Senior Backend Developer

Description

MAJORITY is a groundbreaking all-in-one digital financial service app that includes an FDIC-insured account, Visa Prepaid card, money remittance, and international calling. We are built for migrants, by migrants.

Global migration is a 21st-century reality. Whether people are following their dreams, love or new experiences, more and more of us are leaning towards new environments. Our purpose at MAJORITY is to empower the amazing, the brave, and the talented and help them achieve all of their ambitions.

We believe that everyone deserves the same opportunity to succeed. Our mission is to provide migrants the tools to thrive in their new country. We are a diverse group of people from over 40 different countries that come together every day and we're looking for others driven by the same desire to create meaningful products that bridge cultural and geographic distances.

MAJORITY is looking for a skilled Senior Backend Developer to join our Backend team. This is a full time, hybrid position based at our office in Stockholm, Sweden. Developers may work from home up to 2 days a week.

About our platform and MAJORITY

Our work matters to real people. It shows up in someone's paycheck or the money they send home

We build real-time money movement: card authorizations, risk decisions and balance updates that have to be fast and correct

Our backend is C microservices on Kubernetes, connected through events where every message counts

Our engineers own what they build, from first design to production and beyond

We take on new challenges, not just new features, from new products to partner integrations

To secure high quality code we practice code review and pair programming, we use CI/CD and automated testing

We also have a lot of fun together. We have a lunch run club, play foosball and other games, go to the gym, AWs etc

Requirements

• You take initiative and ownership, and don't wait to be told what to do
• You are always curious and always learning
• You take pride in the quality of your work.
• You consider the whole system, cover the edge cases and test your codeYou are able to reason through the trade-offs and dare to make decisions for the benefit of the organization
• You lead technical decisions and see them through
• You think about the bigger picture: how services fit together and how the system will grow
• You love to share your knowledge and learn from your colleagues
• Basic Requirements
• Experience building and running microservices and event-based systems in production, at scale
• A track record of shipping real systems and supporting them in production
• Solid understanding of distributed systems reliability: idempotency, retries, ordering and eventual consistency
• Good understanding of higher level architecture and design
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Ideal candidate
• Experience with C, Kubernetes and SQL, or similar
• Experience with payment platforms, FinTech, Banking or security
• Experience working with a growing team on evolving products with many users
• Experience building new products with an eye on maintainability and scalability
• Vision for product development and for how a code base evolves
• Uses AI tools like Claude or Codex in daily work
• Happy hacking on new technology, loves R&D
• A degree in computer science
• A pleasure to work with
• If you want to own systems that move real money for people building new lives, alongside a team that cares about getting it right, we'd love to hear from you. Apply by submitting your CV.
• We believe in equal opportunity and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.