Backend Engineer for George (all humans)

Location: Wien

Working hours: Full-time

Occupational Area: IT

Company: Erste Digital

We are part of Erste Group - the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.

Our George Platform Department is the Engineering and Architecture backbone of George, Erste Group's digital banking platform used by millions of customers across Central and Eastern Europe. We build the shared frameworks, libraries, tooling and services that every product team relies on. Our work spans backend, frontend and mobile frameworks, CI/CD automations, observability, developer tooling and platform services.

We're looking for Backend Engineers to join our team and work on the foundations that power backend development across George. This is a high-leverage, high-impact role for engineers who care about developer experience, clean abstractions, and doing things well.

What to do:

• Evolve our frameworks, work on platform capabilities and services
• Build and maintain CI/CD tooling and automation
• Improve observability and tracing across the platform
• Collaborate cross-team, run PoCs, and share knowledge.

You check these boxes:

Must-haves:

• Strong professional experience in backend development with Spring Boot framework
• Solid hands-on experience with Kotlin
• Good understanding of REST APIs, build tooling (Gradle), and modern CI/CD practices
• A pragmatic, quality-focused mindset, clean code, testing, and clear communication
• Fluent English (written and spoken)

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience building libraries, frameworks or developer tooling
• Familiarity with Kafka / event-driven architectures
• Exposure to observability stacks
• Container / cloud platform experience (Kubernetes, Helm, AWS)
• Interest in AI-assisted development workflows

Why you will like us:

• Real platform impact, your work is used by hundreds of engineers across 8 countries
• A collaborative, blame-free culture built on teamwork, professionalism and empathy
• Room for own projects and ideas, and time to do things properly
• Modern tech stack and the freedom to keep it modern
• Possibility to benefit and learn from our international, talented and passionate community at Erste.
• Interest groups and clubs: take part in discussions and get involved in projects.
• Health Center at Erste Campus with medical services during working hours.
• Employee benefits - Benefit from special conditions for financial services and insurances, supermarkets, clothing stores and many more.
• Employee Referral Program for career opportunities in IT.
• Minimum salary according to the Austrian IT collective agreement: 64.554 EUR gross per year. Actual salary depends on professional and personal qualifications.

The way we are:

Erste Group considers the diversity of its employees as key to innovation and success. As employer it offers everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.