Backend Engineer

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About the Role:

As a Backend Engineer in the Core Banking team, you will play a key role in building a reliable, agile, and scalable digital banking system. You’ll work on embedded finance products, focusing on deposits, loans, settlements, accounting, and integrations with payment gateways.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product owners to align on requirements and deliver scalable backend solutions.
• Design, build, test, and deploy high-performing, loosely coupled, API-first microservices.
• Ensure precision in handling monetary values while meeting non-functional quality standards (static code analysis, SAST, DAST, etc.).
• Implement automation and continuous improvement in testing and deployment.
• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle.
• Troubleshoot critical production issues, reproduce problems in dev/test, and deliver quick fixes.
• Collaborate within the team to foster a culture of accountability and engineering excellence.

Requirements:

Essential

• Strong hands-on experience with

  Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, SQL, and messaging platforms (Kafka preferred)

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• Solid background in relational/non-relational databases (schema design, transaction management, query optimization).
• Strong understanding of

  microservice architecture

  and scalable API design.
• Experience in

  test automation, CI/CD pipelines

  , and cloud-native development (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have

• Background in

  banking, fintech, or financial services

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• Knowledge of accounting or double-entry bookkeeping.
• Experience with clearing/settlements systems.
• Exposure to

  Mambu cloud banking platform

  or similar.
• Knowledge of Japanese language (a plus).

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