Senior Backend Engineer

Digital Green B V — Netherlands · Posted ~2 hours ago

Senior Full-time

Skills

backend engineering TypeScript PostgreSQL payment systems payment APIs webhooks reconciliation idempotency concurrency event ordering retry handling transactional data modeling database testing

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A Senior Backend Engineer is sought to own core payment infrastructure for a fast-growing technology company. You will build and operate systems for payment processing, tracking, reconciliation, integrations, and background workflows, with deep attention to reliability, data consistency, concurrency, retries, event ordering, and failure handling.

Highlights

High ownership over critical payment infrastructure, involvement in technical decisions from development through production, and a strong focus on reliability, consistency, and complex distributed-system scenarios.

Description

Role We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of the backend systems behind payments for a fast-growing tech company in Amsterdam. You will work on the core systems that ensure payments are processed, tracked and reconciled correctly, including the ledger, payment integrations and background processes. You will have significant ownership and be involved in technical decisions from development through to production. The role focuses heavily on reliability, data consistency and handling complex payment flows and failure scenarios. Who are we looking for 5+ years of backend engineering experienceStrong experience with TypeScript and PostgreSQLProven experience building or operating payment or financial systems in productionExperience with payment APIs, webhooks, reconciliation and idempotencyStrong understanding of concurrency, event ordering, retries and failure handlingExperience with transactional data modelling and database testingComfortable taking ownership of existing systems and improving themExperience with monitoring, testing, incident response and production operationsExperience with PSD2, Strong Customer Authentication or identity verification is a plusComfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of ownership What do you get A senior engineering role with significant technical ownershipCompetitive salary and equityModern TypeScript and PostgreSQL stackDirect influence on architecture, technical decisions and engineering standardsOpportunity to work on complex payment infrastructure used in productionHybrid setup in Amsterdam: 4 days in the office and 1 day remoteOpportunity to grow your technical leadership and take ownership of critical systemsA collaborative environment with modern tooling for testing, observability, code review and AI-assisted development If you are looking for a new challenge, don't hesitate to apply!