About the Role
This role involves leading the architecture and development of scalable backend systems for financial operations, driving technical excellence, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver critical platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement highly available and scalable backend services for financial systems
- Lead technical direction for complex platform components
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define system requirements
- Ensure platform compliance with financial regulations and security standards
- Optimize system performance and reliability under high transaction volume
- Mentor engineers and promote best practices in software development
- Drive automation and tooling improvements for operational efficiency
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in distributed systems
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance platform capabilities
- Participate in code reviews and system design discussions
- Develop monitoring and alerting strategies for critical services
- Support incident response and post-mortem analysis
- Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Work closely with data teams to ensure accurate financial reporting
- Improve deployment pipelines and CI/CD processes
- Enforce coding standards and architectural patterns
- Lead initiatives to reduce technical debt
- Collaborate on capacity planning and system scalability
- Ensure secure handling of sensitive financial data
- Promote observability and logging best practices
- Partner with security teams on vulnerability assessments
- Drive adoption of resilient design patterns
- Support audit readiness for financial controls
- Contribute to API design and integration strategies
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence
Nice to Have
- Advanced degree in computer science or related field
- Experience with real-time financial transaction systems
- Background in fintech or large-scale e-commerce platforms
- Leadership experience in technical architecture decisions
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Knowledge of PCI-DSS or SOX compliance
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Familiarity with stream processing technologies
- Track record of patents or technical publications
- Experience scaling systems to support rapid growth
Compensation
Competitive salary and benefits package
Work Arrangement
Full-time, on-site or hybrid availability may apply
Team
Backend engineering team focused on finance systems
Why This Role Matters
- Financial platforms are central to business operations, requiring resilient, secure, and scalable engineering solutions.
- This position plays a key role in shaping the future of financial infrastructure at scale.
What We Value
- Technical depth combined with practical problem-solving.
- Ownership mindset and commitment to long-term system health.
- Collaborative approach to cross-team challenges.
Available for qualified candidates
