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Senior Backend Engineer (SDE 3)

Summary

Senior backend engineer building scalable fintech services using microservices and AWS, modernizing the stack and mentoring junior engineers.

Job Overview

  • Work with Product, Business and other stakeholders to gather and understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
  • Write high quality, maintainable code, modernize the tech‑stack.
  • Own parts of the system and continuously work to improve it in various aspects based on monitoring best practice and computer science knowledge.
  • Participate in design discussions, reviews and propose/implement solutions to technical problems and challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement backend services.
  • Work with Product, Business and other stakeholders to gather and understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
  • Write high quality, maintainable code, modernize the tech‑stack.
  • Own parts of the system and continuously work to improve it in various aspects based on monitoring best practice and computer science knowledge.
  • Participate in design discussions, reviews and propose/implement solutions to technical problems and challenges.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Minimum 5 years of software development experience.
  • Minimum mentoring junior engineers for 2 years.
  • Strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Computer Science fundamentals.
  • Strong foundation in object‑oriented programming language.
  • Good understanding of microservices architecture and event‑driven programming paradigm.
  • Know all best practices about server communication and its usage.
  • Strong foundation in Linux environment.
  • Experience and strong foundation in IAAS, SAAS, PAAS in AWS environment.
  • Good attitude to share engineering best practices in the team.

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