N26 operates a fully licensed German bank with a 1,500-person, 90+ nationality team across six European countries. The tech stack reveals a mature, operationally intense organization: orchestration (Kubernetes, Argo CD, Istio), observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), security hardening (Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Fortinet, Cloudflare), and active AI/ML infrastructure (SageMaker, Bedrock, Kubeflow, MLflow).
Notable leadership hires: Head of Growth, Technical Lead
N26 is Europe's licensed digital bank, headquartered in Berlin with offices in Vienna, Barcelona, and additional locations across Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, and France. The company serves retail customers through a mobile-first platform and operates with the operational complexity of a regulated financial institution—managing deposit accounts, payments, credit products (mortgages), and multi-jurisdiction compliance. The 1,500-person team is structured around engineering, product, finance, security, legal, and operations, reflecting both technology delivery and risk/regulatory overhead. Active projects span new payment rails, mortgage automation, container orchestration, and strategic roadmap implementation.
SQL, Python, R, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Istio, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, SageMaker, Bedrock, Kubeflow, MLflow, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Go, Java, and security tools including Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Fortinet, Cloudflare.
Germany, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, and France. Active engineering roles total 20 open positions across senior (45 headcount), mid (24), and lead (10) levels.
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