Senior Backend Engineer - Fintech Microservices Azure

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 No
  
  SQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops 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.