Software Architect, Backend Developer

About Us

A leading UAE-based consumer technology company, building the digital infrastructure of everyday life with a focus on AI-powered fintech, communication, and digital services.

Location:

Abu Dhabi

Guided by our philosophy, the Blueprint of Simplicity
, we design technology around real human behavior, connecting people, enabling financial access, and making everyday experiences effortless.

Our flagship platform,
botim
, is the region’s most trusted fintech communication platform, combining secure VoIP with action-based AI and everyday money tools. Through botim money
, we provide financial services that serve both individuals and SMEs, making payments, transfers, and credit simpler and more accessible. Today, the platform serves 150M+ users worldwide
.

Our lending finance engine,
Quantix
, powers fast, regulated credit across the ecosystem, including innovative products such as Cash Now for instant access.

From calls to credit, from daily services to big ambitions, we are rethinking how the region stays connected and financially included.

We are at a critical juncture — building and scaling next-generation payment systems across merchant acquiring and core payment processing, powering real‑time transaction flows at production scale. This is a high-impact, cross-platform role where you will own backend architecture, make authoritative technical decisions across multiple squads, and directly shape the technical direction of our payments platform.

You will serve as the technical architectural bridge between the Chief Architect and engineering execution — translating product intent into scalable, production‑ready payment systems, guiding a pod of engineers through what good looks like, and setting the standard that every squad builds to. You will be the person teams come to when a decision needs to be made, a trade‑off needs to be owned, or a design needs to be challenged.

You know the payment ecosystem inside out — from how a transaction moves across card schemes, through switching layers, into clearing and settlement, to how regulatory and compliance constraints shape every design decision. Our platform is built on a Java microservices stack operating at the intersection of real‑time transaction processing, card scheme integration, and regulated financial infrastructure — and this role sits at the centre of all of it.

Architect and evolve systems spanning Merchant Management, POS, and eCommerce acceptance. You own the platform architecture across acquiring and adjacent payment services — not scoped to a single squad or vertical. Design for high throughput, low latency, and production-first reliability across auth, clearing, settlement, and reconciliation flows.

You will own Technical architectural direction and design decisions across multiple engineering squads simultaneously. You are the person who holds the full-system technical view when individual squads optimise locally. Lead and mentor a pod of engineers — owning design quality and delivery accountability.

Work directly with Product Owners to translate product intent and regulatory requirements into technically sound, scalable, and auditable system designs. You bridge the gap between what is being asked and what should be built — and you communicate that clearly in both directions.

Define the integration architecture across card schemes, payment processor, and internal switching layers — setting the technical standards for payment integration including ISO 8583 message design, inter-service communication patterns using Dubbo or a comparable RPC framework, and how the acquiring service mesh connects and fails safely. Stay hands‑on — contribute to critical Java microservice components, lead code and architecture reviews, and resolve complex production issues.

At this level, you code because it makes your architecture better, not because no one else can.

Design REST/JSON APIs with strong emphasis on idempotency, fault tolerance, and exactly‑once…