Senior Software Engineer: Backend

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About the Role
We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join the MoneyGram core transaction and API development team. You will play a key role in building scalable, high-performance, and secure services while mentoring junior engineers and influencing technical direction. The ideal candidate is a strong problem-solver with expertise in Java, distributed systems, APIs, databases, and cloud-native technologies.

What you will do:

Lead the design and implementation of complex technical solutions, translating business requirements into scalable and maintainable architectures.

Contribute to and influence system architecture, microservices design, API design, event-driven architecture, and integration patterns.

Operate effectively across architecture, implementation, delivery, and operational excellence working as part of a team in an agile environment, providing extreme ownership in what you do.

Work closely with product managers, engineers, and QA to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Automating repeated test, build, and deploy procedures

Drive engineering best practices and coding standards.

What we are looking for

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

10+ years of backend engineering experience with a focus on Java.

Strong expertise in Spring Boot, RESTful services, SOAP, WebSphere and microservices architecture.

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Experience with messaging platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).

Experience with product management processes and tools (Agile methods, Kanban, etc.)

Problem solver who can tackle complex technical challenges

Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Cursor or Augment AI to accelerate coding, testing, documentation and troubleshooting.

Experience leading the design, development and implementation of complex systems.

Experience with Unit Testing (JUnit, Mockito, Groovy)

Experience with Cloud Development, Deployment, and Maintenance (AWS, GCP)

Knowledge / Experience with Relational Database, NoSQL (Couchbase, Mongo) db and database optimization.