Job Specifications
Shine exists to help freelancers and small business owners reclaim the joy of working for themselves. Running a business shouldn't mean drowning in financial admin - it should be inspiring and rewarding. Our app brings banking, invoicing, accounting and admin together in one place, so entrepreneurs can focus on what matters most: growing their business and enjoying the freedom of working for themselves.
We're a multicultural team of over 400 people across France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. By bringing together leading European fintechs like Shine, Kontist and Tellow, we've built a single, intuitive platform designed for simplicity, speed and accuracy - backed by local, award-winning support.
Your Hiring Experience Matters
Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.
If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.
Engineering at Shine
At Ageras, our 150 engineers design scalable, reliable, and user-centric solutions through a modern architecture that drives our growth. Organized into specialized tribes, they collaborate in cross-functional teams—including an Engineering Manager, a Product Manager, a Product Designer, and Software Engineers—to foster innovation and excellence.
Our Structure Maximizes Impact And Ownership
Product teams develop core features for key business domains (invoicing, banking, accounting).
Platform teams manage infrastructure and core services (Cloud, DevOps, Core APIs, developer tools).
Data team builds data pipelines for engineering, modeling, and analytics.
You will join the Compliance & Risks team, which is responsible for detecting and combating fraud risks for Shine and its clients by leveraging the data we have. The goal is to implement pragmatic solutions to improve our clients' security. This can range from providing our fraud and AML (Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing) operators with effective tools and precise data so they can manually review sensitive transactions, to collaborating with technical teams to modify the behavior of certain features. By joining Shine today, you will quickly be able to make an impact in a fast-growing company
The Banking and Compliance team at Shine
What You Bring
Strong experience in a microservices environment
TypeScript / Node.js expertise
Strong experience with React (and ideally NestJS)
Strong knowledge of SQL / PostgreSQL
Experience with distributed / event-driven architectures
Demonstrated ability to design and scale backend services in production
Solid understanding of testing practices
Your responsibilities will include
Technical Development & Delivery
Own the design, development, and implementation of backend services within the Compliance domain
Lead the technical delivery of projects, ensuring high-quality execution
Develop fraud and compliance detection scenarios
Improve existing services, architecture, and system reliability
Explore and propose new features and enhancements
Implement regulatory checks to ensure Shine remains compliant
Support production systems, investigate issues, and fix bugs
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
Work closely with Compliance, Operations, and Product teams to build reliable and auditable systems
Communicate regularly with operators to understand needs and challenges
Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing
Contribute to architecture decisions, technical strategy, and long-term backend direction
Teamwork & Mindset
Demonstrate excellent communication, being respectful, open to challenge, and objective
Be a strong team player, proactive, supportive, and attentive to others
Take ownership and accountability for your work (“you build it, you own it”)
Impact & Growth
Work on high-impact features in a critical banking domain
Tackle challenges related to scale, volume, reliability, and regulatory complexity
Grow your expertise as both a software engineer and data-focused developer
Join an autonomous, collaborative engineering team where your ideas matter
Make a meaningful difference for thousands of entrepreneurs across Europe
Nice-to-Haves
Knowledge or curiosity about AI
Python, BigQuery, DBT, GCP, Terraform
What Success Looks Like
After 3 months: You understand the architecture, know the domain, and contribute meaningfully to our services.
After 6 Months
You are a key contributor to the team’s compliance strategy and major technical initiatives.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.
Our recruitment process
1⃣ A 30’ call with our Talent Acquisition Specialist to get to know you better and share more about Shine' culture and mission.
2⃣ A 45-minute call with t
About the Company
Shine' vision is to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. By integrating our solutions into a single platform for invoicing, accounting, payroll, banking, and financing, we enable small business owners to focus on running their business. Founded in 2012 and run by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, today Shine serves more than 350,000 clients across Europe.
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