# Mid/Senior Backend Engineer (Banking)

**Company**: Solidgate
**Location**: Kyiv, Podil
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solidgate/71df2660-c15b-43da-a586-349d951dea17?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_44cb589d-782

## Description

At Solidgate, our mission is to empower outstanding entrepreneurs to build exceptional internet companies.

You will join the Banking team, a small, focused group building financial infrastructure for digital companies that struggle to access EU banking.

Your responsibilities:

- Design and build backend services for corporate card issuance and management, including roles and user permissions

- Integrate with core banking providers, AML systems, and SWIFT to enable reliable, compliant payment flows (SEPA, SWIFT, payout to cards)

- Analyze third-party documentation and translate it into concrete integration and architecture plans

- Participate in product decisions across the full development lifecycle , from RFC and PRD to production

- Improve the performance, scalability, and observability of the system using tools like Kafka, tRPC/Connect RPC, Loki, and VictoriaMetrics

- Hold quality to a high standard: write unit and functional tests, follow security best practices, and contribute to automated CI/CD pipelines

- Collaborate daily with design, finance, and platform teams to ship a seamless end-to-end user experience

Requirements:

- 2+ years of backend development experience (Node.js/TypeScript preferred, but other backend programming languages are considered as well)

- Strong command of SQL , PostgreSQL or MySQL

- Experience writing unit and functional tests (Jest, Cypress, Vitest, or similar)

- Experience building or integrating complex systems

- Proactive by default: you spot problems early, propose fixes, and follow through

- Comfortable owning a feature from first line to production , no hand-holding needed

- Clear communicator: you can explain technical decisions and defend your choices

- Business-minded: you build to create value, not just to ship code

Nice to have:

- Experience with event-driven systems , Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS

- Familiarity with fintech, crypto, or payment system integrations

- Hands-on with Docker, AWS, GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions, Terraform

- Knowledge of API security and vulnerability patterns

Benefits:

- Impactful work: You're building financial infrastructure that solves a real, felt problem , international companies that can't access EU banking.

- Creative freedom: The Banking product is two years old, the codebase is clean, and there's no legacy holding you back.

- Career growth: Middle to Senior in 6–12 months is a realistic path here, with coaching from engineers who have 8–10+ years in fintech.

- Ownership culture: You own features end to end , from RFC to production.

- People worth working with: A small, senior team that writes thoughtful code, does real reviews, and ships things that matter.

- The Extras: 30+ days off, unlimited sick leave, free office meals, health coverage, and Apple gear to keep you productive.

## Skills

### Required
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Jest
- Cypress
- Vitest

### Nice to have
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- SQS
- Docker
- AWS
- GitLab CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Terraform

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