Senior Backend Engineer – Product & Tech to Lendo

About this job

Build the backend that makes finance simpler. Do you want to build scalable backend solutions powering digital products used by millions of customers? As a Senior Backend Engineer at Lendo, you’ll help build and evolve the services behind key customer journeys. You’ll join a cross-functional product team with real ownership – from design and development to release, maintenance and continuous improvement.Lendo is a successful fintech company with a strong financial position, ambitious plans and a modern Product & Tech organization. We continuously develop our offering and explore new products and technologies. You’ll work from our modern office in central Stockholm, with a social environment, snacks and barista as part of everyday life. The Opportunity You get real ownership of backend solutions that directly impact Lendo´s customers. You will work with a modern cloud-native stack including Go, GCP, Kubernetes and Docker. You get the opportunity to influence both technical decisions and how your team works. Lendo is entering an exciting phase with new products and exciting product initiatives ahead. You will join a collaborative Product & Tech organization where your ideas and technical expertise can make a real difference. Your Challenge As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, build and continuously improve scalable backend services that support Lendo´s digital products. You will: Design, build and optimize scalable Go microservices. Take end-to-end ownership of backend solutions and contribute to architecture within your domain. Build reliable, maintainable and well-tested services that can scale with customer and business needs. Work with asynchronous communication and messaging using AMQP. Collaborate with Product, Design and other engineers to turn customer and business needs into effective technical solutions. Contribute to technical discussions, architectural decisions and engineering best practices. Monitor and improve system performance, reliability and observability. Share knowledge, contribute to code reviews and continuously improve how the team works. The Team and Workplace Our backend platform is built around Go microservices and AMQP for asynchronous messaging. We operate in a cloud-native environment using Docker, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), supported by modern CI/CD pipelines. Our focus is on building scalable, maintainable and reliable services while continuously evolving our architecture and engineering practices. About You We are looking for a senior backend engineer who combines strong technical skills with a pragmatic mindset, curiosity and a genuine sense of ownership. You have: Several years of professional experience in backend development and production systems. Strong hands-on experience with at least one backend programming language. Go is highly relevant, but we are open to engineers with other strong backend backgrounds who can learn quickly. Experience designing and building scalable backend systems, ideally using microservices. A strong understanding of software architecture, scalability and system reliability. Experience with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and Git. Experience with CI/CD, for example GitHub Actions or similar tools. A strong quality mindset where testing, code reviews and maintainable code are a natural part of your work. An understanding of how to build systems that are reliable, observable and able to scale. The ability to take ownership of technical solutions and drive them forward. A collaborative mindset and an interest in sharing knowledge and continuously improving. Experience with AMQP, GCP and Go is particularly relevant, but we value strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn over having every technology already in your toolbox. Let´s Connect! We have chosen to work with Ada Digital in this hiring process. Their recruitment process focuses on transparency, inclusion and a fast moving candidate experience. And now we want to know more about you – on your own terms! To apply, please fill out the short form, briefly motivate why you are interested in the position, and attach your CV or LinkedIn-profile. No additional documentation is needed. You can then, in real-time, follow your application online as our recruiters are working with it. We work with a continues selection process which means we might hire a candidate before the final apply date, so apply already today! Interested and want to know more? Please contact our recruiter today. We are looking forward to connecting soon!

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