Backend Developer

At Lendo, we’re driven by a clear mission: to empower people to make smarter financial decisions. Our work directly impacts how users understand and navigate complex financial journeys, and we take that responsibility seriously.
We build our success on a culture where we live by our core values: customer centric, win as a team, focus on execution, and always improve. We are convinced that it is diverse perspectives, differences, and a strong collective drive that allow us to continue evolving. We are always looking for colleagues who wants to grow together with us.
About the role
Youʼll join a cross-functional, open-minded, and agile product team responsible for building and evolving Lendoʼs digital experience. Youʼll work on the scalable backend services that power the user journeys central to our platform.
As a Backend Engineer, you will:

Design, build, and optimize scalable Go microservices

Take end-to-end ownership of the backend architecture

Write tests and clean, maintainable code that ensures quality and reliability

Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver value fast

Identify and track key metrics to understand system performance and drive improvements

Continuously experiment, learn, and share knowledge with your team

Bring your ideas to life, whether through innovation days, tech talks, or new product initiatives

About you
We believe that you have:

5+ years of hands-on backend development experience, including building and maintaining production systems

Strong skills in at least one backend language, ideally Go, but we know great engineers can learn quickly

A deep care for code quality, rigorous testing, and system scalability Solid hands-on experience working with tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and GitHub

Actions (or similar CI/CD systems)

A quality mindset where teamwork, reviews, and clean code are natural to you

Pragmatic decision-making; you understand trade-offs and how to collaborate across disciplines

We seek collaborative and curious engineers who understand the whole system and proactively solve systemic issues. Our scalable backend uses Go microservices and AMQP for asynchronous messaging. We are cloud-native, leveraging Docker and Kubernetes on GCP, with continuous support from our CI/CD pipelines.
As part of our recruitment process, we use psychometric testing through HI Assessments. We also perform a mandatory background check on all final candidates. We will always inform you as a candidate before the check is carried out.
We look forward to your application!