The job in short
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our central release team, with a strong focus on CI/CD, tooling, and application-specific DevOps practices. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in dynamic environments, enjoys building solutions around development workflows, and has a deep understanding of both infrastructure and application-level requirements with a history of working in a Product development environment.
You will play a key role in supporting engineering teams by improving and maintaining pipelines, deployments, and internal tooling—ensuring developers can move fast with confidence. Working closely with developers, QA, and product teams, you’ll help shape scalable DevOps practices that support experimentation, quality, and innovation.
Meet the job
- Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines tailored to R&D workflows;
- Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure smooth application delivery across environments;
- Develop tooling and automation to support application testing, deployment, and monitoring;
- Troubleshoot and optimize build and deployment processes to ensure reliability and speed;
- Advocate for DevOps best practices, helping to embed them into the development lifecycle;
- Support infrastructure as code and environment provisioning for both local and shared environments;
- Drive improvements to developer experience and internal platform tooling.
How about You
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer, with a strong focus on CI/CD and application-centric workflows;
- Solid knowledge of tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, GHA, or similar;
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure;
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes);
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Ansible);
- Strong scripting or programming experience (e.g., Bash, Python, Go);
- Good understanding of modern software development workflows and R&D culture;
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, solution-driven mindset.
Nice to Have
- Experience working in R&D or experimental software teams;
- Familiarity with Bitrise/Saucelabs;
- Experience with Java;
- Exposure to observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK);
- Passion for enabling teams and improving developer productivity.
Please note that for this role we are only open to candidates currently based within 1 hour of travel from Amsterdam.
Top Skills
What We Do
Backbase is a fast growing fintech software provider that empowers financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation and effectively compete in a digital-first world. We are the creators of the Backbase Omni-Channel Banking Platform, a state-of-the-art digital banking software solution that unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players into a seamless digital customer experience. We give financials the speed and flexibility to create and manage seamless customer experiences across any device, and deliver measurable business results. We believe that superior digital experiences are essential to stay relevant, and our software enables financials to rapidly grow their digital business. More than 120 financials around the world have standardized on the Backbase omni-channel banking platform to streamline their digital sales and self-service operations across all digital touchpoints. Our customer base includes ABN AMRO, Bank ABC, Barclays, BPI, CheBanca!, Citizens Lightstream, Credit Suisse, Fidelity, HDFC, IDFC, KeyBank, Ila Bank, Me Bank, Navy Federal, PostFinance, RBC, RBS, Standard Bank, Societe Generale, Truist, U Bank and Westpac.
Industry analysts Celent, Gartner, Forrester and Ovum recognize Backbase as an industry leader in terms of omni-channel banking platform capabilities, and award the company high marks for its deep focus on customer experience management and unparalleled speed of implementation. Forrester named us a leader in the Forrester Wave for Omni-Channel Banking and Ovum nominates Backbase as the market leading provider of next-generation digital channel banking platforms.
Backbase was founded in 2003, is privately funded, with headquarters in Amsterdam (HQ Global) and Atlanta (HQ Americas) and regional operations in Boisse, Cardiff, Dubai, Kraków, Mexico City, New York, Toronto, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.
