Requirements

• Hands-on experience building or making substantial contributions to large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong backend engineering experience, including relational databases, event-driven systems and proficiency in an object-oriented language.
• A product mindset: the ability to explain customer problems, the importance of solutions, and how to assess their effectiveness.
• Ability to take ownership with high autonomy, navigate ambiguity, and involve experts when needed.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills for explaining technical decisions and working across teams.
• Curiosity about the business domain and willingness to learn how partners use the products built.

Nice to haves

• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, or PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of payments, financial technology, funding, settlement, or foreign exchange.
• Using product metrics and data to understand customer behavior and guide decisions.

What you'll be doing

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable services in Java and Spring Boot within a microservices architecture.
• Apply domain-driven design to build robust, scalable solutions.
• Lead development efforts in event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
• Architect, design, and optimize relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) for performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support partner integrations and expand the payment platform globally.
• Participate in code reviews, champion best coding practices, and mentor junior engineers.
• Own solutions end-to-end from problem understanding to production operation.
• Make thoughtful technical decisions balancing delivery time, reliability, and maintainability.
• Work across system boundaries ensuring clear interfaces and understanding the impact on the wider payment journey.
• Improve system dependability through testing, observability, and diagnosing production issues.
• Contribute to team success by sharing domain knowledge and supporting colleagues via reviews, pairing, and mentoring.

Perks and benefits

• Opportunity to have meaningful influence on product development and engineering quality in a growing team.
• Work autonomy with substantial ownership.
• Chance to deepen understanding of funding, settlement, and currency conversion domains.
• Opportunities for broader technical ownership and shaping system designs as team scope expands.