Backend Engineer (Fintech / Barcelona)

Software Engineer Apply A little bit about Flanks 🚀 Flanks is shaking up the wealth management industry by making it simpler and way more efficient for financial institutions. Our SaaS platform is designed to help banks, family offices, and wealth managers get a full picture of their clients' financial assets—all in one place. 💼💡 Founded in 2019 and based in Barcelona, we’ve brought together a team of passionate wealth management and tech pros, all with a shared goal: to change how wealth management is done. Backed by €9.8 million in investment, we’re growing fast, and we’re not stopping anytime soon! 📈🔥 What we stand for: People First 🤝 – our team comes first. We want every Flanker to feel at home, engaged, and part of something bigger. Keep Growing 🌱 – as the company grows, so should you. We’re all about personal and professional development here. Think Twice, Act Once 🧠💭 – we believe in thoughtful decisions, considering the impact on both our team and our clients before taking action. If you’re looking for a place where you can grow and make an impact at a fast-paced, exciting fintech startup, this might just be the place for you! 🎯✨ Tech Team We power the ingestion, processing, and delivery of data for our customers. As we scale, new challenges arise—here’s where you come in: 🚀 Build seamless user interfaces for secure credential storage (UI/UX is key!). 🔒 Handle sensitive financial data with performance, compliance, and traceability in mind. ⚡ Scale our ingestion system to fetch more data, faster. About the role 💼 This is a mid role and we expect experience and strong opinions. You’ll have a voice, autonomy, and room to grow, though you won’t be the main driver of most projects. We’re not looking for a one-person Tech Team—we want specialists with overlapping skills who complement each other. Whether you’re a broad generalist or a deep specialist , we’d love to hear from you if you excel in: 💻 Front-end (SPAs with JS/TypeScript) 📊 Data modelling & DB performance ☁️ Kubernetes operations 📈 Algorithmic & statistical skills 🔄 ETL workloads Your daily focus? Coding, collaborating, and delivering impactful solutions. We embrace modern development workflows allowing AI usage for speed up and help deep problem-solving. You wont just merging code, you'll own it beyond deployment. Our tech stack Python or JS/Typescript on our back-end, using async frameworks and tooling for most parts. Vue and Nuxt in our front-ends. Running on GKE Powered by MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch Also, Github, Github actions, Redis, RabbitMQ, modern AI toolkit for development flows and other usual suspects. Things we'd love to see on you You are a nice person: We don’t tolerate bigotry or toxic behavior—just good vibes. At least 4 years on an Engineer Software role. 💻 Autonomous coder: You don’t need your work double-checked—you’re on top of it. You know your way around collaborating with others using standard tooling (git, github PR's, etc). You are a good communicator who knows how to express problems, solutions and trade-offs. On the other hand, you know how to read and understand job offers. You can triage what's important and what's not. 🔍 Focused: You know how to read between the lines and prioritize what matters most. You can work with both legacy and greenfield code You take ownership of problems. 💼 Wealth knowledge: A little expertise in investments, currencies, crypto, or wealth management is a plus. You live in Spain and are close enough to Barcelona to commute to the office three times x week by your own means. Living in Spain is a mandatory and non-negotiable requirement. You’re fluent in English and Spanish . 💼 Experience matters: This is not an entry-level role. Tech savvy: Familiar with our tech stack—or similar ones. You don’t have to check every box, but the more you fit this, the more likely we’ll be excited to hear from you! 🚀 What we offer 🎁 We offer what we think is fair compensation (from 35K to 50K € per year for this role). We're not on the very top of the market, but our intention is to increase compensation as you grow with the company. You will not be left behind. We believe this is a really nice time to join the project as we'll experience some serious growth and changes during this year. This is a full-time, permanent contract. A non-exhaustive list of perks includes: A full-time, permanent contract. 📃 A cool office between Sants Estació and Plaça Espanya with stunning views of Barcelona. 🏙️✨ Flexible working hours and hybrid work options. ⏰ Paid day off on your birthday. 🎂🎉 Weekly fresh fruit, coffee, and tea on tap. 🍎🍵 Friday happy hours after our all-hands meetings (totally optional, of course!). 🍻🥳 Team-building events to bond and have fun. 🎈🤝 Health insurance and flexible compensation with Alan. 🏥💸 A digital canteen, thanks to Nora Real Food, subsidised at 50%. 🍽️😋 A yearly training budget to keep growing. 📚📈 Note that for this role we can’t offer a relocation package and/or working visa. The hiring process ⚙️ Send us your CV, cover letter, etc. 📧 You’ll have a chat with our HRBP, Nicolás Guilarte . 💬 A meeting with our Tech Team. Technical Test – We’ll send you a take-home test to complete to assess your skills. 📋 Final Interview – Discuss your technical approach. 🧠⚡ Any extra meetings you (or we) might need to iron out any questions. 🤔 We send you an offer! 💌 We aim to keep things moving fast—ideally wrapping things up in one to four weeks. ⏳💨 If this sounds like a good fit for you, we’d love to hear from you. Don’t hesitate to send us your CV and/or cover letter. ✉️🤗 At Flanks, we believe in fostering diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome all applications regardless of race, religion, gender, age, or disability status. 🌈💼 Department Tech Locations Barcelona Office Remote status Hybrid About Flanks Redefining the wealth management industry to make it simpler, seamless, and accessible to more people. Founded in 2019 Co-workers 97