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.