Software Engineer (Backend) | Satispay

🚗 Work mode: hybrid, 2 days a week in the office (Tuesday and Thursday), Milan

👾 Key tech skills: Java, Spring Boot, microservices, distributed systems, cloud (AWS preferred)

• Design and evolve the most sensitive systems of the payment platform, owning them from design to production
• Contribute to services for bank integrations, risk and fraud prevention, where performance and reliability matter
• Lead technical analyses that span multiple services and produce high-quality documentation (Smart Papers) for stakeholders
• Ensure quality through solid testing strategies and safe rollouts
• Handle incidents and production issues with debugging, monitoring and clear communication
• Help junior and mid-level engineers grow, share knowledge and take part in the team's technical decisions

💰 Salary: €51-66.5k gross per year + stock option plan and benefits

• At least 5 years of experience as a backend engineer on production systems
• Experience designing complex systems or features as the main contributor
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservices
• Experience in cloud environments
• Knowledge of Java or similar languages, with a genuine willingness to master Java, the dominant language in the stack
• Ability to read and comment on Java code
• Fluent English
• In-depth experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Experience with AWS (another cloud provider is fine too)
• Experience with high volumes, performance and scalability
• Experience with metrics, logs, alerting and structured incident management
• Experience working with both junior and staff engineers

You have already taken a complex design to production with ownership, and you can explain the trade-offs and the problems you met along the way. You enjoy helping teammates grow, you communicate constructively in decision meetings, and you take a practical approach: less endless analysis, more systems that work and keep improving.

Satispay is an Italian fintech that makes financial services simple and accessible to over 6.5 million users. It started with payments and has expanded into company benefits, investing and cards, with the goal of building the most loved financial platform in the world. The engineering team runs on cloud infrastructure with volumes growing every day, and values ownership and problem solving. Positions are open across several product domains (Core, Business, Consumer), and Satispay assigns the domain at the end of the process.

• Employee contract, CCNL (Metalmeccanico) national collective agreement, 12 monthly payments (freelance VAT-number contracts are not available)
• Gross annual salary of €51,000-66,500, depending on experience and skills, plus a stock option plan
• 🏥 Private health insurance for you and your family, with psychological support through Serenis
• 📈 Stock option plan
• 🍽️ Meal vouchers
• 🎓 Professional development programs, internal mobility and language courses with Preply
• 🌴 Unlimited paid time off and flexible working hours
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Enhanced parental leave and additional leave for child sickness
• ✈️ Relocation support
• Hybrid: two days a week in the office, Tuesday and Thursday
• Working language: English, Italian is not required
• Process: interviews with Welyk (recruiter and Tech Xpert), then an interview with Satispay, three remote technical steps (Java code review, system design, a chat with the future manager) and an on-site day

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