Senior Backend / Platform Engineer - spotixx GmbH

spotixx is a Frankfurt-based European FinTech building technology for the regulated financial sector. Since 2019, we have grown into a team of 60+ professionals with deep roots in the German and European banking landscape, shaped by years of hands-on experience in fraud investigation and financial crime prevention.

We specialize in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and fraud detection, enabling secure, compliant data exchange between financial institutions. Using data science and AI, we are helping shift the industry toward collaborative intelligence and more effective prevention.

As a self-funded company, we focus on sustainable growth and real impact. With offices in Frankfurt and Wilhelmshaven and strong inbound demand, we are expanding our team. If you want to work on meaningful problems, grow with the company, and be part of a flexible, hybrid work environment, spotixx offers the opportunity to do just that.

Tasks

Build and operate our platform on Google Cloud (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager).

• Own Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, plus CI/CD pipelines and clean promotion across dev, test and production.
• Develop backend services in Python, design clean APIs, and integrate with internal and third-party systems.
• Build production data pipelines on BigQuery: partitioning, cost and performance tuning, scheduled queries, batch and streaming workloads.
• Shape a scalable, maintainable platform architecture with clean separation of concerns.
• Work within security and IAM standards suited to regulated financial institutions: GCP IAM, RBAC and SSO, audit logging, Binary Authorization, VPC Service Controls.

Requirements

• 5+ years in backend or platform engineering, with production experience on Google Cloud.
• Strong Python and clean API and service design.
• Hands-on data engineering on BigQuery.
• Solid DevOps practice: Terraform, CI/CD, containerized workloads.
• Practical depth in cloud security and IAM: identity, access control, audit logging.
• Fluent German (C1 or higher) and fluent English.
• Big plus: background with regulated financial institutions or a comparable regulated setting.

Benefits

What we offer

• Attractive compensation
• Flexible hybrid work model, allowing you to split your time between our office in Frankfurt and working from home
• High ownership and real impact in a growing fintech
• Flat structures and short paths from idea to action
• A collaborative, international team culture

We welcome applications from all qualified people, as diversity enriches us. Your perspective matters: regardless of gender, age, origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. Applicants with disabilities will be given preference when equally qual