Lead Backend Engineer
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Summary
AMINA Bank's India subsidiary seeks a hands-on Lead Backend Engineer to lead the team behind the bank's middle-layer services, APIs and integrations — coaching engineers while staying deep in solution design, code reviews and development. Core stack: Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, REST APIs, messaging, Kubernetes, with a payments/banking focus in a regulated environment.
Founded in April 2018 and headquartered in Zug, AMINA Bank is a pioneer in the financial industry. In August 2019, AMINA received a Swiss banking and securities dealer license from FINMA. The broad, vertically integrated spectrum of services, combined with the highest security standards, make AMINA’s value proposition unique.
AMINA operates globally from its regulated hubs in Switzerland, Abu Dhabi, and Hong Kong to offer fiat and crypto services to progressive investors, traditional and crypto-native alike, whether individuals, corporates, or institutions.
CVVC Global Report and CB Insights named AMINA as one of the Top 50 Companies within the blockchain ecosystem. Aite Group awarded AMINA their 2021 Digital Wealth Management Impact Innovation Award in the ‘Digital Startup of the Year’ category, and LinkedIn listed AMINA as one of the Top Startups 2021 in Switzerland. In 2022, AMINA won the Digital Assets Offering or Service at the WealthBriefing Swiss EAM Awards, and the bank was also recognised for its product offering SEBAX and won the Best ETP of the Year award at the Swiss ETF Awards 2022. In 2023, AMINA won the European WealthBriefing Award in the Digital Assets Solution, Fund Manager category.
AMINA India is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMINA Bank AG. AMINA India acts as a virtual extension of the bank supporting activities spanning trading & liquidity management, digital assets research, marketing, investment solutions, risk management, account management, mid/back-office, product management, technology & engineering, IT support, finance and human resources.
We are looking for a hands-on Backend Lead Engineer to lead the team responsible for the Bank’s middle-layer components and services. You will combine strong backend engineering expertise with technical leadership and people responsibility, remaining actively involved in solution design, code reviews, development and complex engineering challenges.
Working closely with the Architecture team and collaborating with Product, Security and other engineering teams, you will turn architectural direction and business requirements into secure, resilient and maintainable solutions.
The role is particularly suited to someone with strong backend engineering experience and solution delivery focus combined with experience in payments, API gateway/API management and complex integration environments.
- Act as the technical engineering lead for the Bank's middle-layer services, APIs and integrations.
- Lead, coach and support the API and middle-layer backend engineering team, including capacity allocation, work planning and prioritisation across products, initiatives and technical priorities.
- Work closely with the Architecture team to translate target architecture and standards into pragmatic, high-quality implementations.
- Remain hands-on, participating in solution design, code reviews, development, prototyping, production support and resolution of complex technical issues.
- Drive engineering quality, reliability, security, observability and maintainability across the middle-layer estate.
- Provide technical leadership for API, integration, messaging and payment-related capabilities.
- Coordinate technical dependencies with digital channels, core banking, platform, data and third-party systems.
- Partner with product and other technology teams to turn business requirements into robust technical solutions, balancing delivery, risk and long-term sustainability.
- Act as a subject-matter expert for backend engineering, driving engineering standards and continuous improvement.
- Extensive backend engineering experience, including experience in a Lead, Principal, Architect or similar technical leadership role.
- Proven experience leading, coaching and developing an engineering team while remaining actively involved in software engineering and development.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java or Kotlin, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, messaging, integration patterns and distributed systems.
- Strong experience designing, developing and supporting scalable, resilient, secure and observable backend services and integrations.
- Good understanding of synchronous and asynchronous integration, data consistency, transaction management, caching, failure handling and modern API patterns.
- Practical experience with automated testing, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, monitoring and production support.
- Experience with API gateways/API management platforms and enterprise integration architectures.
- Experience with payment systems, payment processing and banking integrations is strongly preferred.
- Good knowledge of secure development practices, API security, OWASP guidance and engineering controls expected in regulated environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to interact effectively with architects, technical teams and business stakeholders at different seniority levels, constructively challenging and refining solutions where appropriate.
- Experience in banking, financial services, crypto or another regulated environment is strongly preferred.
We owe our exponential growth to our innovative and collaborate team spirit and talented workforce. Every voice counts as we are always committed to learning from diverse perspectives and backgrounds because our people make the difference at AMINA Bank. Regardless of your age, gender, belief, and background, at AMINA EVERYONE is welcome!
Join our skilled team and together redefine finance.
