Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

We are the premiere digital transformation partner for financial institutions committed to the future of banking and to creating safe and personalized customer experiences that help people better manage their financial lives. Our fully integrated and flexible platform is built on years of digital lending experience, enabling digital agility within months and a full suite of end-to-end consumer, small business and embedded finance solutions that fit the way people want to bank.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical designs for services, APIs, and integrations using Java and Spring Boot
• Provide LOEs, assess trade-offs between features vs. tech debt, and guide sprint planning
• Ensure robust unit/component/appflow test coverage and technical documentation
• Write clean, scalable, and secure back-end code powering microservices and APIs
• Integrate services with data stores (PostgreSQL, Redis) and event-driven systems (ActiveMQ, Temporal)
• Troubleshoot issues across distributed services, environments, and configs
• Assign and unblock work across sprints, ensuring the team delivers on priorities
• Conduct and coordinate code reviews for complex PRs
• Mentor engineers, raising the bar on technical depth and coding practices
• Partner with QA on test strategies and ensure high-quality releases
• Champion AI-forward best practices, mentoring engineers on integrating AI tools into their workflow
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other teams on release scope and dependencies
• Support release deployments, tenant configurations, and environment setup
• Lead post-mortem reviews and continuous improvement efforts
• Communicate technical status and project risks to stakeholders

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience, with deep back-end expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs/microservices
• Experience designing and integrating large-scale, service-oriented architecture
• Experience adopting or guiding teams in AI-driven development workflows
• Familiarity with event-driven systems (ActiveMQ, Temporal) and data stores (PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Some front-end exposure (JavaScript/TypeScript, React) to support end-to-end coordination
• Experience leading engineering teams or serving as a Tech Lead, mentoring, reviewing code, and driving technical strategy
• Strong understanding of performance tuning, scalability, and distributed system challenges
• Comfortable in agile environments with tools like Jira, Confluence, and Git

Qualifications

• Desired Bachelor's Degree

Skills

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Micronaut
• Temporal
• ActiveMQ
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Jenkins
• Git
• ReactJS

Benefits

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