Backend Engineer (Payments)

Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; hybrid

Company

hirify.global operates a European network of 400+ fast charging stations across 10 countries, providing charging with renewable energy and expanding toward 1,000 stations.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, review, and maintain scalable backend services for the payments domain.
• Build and operate payment integrations, payment-terminal services, wallets, pre-authorisation, session payments, billing, invoicing, and dunning.
• Contribute to the transition toward real-time payments and support roaming features as a Mobility Service Provider.
• Take ownership from discovery through post-production, including monitoring, alerting, and incident analysis.
• Work with product teams, Backend Engineers, Data, Design, Engineering Management, and Product Management in a Scrum setup.
• Improve engineering methodologies and use AI-augmented workflows with appropriate human judgement.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional backend experience, including strong hands-on Kotlin and/or Java experience.
• Previous experience in the payments domain.
• Experience working in agile teams in an international, multicultural environment.
• Experience building and operating production microservices using REST APIs, cloud platforms, and relational databases.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and Kafka.
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch.
• Commitment to reliability, maintainability, and the operational impact of software.
• Proactive ownership, including independently identifying and addressing opportunities and problems.
• Use of AI tooling in the engineering workflow with sound engineering judgement; fluent English and affinity with hirify.global’s mission.

Nice to have

• Experience in e-mobility, energy, charging infrastructure, or another operationally complex domain.

Culture & Benefits

• International scale-up environment with work-life balance, flexible working hours, and family-friendly policies.
• Technical stack includes Kotlin 2.x, Java 21+, Spring Boot 4, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and REST APIs.
• Stock option plan, fully covered pension plan, and a €3,000 annual training and development budget.
• Access to a fully electric vehicle fleet for private use with charging expenses covered; 29 holidays plus two mission days.
• Parental-leave coaching, women's health support, daily office lunches and refreshments, events, and an annual trip abroad.
• Full travel compensation and working equipment of choice.

Hiring process

• Apply with a CV and a motivation letter explaining interest in joining hirify.global.
• Screening call with a recruiter, followed by a Codility assignment and technical interview with engineers.
• Culture-fit conversation with the team, then a closing coffee chat with the Head of Engineering or Director of Product & Engineering.