Senior Backend Developer Contract Role:

Day Rate: €350-€380 per day

8-12 month contract

You’ll join a large, distributed backend engineering community and work within cross-functional teams alongside product managers, frontend, and mobile engineers. You’ll play a key role in shaping core financial products, supporting a rapidly growing user base, and delivering high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain backend services aligned with team and business goals
• Write clean, well-documented, production-grade code
• Contribute to service architecture, resilience, scalability, and robustness using Domain-Driven Design principles
• Participate in technical decision-making and mentor other engineers as you grow in technical leadership

Business Tech Stack

• Backend: Go,
• Frontend: React.js
• Mobile: Kotlin, Swift
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes on AWS
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Messaging & Observability: Kafka, ELK stack, and other modern tools

Your Team

You’ll join a large Product Engineering organization, structured into small cross-functional teams across multiple domains, including:

• Customer onboarding, account management, and compliance
• Payments and financial operations
• Platform systems, integrations, and monetization
• Cash flow management and bookkeeping tools
• Collaborative accounting and pre-accounting solutions

Each team typically includes 6–8 backend engineers and owns its product scope end to end.

About You

• Experience: Solid background building user-facing products and working with large-scale, high-traffic systems
• Problem solver: Pragmatic, product-minded, and focused on delivering customer value
• Impact-driven: Motivated by building products used by tens of thousands of users
• Quality-oriented: Strong advocate for testing, clean code, and constructive code reviews
• Curious: Eager to learn, improve, and explore new ideas
• Collaborative: Comfortable working closely with both technical and non-technical partners
• Language: Fluent in English

Hiring Process

• Interviews with a Talent Acquisition partner and future team members
• A remote or onsite technical exercise to showcase your skills and experience what it’s like to work with the team

Please apply or email me at matthew.makranczy@forsythbarnes.com