Backend Engineer - Point of Sale

About Flatpay Flatpay is not just another payment solution; we're dedicated to innovating the market for payment solutions and financial services in the SME segment with our customer-centric and transparent services. We've grown into one of the fastest-growing fintech companies out of the Nordics and Denmark's fastest unicorn company. Today, we're more than 2,000 colleagues across Europe, building products that make a real difference for our customers. We're ambitious, move fast, and like to challenge the status quo - but we also believe work should be fun. We celebrate wins, help each other out, and create an environment where people can do great work while genuinely enjoying the journey. About The Role Our Point of Sale system serves as the central engine of the business. It streamlines the merchant's entire workflow — from order taking, product and inventory management, to payment processing, reporting, and compliance. Some Of The Core Capabilities Include Product catalogue: Organizes how they manage their products, categories, modifiers and inventoryOrder management: Basket, pricing, discounts, payments and managing tables and long-running orders among groups of customers.Hardware integrations to barcode scanners, receipt and kitchen/bar printers and our different Mobile-, Premium- and Basic POS devices. No least manage synchronicity across multiple POS systems at shared locations in realtime.Our reporting suite ensures cash management, end-of-day reports, various sales, turnover, staff, tax and compliance reports that enables merchants to optimize their business and comply with local tax regulations. As our merchants grow, so does the platform. Every new market introduces new payment methods, fiscal requirements and merchant needs. Every new feature increases the depth and complexity of the product. And with our customer base doubling approximately every six months, the demands on scalability, reliability and performance continue to grow. This is a hands-on engineering role with significant ownership. You'll influence technical direction, contribute to architectural decisions and solve the engineering challenges that come with building one of Europe's fastest-growing commerce platforms. What You'll Do As a Backend Engineer, you'll contribute far beyond implementation. You'll help shape technical direction while remaining deeply involved in building products. You'll work closely with Product, Design and fellow engineers to build software that scales across all dimensions: more merchants, more markets, more capabilities and increasingly sophisticated workflows. Your Responsibilities Will Include Designing, building and evolving features across our Point of Sale platform platform.Lead feature and platform initiatives involving multiple engineers, driving delivery from discovery through productionBuild APIs, services, and integrations that enable stock, order lifecycle, sales reporting & compliance reporting towards governmental standards of our markets.Take ownership of features from design and implementation through deployment and maintenanceDrive architectural decisions and long-term technical improvementsImprove reliability, observability, performance, and security across the platformContinuously improving our engineering practices, tooling and development experienceContribute to testing, operational excellence and contribute to a collaborative team culture Who you are We're looking for experienced engineers who enjoy solving difficult problems and helping others succeed. You Likely Bring 2-5 years of professional software engineering experienceExperience designing and operating distributed systemsComfortable working with modern software engineering practices, including testing and version controlCurious, pragmatic, and eager to learn new technologiesStrong communication skills and a willingness to take ownership of your workA collaborative mindset and a willingness to challenge ideas constructivelyA self-starter that gets your jobs done independently or actively seeks help if neededContribute to testing, operational excellence and contribute to a collaborative team cultureExperience within payments, fintech, e-commerce, SaaS, or high-scale transaction systems is a plus You'll be working with the following technologies; we don't expect experience with every technology listed; we're looking for engineers who can learn quickly and help us build great products. Java, Spring Boot, JUnitMySQL, Flyway, SQSREST APIsDomain Driven DesignDocker, Terraform, AWS ECSPorts and adapters architecture Why Flatpay Joining Flatpay means stepping into a dynamic environment where innovation is encouraged, and teamwork is celebrated. Here, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, contributing to our mission of empowering merchants to succeed. With us, you’ll experience an ambitious drive to constantly push boundaries and redefine what's possible. While we don’t take ourselves too seriously, we take our responsibility towards our people very seriously. We welcome driven, low-ego individuals who live our values and want to grow with us. Established in 2022 in Copenhagen with a commitment to transparency, we've streamlined card payments to small and medium-sized businesses. Our innovative pricing model eliminates hidden costs and fees, offering a simple flat rate for all cards with no monthly subscription for our point-of-sale and payment solutions. Operating in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, we're more than just a service provider; we are your trusted business partner. We continuously strive to stay ahead of the curve, adapting our solutions to meet our clients' evolving needs. Ready to be part of something extraordinary?