Full-Stack Software Engineer (Istanbul R&D Hub)
Summary
Full-stack engineer at Beakwise's Istanbul R&D hub building enterprise financial-services platforms (insurance, banking, payments): customer-facing portals/dashboards, backend microservices, and APIs where performance and reliability matter. Core stack is a backend language plus Vue.js/React, REST APIs, and relational databases; Rust, Docker/K8s, and cloud are pluses.
About Beakwise
Beakwise is an R&D and product company building enterprise-grade software platforms for large organizations. Financial services is our primary focus today (insurance, banking, payments), and our ambition is broader: to become a trusted software and technology products vendor for large enterprises across industries. Istanbul is our headquarters and a key R&D engineering hub, and we're hiring engineers who want to build real systems, set standards, and shape how the team works.
The opportunity
This is a hands-on engineering role for people who have shipped production software and want to build platforms that must be fast, secure, observable, and reliable.
You’ll work on:
- Customer-facing applications (portals, dashboards, workflow tools)
- Backend services and APIs (microservices, integrations, high-traceability operations)
- Platforms where performance, resilience, and operational calm actually matter
Requirements (must have)
- 3+ years of software engineering experience (full-stack, or strong FE/BE with willingness to cross)
- You have shipped and supported production systems
- Proficiency in a backend programming language, as well as a frontend programming language and its frameworks (for example Vue.js or React)
- Solid understanding of REST APIs and relational databases
- Comfortable with Git, code reviews, and modern development workflows
- English is required (written and spoken)
- Turkish is required (written and spoken)
Big plus
Any of the below is a strong advantage:
- Grasp of the Rust programming language is a big plus
- Microservices and integration-heavy enterprise platforms
- Docker and Kubernetes; cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience building systems in complex domains such as: Insurance
- Banking
- Payments / PSP ecosystems (authorization, settlement, disputes, reconciliation, merchant onboarding)
- Automotive and mobility (dealer networks, fleet, financing, aftersales workflows)
- Additional European or Asian languages (for example Uzbek, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese)
