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.

Requirements

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)