Graduate Engineer - Platform Engineering

Welcome to the Engineering Graduate Program at Mollie in Milan with a focus on Platform Engineering!

At Mollie, we’re on a mission to make payments and money management effortless for every business in Europe. We started 20 years ago when we launched a more direct, affordable way for companies to get paid. That provided an alternative to the frustrating, overpriced solutions that banks offered at the time.

Today, we serve more than 250,000 businesses across Europe with an all-in-one solution that simplifies payments and money management. And we’re a 850-strong team of product, finance, support, commerce, and engineering specialists working across Europe – from Lisbon to London.

Our Engineering Graduate Program is designed to provide you with the skills, knowledge, and experience you need to succeed in a dynamic fintech environment as part of the Developer Enablement domain in MILAN.

Developer Enablement focuses on providing a tailored internal developer platform & services to enable Mollie’s software developers to build applications and services to deliver customer value. It focuses on reliability, compute, databases, and the software development lifecycle. By focusing on automation and reliability, we enable teams to build and deploy high-quality applications faster, ensuring they can focus on delivering value to customers.

The 15-month program begins in September 2025 and includes two rotations within our Developer Enablement domain in MILAN: the first lasting nine months and the second lasting six months. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience at one of Europe’s leading fintechs, collaborate with some of the best platform engineers in the industry, and deepen your understanding of Mollie’s business and how to thrive in a fast-paced work environment - all designed to give you the best possible start to your career!

In addition, you will have the opportunity to participate in tech and soft skill training while being paired with a mentor and a buddy to support you through your learning journey.

What you'll be doing

1. Build and enhance a self-service internal developer platform, making it intuitive and efficient for engineers and non-engineers.
2. Learn and apply best practices in distributed systems, reliability engineering, and automation to improve system performance and scalability.
3. Contribute to the SDLC by optimizing CI/CD pipelines, automating workflows, and improving testing frameworks.
4. Explore and integrate cutting-edge technologies to enhance the platform and developer experience.
5. Identify and propose improvements to workflows, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
6. Engage in a culture of learning and experimentation, sharing insights and gaining hands-on experience with modern distributed systems.

What you'll bring

1. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with a 2024 or 2025 graduation date.
2. Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Python, or Java.
3. Strong interest or demonstrated skills in some of the following topics: scalability, reliability and fault tolerance systems, cloud computing, Infrastructure as code, performance optimization.
4. Strong interest in troubleshooting complex issues in networking, concurrency, and distributed systems and a general passion for tackling problems at scale.
5. Experience working in a collaborative environment.
6. Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

Our interview process consists of the following steps:

1. Application
2. Online coding test via Hackerrank
3. Recruitment interview via Google Meet
4. Technical interview via Google Meet
5. Final behavioural interview via Google Meet

If you are an ambitious engineering graduate based in Italy looking for an exciting opportunity to kickstart your career, please apply with your CV in English. We look forward to hearing from you!

*For this role, we do not sponsor relocation and visas.

Benefits

• MacBook
• Birthday off
• Complimentary baby days
• 20 days working from abroad
• 22 holiday days
• Health insurance
• Equity plans
• Referral bonus
• Learning platform
• Work from home budget

How we hire

1. Step 1: Apply - Our Talent Acquisition team and hiring manager will review your application and respond within 2 weeks.
2. Step 2: Screening call - If you seem like a Mollie-in-the-making, we’ll invite you to a screening call so we can learn more about each other.
3. Step 3: Are you the one? - You'll have two or more interviews. And if it's a highly technical role, we'll also assess the specific skills you'll need.