Senior Backend Engineer

Purpose:

To design, develop, and optimize complex backend systems and services, ensuring scalability, security, performance, and reliability while contributing to technical standards and engineering improvements. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs in Java and Spring Boot within a microservices architecture. 

• Own delivery of complex features end to end, from technical design through production. 

• Design and optimize database interactions, integrations, and inter-service communication. 

• Build and operate event-driven flows using Kafka and enterprise messaging. 

• Ensure solutions meet security, performance, availability, and maintainability requirements. 

• Apply secure coding practices for authentication, authorization, encryption, and sensitive data handling. 

• Conduct code reviews and uphold engineering standards across the squad. 

• Troubleshoot complex production issues and implement durable fixes. 

• Contribute to technical design decisions and application architecture. 

• Improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment, and observability on OpenShift/Kubernetes. 

• Identify technical debt and drive improvements to design and code quality. 

• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the chapter. 

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. 

• 4 years of backend engineering experience. 

• Strong Java, Spring Boot, REST API design, SQL, and Git. 

• Hands-on experience with containers, CI/CD, and distributed systems (Good to have) 

• Payments or regulated financial services experience preferred (Good to have)