Expert Backend Engineer

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. 

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.