entrepreneurs and finance teams still lose hours every week to manual admin, spreadsheets, and fragmented tools. We believe it should be faster, fairer, and simpler. A single account that saves time and money, backed by real human support and powered by smart automation. That is the standard we are building, with speed, service, and AI at the core. In just two years, GoDutch has scaled rapidly. We now support more than 23,000+ active business users who process over €2.5 billion annually through our platform. Over the past year alone, we grew tenfold, driven by companies switching to GoDutch to cut their finance administration time by up to 70 percent. Joining GoDutch means being part of a fast growing fintech at a defining moment. We are looking for people with strong ownership, high standards, and the ambition to challenge an outdated status quo. You will help build robust, scalable technology that delivers real value for businesses, while contributing to a more transparent and sustainable financial system. 👤 About the role We’re building a modern fintech platform for European SMEs: business accounts, payments, cards, integrations, and financial workflows. This is real infrastructure that moves real money, built with a strong bias for correctness, resilience, and long-term maintainability. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll work on the core systems and the integration layer that connects us to third-party services. 📈 Key Requirements: 5+ years backend development experience across paradigms Ability to choose the right tool for the problem (dynamic for rapid development, compiled for production systems) Experience transitioning between language paradigms based on project needs Strong problem-solving skills that transcend specific language syntax Understanding of language trade-offs (performance vs. development speed, type safety vs. flexibility) Great person and team player; you care about others and you like to work as part of a sucessful team 🏆 What you’ll work on Designing and building secure, versioned REST APIs for frontend and partner integrations Developing banking and payments integrations, including webhooks with validation, transformation, and event publishing Building event-driven microservices using Kafka, with robust error handling, retries, dead-letter queues, and replayability Creating event projections and read models optimized for fast, reliable querying Owning the full production lifecycle of services on Kubernetes, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and secure deployments Applying security best practices across APIs, infrastructure, and data flows (auth, secrets, RBAC, network policies) Building systems that correctly model banking domain concepts and handle financial data with accuracy, auditability, and regulatory awareness Technical skills required We’re not hiring for a single framework or a narrow role. We’re looking for engineers who have built and operated serious systems in production and understand the tradeoffs involved. APIs & integrations Deep experience designing and operating production REST APIs with clear contracts, versioning, and deprecation strategies Strong grasp of integration patterns : adapters, API gateways, third-party abstractions Hands-on experience with webhooks that are idempotent, secure, and resilient under failure Experience with GraphQL (queries, mutations, subscriptions) and knowing when it helps and when it doesn’t Familiarity with open banking standards (PSD2, ISO 20022, Berlin Group) is a strong plus Event-driven & distributed systems Solid experience building event-driven architectures in production Deep hands-on experience with Kafka or similar streaming platforms Exper