Fullstack Engineer – Banking Operations (m/f/x) – Berlin, Germany – Full‑time, onsite.
Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment and banking platform with a full banking licence, empowering people across Europe to shape their own finances. With Scalable Broker, clients can invest in stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives, and set up savings plans. Scalable Wealth offers ETF‑portfolio management, and the platform provides attractive interest rates, loans, and private‑equity options. The European Investor Exchange is a retail‑investor‑specific exchange. Scalable Capital is headquartered in Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Milan and London, employs over 700 people and collaborates closely with founding & management team members such as Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker.
Job Description
You will join the Client Technology Tribe as part of the newly created Banking Operations team. The team’s mission is to empower our Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti‑Financial Crime (AFC), and Fraud Operations functions by building the tools and workflows they rely on daily. You will architect and build regulatory monitoring capabilities connected to the Scalable banking platform, enable effective alert handling and block management, and develop case‑management solutions to support efficient investigation and resolution. In this role you will build world‑class capabilities on our operations platform and client‑facing journeys around the domain, improve the technical foundations needed to operate these systems securely and reliably in a regulated environment, and balance rapid production of high‑impact features with rigorous platform standards. You will work hands‑on with modern AI tooling to deliver AI‑powered features with real impact.
Your Responsibilities
- Build and improve high‑quality web experiences that allow efficient banking operations for millions of clients across all Scalable product offerings.
- Work across the stack on frontend applications, backend services, APIs, integrations, event‑driven workflows, and cloud infrastructure.
- Partner closely with the Operations department to prioritize new features and measure the success of releases.
- Contribute to observability, analytics, experimentation and operational excellence across support‑related systems.
- Write clean, testable, maintainable, and well‑documented code while treating security, privacy and reliability as first‑class concerns.
- Take ownership from idea to production, helping the team ship pragmatic solutions without compromising engineering quality.
- Contribute to continuous improvement in architecture, testing, monitoring and developer experience.
- Help shape technical direction, mentor teammates, and raise the engineering bar within the team.
Qualifications
- A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or comparable practical experience.
- Strong backend experience building and operating production services, lambdas, databases and other services.
- Practical frontend experience with modern web application development.
- Strong hands‑on experience with TypeScript, React, Next.js and NestJS, building polished, production‑grade applications across frontend and backend systems.
- Experience with Python, Java and/or Kotlin is a plus.
- Good understanding of REST APIs, GraphQL, authentication and authorisation patterns including JWT, and service‑to‑service integrations.
- Experience working with distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, queues, or event‑driven architectures is a strong plus.
- Good working knowledge of AWS, Docker, Git, CI/CD and observability/debugging in production.
- Experience delivering complex software with end‑to‑end ownership, ideally across internal tooling, platforms or customer‑facing products.
- Strong analytical thinking in both technical and product contexts, with the ability to make pragmatic trade‑offs.
- Clear, open and concise communication skills, with professional fluency in English.
- Experience in regulated environments, support tooling, workflow automation, or operationally critical systems.
Additional Information
- Be part of one of the fastest‑growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on our customers.
- Work with an international, diverse, inclusive and ever‑growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients.
- Be productive with the latest hardware and tools.
- Learn and grow by joining in‑house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual education budget.
- Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining free German language classes.
- International relocation support is provided if required.
- Opportunity to work from abroad.
- Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme.
- Monthly contribution of 50% for the “Deutschland Jobticket”.
- Enjoy complimentary subscription to Scalable Capital’s PRIME+ Broker.
- Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club.