Senior Backend Engineer, Membership (Payments)

We are Europe’s leading podcasting platform, home to award winning exclusive originals, audiobooks and podcasts. We work with some of the best and most exciting Creators across Europe, and publish over 700 episodes a month, all powered by our innovative technology and a seamless consumer experience. We are now looking for Senior Backend Engineer, Membership (Payments) to join our amazing team.

This is the role

You'll join Membership, the cross-functional team that owns the subscriber lifecycle, and own the backend behind how listeners pay for Podimo. This code handles real money: when it breaks, people get charged twice or lose access to what they paid for.

How we build: engineers on the big features, agents on everything else. A crew of small, single-purpose agents is taking over the upkeep (dependency upgrades, flaky tests, alert triage, low-risk bugs), so your time goes to the hard problems: payment architecture, new markets and payment methods, and the features listeners notice. You decide what gets built and how, and you own what you ship.

Your main responsibilities

• Own payment plans, offers, subscriptions, gift cards, and promo codes across web payments (Adyen, Vipps/MobilePay) and in-app purchases (Apple, Google Play)

• Keep money flows correct and observable: idempotency, webhooks, store notifications

• Lead epics of cross-team features and technical initiatives

• Build the APIs our Android, iOS, and Web apps use for paywalls, checkout, and account management

• Build the guardrails agents work inside: architecture, tests, automated checks, and the context they run on

Our stack: Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL,TypeScript, MySQL, Pub/Sub, GraphQL, and Kubernetes on Google Cloud, with AI coding agents every day.

How you'll grow: You'll shape how a payments team works with agents, from the guardrails to the workflows other teams reuse. The path continues to staff and lead roles, where engineers set standards, build agent workflows, and coach the team.

This is you

• You've built and run backend services in production. We work in Kotlin and TypeScript, but your judgment matters more to us than any single language

• You read code and architecture quickly and can judge what's right and what will break, whether a person or an agent wrote it

• You know where distributed systems fail: retries, race conditions, idempotency, and partial failures

• You work with AI agents daily: you write clear specs, review their output critically, and know when to take the keyboard back

• You communicate like an owner, in clear English

Big plus: payments experience, such as payment providers, app store billing, subscriptions. Naturally, being passionate and knowledgeable about podcasts, audio and video content, creators, entertainment and the media industry is also a plus!

What We Offer

• Up to six months of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, any gender

• Participation in our ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Program)

• A third-pillar pension plan: we contribute to your long-term savings

• AI tooling: no limits on licenses or usage

• Learning and development budget, including courses and conferences

• Flexible hours and a hybrid setup, plus free daily lunch at our Vilnius city-center office

• Gross salary: from 5,833 EUR/month for the Lithuanian market, depending on your skills and experience

This is us

Podimo is Europe’s leading podcasting platform, home to award-winning exclusive originals, audiobooks, and podcasts with over 1.2 million subscribers and delivering over 700 curated episodes a month. Offering premium entertainment through a seamless experience, Podimo combines end-to-end production powered by innovative technology and a creator-first model that rewards creators for producing exceptional content that engages and entertains audiences.

Through Podimo Studios, we produce, monetise and distribute great stories and shows, either in-house or via our four labels: Podads in Denmark, arc.studio in Germany, and Dutch labels Tonny Media and Dag en Nacht Media. This helps us to deliver integrated, high-quality entertainment across multiple markets

We’re fiercely passionate about discovering, creating, and obsessing over great stories and the experience our app offers. We help our creators connect directly with their fans, building communities and fandoms to bring their most exciting ideas and stories to life and increase their engagement.

We’re a courageous and curious bunch. We recognise the value every individual brings, and respect everyone’s contribution and time. We approach our work with integrity and humility, and believe that we are better together. We have zero time for sharp elbows and big egos. We love what we do, but more importantly, we have a good time doing it.

We are building a company and culture that mirrors the diversity of the world we’re living in. This means: diversity of talent, voices, ideas, and thoughts. That goes both for our brand, our content, our creators, and our teams.

You are welcome at Podimo for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what stories you have playing in your headphones.