Senior Backend Software Engineer
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Job purpose
- We are building a modern AI-first digital banking platform with a strong product engineering culture, high ownership, and modern architecture principles.
- We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help design, build, and scale core banking and fintech capabilities across payments, onboarding, cards, integrations, AI-enabled services, and customer-facing digital products.
- This role requires strong backend engineering fundamentals, hands-on delivery, architectural thinking, and the ability to operate in a fast-moving product environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
- Build production-grade microservices using Java/Kotlin.
- Develop cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Work closely with product, mobile, design, security, and platform teams.
- Participate in architecture decisions and technical strategy discussions.
- Improve system reliability, observability, scalability, and security.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and engineering automation.
- Review code, mentor engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
- Optimize performance, latency, and cost efficiency of backend systems.
- Support integration with banking systems, fintech providers, payment gateways, and third-party platforms.
- Drive engineering quality through testing, monitoring, and operational excellence.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
- Strong experience with Java and/or Kotlin.
- Strong understanding of Spring Boot ecosystem.
- Experience building distributed systems and microservice architectures.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience with REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, and event-driven architectures.
- Solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Understanding of secure software development principles.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Experience working in agile product engineering teams.
- Strong communication and ownership mindset.
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