About Light

Light is a Smart Financial Platform (an SFP; not ERP - read our manifesto) set to make it easy, efficient, and transparent for multinational tech companies to manage their finances.

Come join one of Europe's strongest FinTech teams with people from Pleo, Juni, Google, X, AWS, Spotify, Klarna, etc., who are building a new category.

This Backend Engineer role is focused on…

• 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.
  
  

…and your qualifications should 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.

• Proficient in OO programming languages, such as Java, Kotlin, etc.

• 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 in Fintech.

• Experience with JVM, Postgres, AWS tech stack.

• You've been thriving in high-growth startups.
  
  

Our Tech Stack:

• Hosted on AWS

• Postgres DB

• Kotlin Monolith

• React Frontend
  
  

Here’s what to expect in our hiring process…

1. Short chat with our Chief of Staff

2. Take-home challenge

3. Interview with two future colleagues

   1. Discussion on the take-home challenge

   2. Getting to know each other

4. CTO Interview

5. Offer
   
   

… so a few tips to stand out would be:

• Show us who you are through your application and don't limit yourself to a resume.

• Try not to be generic. Have numbers to show so you can measure impact? Even better!

• Most people can say they wanna work in a startup, but why this one? What are your expectations and what do you specifically wanna learn from us?
  
  

While this is 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 + stock options in our fast-growing start-up.
🍼 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 Lisbon and next time is in May).
💻 A new computer + whatever gear you may need.
🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you'll help shape a market-defining product.

…these are 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.

If you are passionate, have absurdly high ambitions, want to ship fast and have fun, then we would love to hear from you at careers@light.inc.

🚀 Join the rocket ship while it's taking off 🚀