Backend developer - Stockholm

Are you looking for a role in a fast-growing company where you can take on shaping the future platform? Steven launched in 2018 and already has tens of thousands of users. Now we want to strengthen our team with an ambitious senior backend developer. If that sounds exciting, join us in our mission to make everyones life happier and easier by providing state of the art financial solutions for the social economy that is growing exponentially.

About Steven

We’re a fintech startup based out of Sweden with a developer office in Yerevan, Armenia. In Sweden alone, more than 300.000.000 person-to-person (p2p) transactions take place annually. Users around the world still only have access to pretty basic and very localized payment solutions for solving p2p and group payments, Steven is here to change that. Steven have so far launched a state-of-the-art group payments app and is on a mission to become the best financial solution for the young tech-savvy generation.

About the position

You will join our team in Stockholm where you will solve end user problems by developing and deploying scalable, high available and performant backend systems. Our main language is Java but we encourage polyglot development and value experience from different languages and programming paradigms.

  • Solve end user problems from a full stack perspective together with your team

  • Develop Stevens Backend system.

  • Continuously improve the the code base and the processes around it.

  • Take a joint devops responsibility together with the rest of the team.

Your background

We don’t measure seniority in years, but we believe that you have built your seniority during at least a couple of years experience working as a developer. You speak and write excellent english. You have the ability to identify problems and as a person you are positive, flexible, and solution oriented. In addition to all this you are a team-player with a drive to improve. As for languages or frameworks, we first and foremost like you to have the right base knowledge and that you are a quick learner. However, it is beneficial if you have experience within the following:

  • Java

  • Kotlin

  • Spring and Spring Boot

  • Dropwizard

  • AWS

  • Testing

  • Continuous integration

It’s also a big plus if you have dabbled with front end development and if you have experience with functional or reactive programming.

About working at Steven

At Steven we live by our 4 values, meaning that we are hungry, humble, honest and happy. We value every individual but have a strong believe that the power of the team is exponentially stronger than the individuals it’s made of. As an engineering organization we believe that it’s beneficial for both the company and our employees if we have a culture of continuous improvement where we’re constantly learn new things and having fun.

Besides salary and awesome colleagues you’ll also get free access to online learning tools, wellness allowance and an office located in the center of Stockholm.

Are you up for the challenge? Good! Then go ahead and apply. We will review applications as they come in, and besides your CV we’d like you to write a few lines about yourself and why you’re interested in joining Steven. So please send your application as soon as possible to jobs@getsteven.com.