Expert Backend Engineer

Job description

Purpose: To serve as a senior technical authority in backend engineering, designing highly scalable and resilient backend solutions and driving technical standards, architecture alignment, and engineering excellence. Main Duties and Responsibilities: • Design complex backend architectures, services, APIs, and integration patterns across multiple squads. • Act as senior technical authority for critical backend systems and lead their implementation. • Define and enforce backend engineering standards, patterns, and development practices. • Ensure solutions meet scalability, security, resilience, performance, and availability requirements. • Design for high availability and resilience in payment-critical, always-on services. • Review complex code, technical designs, and implementation approaches. • Resolve critical production incidents and drive root-cause remediation. • Optimize application performance, database interactions, and service communication. • Align designs with enterprise architecture, security, and regulatory requirements. • Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities. • Mentor backend engineers and raise the technical bar across the chapter. • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption. • Contribute to architectural decisions and technology roadmaps.

Requirements

• QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Master’s preferred.
• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, including senior or lead technical ownership.
• Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture.
• Strong background in security, performance engineering, and production operations at scale.
• Payments, banking, or regulated financial services experience.
• Professional Certificates.

Skills