Senior Backend Software Engineer (Python)

Grover; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Fully-remote/hybrid work structure

German language courses

Learning budget

Growth opportunities

Office Berlin, Lisbon, or Miami

Zusammenfassung

Grover is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Risk Engineering to own the risk decisioning services end to end. You’ll work closely with risk analysts, data scientists, and product to improve approval rates while controlling fraud and defaults.

Lead the implementation of the risk platform (FastAPI, GraphQL). You’ll build integrations with credit bureaus and identity providers and own event-driven flows with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS, while contributing to reliability and

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Production Python in main language.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Familiar with REST/GraphQL APIs and third-party integrations.
• Comfortable with on-call rotation.

Aufgaben

• Own risk-engineering services end to end.
• Collaborate with risk analysts, data scientists, and product.
• Design and operate APIs and integration points.
• Support reliability, monitoring, and incident response.

Kenntnisse

Python

Backend engineering

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

FastAPI

Jobbeschreibung

• Risk Engineering builds the systems that decide which subscription orders Grover approves, declines, reviews or verifies, in real time, across four markets and for both consumers and businesses
• As a Senior Software Engineer, you report to the Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering, and join a small, senior team that owns its services end to end
• You work closely with risk analysts, data scientists, and product to grow approval rate while keeping fraud and defaults in check
• Our risk decisioning platform: the rule engine, experiments and decision APIs (FastAPI, GraphQL federation) that every Grover order passes through
• New risk products, starting with dynamic pricing and counter offers, from design to production
• Integrations with credit bureaus and identity, fraud and AML providers, built to stay reliable when vendors are not
• Event-driven flows on Kafka for decisions, manual review, ID verification and bank-account checks, correct under retries, duplicates and race conditions
• Tools for our risk analysts: the manual review experience and our LLM-powered risk assistant on AWS Bedrock
• Reliability and observability of your services: Datadog monitors, on-call, runbooks and removing legacy dependencies
• The Grover Way - How We Drive Success:
• Own It: We take ownership seriously and define what success looks like. We drive shared ownership and don’t wait - we drive. We keep one another accountable and take responsibility when issues arise
• Challenge, Decide, and Commit: We engage in proactive support, active listening, and healthy conflict to reach the best outcomes. We value diverse perspectives and, once a decision is made, we commit to it fully
• Empower and Grow: We enable, trust, and coach one another toward high performance, always thinking and acting like owners. We seek growth, apply feedback, and support the development of our peers
• Respect, Transparency, and Clarity: We strive for clear, respectful, and open communication with no surprises. We simplify complex information so everyone knows the “what, why, and how”

Benefits

• Fully-remote/hybrid work structure. Office? Remote? Figure out the balance that works best for you
• Online German Language Courses for all levels
• Learning budget
• Entrepreneurial responsibilities and upward career growth
• Working for a market leader
• Visit our engaging, open offices located in Berlin, Lisbon and Miami
• Diverse global team of 65+ nationalities (and counting)! Genuinely the nicest group of colleagues who will soon become friends
• Team events, Grover tech discounts, and expanding company perks

Treat testing as a core part of development; be comfortable writing unit and end-to-end tests and owning the quality of what you shipBe comfortable with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, and able to work with TerraformBonus points: Fintech, payments, lending, fraud or credit-risk experience; rule engines or ML in production; LLM tooling; Rust, Rails or Vue; GermanHave owned services in production and managed their full lifecycle, from cross-service debugging to monitoringHave hands-on experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka and with PostgreSQLEnjoy working with non-engineers, explain technical trade-offs simply, and stay calm when priorities shiftCare about the “why” behind the code, keeping the end user and business impact in mindHave experience designing REST and/or GraphQL APIs and integrating third-party APIsBe comfortable participating in an on-call rotation5+ years of backend engineering experience, with Python in production as your main language, and comfort working 90% on the backend and 10% on the frontend