Senior Backend API Engineer – Scale & Own Your Services

Ebury; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Discretionary bonus

Open Source friendly

Training & certification

Job summary

Ebury is seeking a Senior Backend-focused Engineer to join our Madrid hybrid team, building and scaling our main web application. You will own features end-to-end, mentor peers, and contribute to a data-informed, customer-centric platform.

You will work with Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS, in a collaborative, international environment that values autonomy and innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience in modern web apps.
• Proficient in Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, and REST APIs.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS.
• Experience with IAM frameworks and Keycloak.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, cloud infra, networking and databases.
• Proficient in Git and code versioning; English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and scale the next iteration of our platform channels.
• Collaborate with engineers to design services via RFC process.
• Own the products you build, from development to ongoing maintenance.
• Containerise code and add monitoring/alerting for services.
• Write testable code with unit and integration tests.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and IaC tooling.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote technical excellence.
• Be available for on-call rotations when required.

Skills

5+ years software development

Client-facing web apps

English communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Redis

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Keycloak

Git

Job description

Ebury is seeking a Senior Backend-focused Engineer to join our Madrid hybrid team, building and scaling our main web application. You will own features end-to-end, mentor peers, and contribute to a data-informed, customer-centric platform.

You will work with Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS, in a collaborative, international environment that values autonomy and innovation.