Backend Engineer

Make a difference in the financial life of millions of people: At Erste Digital you are co-creating the digital future, in which better financial health is possible. #believeinyourself

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 (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Croatia). We build the shared frameworks, libraries, tooling and services that every product team relies on, so they can focus on banking features instead of reinventing boilerplate. On top, we direct how George Architecture evolves. Our work spans the backend and frontend  and mobile frameworks, CI/CD automations, observability, and developer tooling as well as Platform services that keeps hundreds of engineers productive and George reliable at scale.

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.