Senior Backend Software Engineer (Python)

Job summary
Permanent contract
Berlin
Occasional remote
Salary: Not specified
Experience: > 5 years
Skills & expertise
FastAPI
GraphQL
Kubernetes
Terraform
Datadog
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Job description

  • Risk Engineering builds the systems that decide which subscription orders Grover approves, declines, reviews or verifies, in real time, across four markets and for both consumers and businesses
  • As a Senior Software Engineer, you report to the Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering, and join a small, senior team that owns its services end to end
  • You work closely with risk analysts, data scientists, and product to grow approval rate while keeping fraud and defaults in check
  • Our risk decisioning platform: the rule engine, experiments and decision APIs (FastAPI, GraphQL federation) that every Grover order passes through
  • New risk products, starting with dynamic pricing and counter offers, from design to production
  • Integrations with credit bureaus and identity, fraud and AML providers, built to stay reliable when vendors are not
  • Event-driven flows on Kafka for decisions, manual review, ID verification and bank-account checks, correct under retries, duplicates and race conditions
  • Tools for our risk analysts: the manual review experience and our LLM-powered risk assistant on AWS Bedrock
  • Reliability and observability of your services: Datadog monitors, on-call, runbooks and removing legacy dependencies
  • The Grover Way - How We Drive Success:
  • Own It: We take ownership seriously and define what success looks like. We drive shared ownership and don’t wait - we drive. We keep one another accountable and take responsibility when issues arise
  • Challenge, Decide, and Commit: We engage in proactive support, active listening, and healthy conflict to reach the best outcomes. We value diverse perspectives and, once a decision is made, we commit to it fully
  • Empower and Grow: We enable, trust, and coach one another toward high performance, always thinking and acting like owners. We seek growth, apply feedback, and support the development of our peers
  • Respect, Transparency, and Clarity: We strive for clear, respectful, and open communication with no surprises. We simplify complex information so everyone knows the “what, why, and how”

Benefits

  • Fully-remote/hybrid work structure. Office? Remote? Figure out the balance that works best for you
  • Online German Language Courses for all levels
  • Learning budget
  • Entrepreneurial responsibilities and upward career growth
  • Working for a market leader
  • Visit our engaging, open offices located in Berlin, Lisbon and Miami
  • Diverse global team of 65+ nationalities (and counting)! Genuinely the nicest group of colleagues who will soon become friends
  • Team events, Grover tech discounts, and expanding company perks

Preferred experience

  • Treat testing as a core part of development; be comfortable writing unit and end-to-end tests and owning the quality of what you ship
  • Be comfortable with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, and able to work with Terraform
  • Bonus points: Fintech, payments, lending, fraud or credit-risk experience; rule engines or ML in production; LLM tooling; Rust, Rails or Vue; German
  • Have owned services in production and managed their full lifecycle, from cross-service debugging to monitoring
  • Have hands-on experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka and with PostgreSQL
  • Enjoy working with non-engineers, explain technical trade-offs simply, and stay calm when priorities shift
  • Care about the “why” behind the code, keeping the end user and business impact in mind
  • Have experience designing REST and/or GraphQL APIs and integrating third-party APIs
  • Be comfortable participating in an on-call rotation
  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with Python in production as your main language, and comfort working 90% on the backend and 10% on the frontend

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