Come help us make Light the global default for next-gen finance.

This Backend Engineer role

• Building our core Smart Financial Platform further that helps multinational companies manage all of their accounting with AI and a great UX.
• Keeping focus on customer needs while implementing robust and scalable technical solutions.
• Developing and optimizing backend services, APIs, and infrastructure to support our high-performance frontend applications.

Your Qualifications Could Be

• 4+ years of experience building robust backend systems with solid understanding of server-side architecture and API design.
• Strong command of backend programming languages, with the ability to write clean, efficient code.
• Proficiency in Kotlin / Java, JVM, PostgreSQL, AWS
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and DB schemas that scale.
• Deeply care about quality - you actively participate in code reviews, write comprehensive unit and integration tests, and thoroughly QA your work.
• Great communicator who collaborates effectively with frontend engineers on API design and cross-functional teams on system architecture.
• You can commit and ship production-ready code that is secure, scalable, performant, and maintains well.

Bonus points:

• Experience with accounting or companies' finance flows (accounts payable, invoicing, payments etc).
• Building AI-naitive robust and scalable applications.
• You've been thriving in high-growth startups.

Our Tech Stack:

• Hosted on AWS
• Postgres DB
• Kotlin Monolith
• React Frontend

The good stuff In addition to being part of a great team and working in a really fun and innovative environment, we offer:

💸 A competitive salary + potential stock options

🍼 Paid parental leave.

🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based.

🥳 Regular socials and company off-sites (last time was Southern France and next time is in October).

🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you'll help shape a market-defining product.

The famous last words Working at Light means you're embarking on an exciting journey to reshape the future of multinational financial operations. Our cheat-code is that we've built something like this before - and are now doing it again, only better. Our goal is to make global finance effortless and empower companies to make informed decisions.

Join the rocket ship while it's taking off 🚀