Backend Engineer - Payments Team
Job description
Backend Engineer in Fastned's Payments team, owning the payments domain end to end, from payment service provider and terminal integrations to billing, invoicing and dunning. The role builds scalable, fault-tolerant services that handle 23,000+ charging sessions a day.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Designing, developing, testing and reviewing reusable, maintainable and scalable code
- Working AI-first: using AI-augmented engineering, agentic workflows and AI tooling as a natural part of how you design, build, test and review, with judgement for where AI is a multiplier and where humans stay in the loop
- Taking ownership from discovery to post-production
- Taking operational responsibility for what you build, including monitoring, alerting and incident analysis
- Helping improve engineering methodologies and best practices
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of professional backend experience, with strong hands-on Kotlin and/or Java experience
- Previous experience in the payments domain
- Experience working in agile teams within an international, multicultural environment
- Experience building and operating microservices in production, using REST APIs, cloud platforms and relational databases
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and technologies such as Kafka
- Care about reliability, maintainability and the operational impact of the software you build
- Spot opportunities and problems and pick them up yourself instead of waiting for a ticket
- Use AI tooling as part of your engineering workflow, with sound engineering judgement
- Fluent in English and have an affinity with Fastned's mission
Nice to have
- Experience in e-mobility, energy, charging infrastructure or another operationally complex domain
Your team
Payments team
The team owns Fastned's payments domain end to end, covering integrations with payment service providers and payment terminals, and the services behind payment methods, wallets, pre-authorisation and session payments, billing, invoicing and dunning.
Benefits
- Stock option plan
- Pension plan (fully covered by Fastned)
- Training and development budget of €3,000 per year per employee
- Access to a fully electric vehicle fleet (all charging expenses covered), also for private use
- 29 holidays plus two mission days
- Personalised coaching support before, during, and after parental leave, facilitated by Foundree
- Access to women's health professionals via Flouria
- Daily lunches, snacks & drinks at office locations
- Fun events year-round, Christmas parties and an amazing yearly trip abroad with all employees
- Flexible working hours, full travel compensation and the working gear of your choice
How to get hired
- 1Screening call with Recruiter
- 2Codility assignment and technical interview with our Engineers
- 3Culture-fit conversation with the team
- 4Closing Coffee Chat with our Head of Engineering / Director of Product & Engineering
Apply
About Fastned
Fastned owns and operates a network of 400+ fast charging stations across 10 European countries, allowing electric vehicle drivers to charge their car with 100% green energy in just 15 minutes.
Mission
Accelerate the transition towards sustainable mobility by giving fast charging to electric drivers, with a goal of a European network of 1000 fast charging stations in prime locations where all electric vehicles can charge with renewable energy from the sun and wind.
Key facts
- Owns and operates a network of 400+ fast charging stations across 10 European countries
- Handles 23,000+ charging sessions a day
- Voted best charging network in the UK, France and the Netherlands
- Listed company
- No legacy systems
What they value
- Equity and inclusion