Senior Backend Software Developer, FinTech

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer Backend (SSE-1) with 6+ years of experience in FinTech or regulated domains, you will have the opportunity to work on mission-critical platforms handling high data volumes and transactional workloads. Your role will involve contributing to system design, development, and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant backend services
• Develop and maintain enterprise-grade RESTful APIs
• Work on transaction-heavy and data-intensive systems with strong consistency requirements
• Ensure data integrity, auditability, and traceability across services
• Design and optimize database schemas for both relational and document stores
• Collaborate with product, frontend, data, and compliance teams for robust solutions
• Participate in system architecture and design reviews
• Implement best practices for logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Review code, mentor engineers, and enforce best engineering practices
• Drive improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience in FinTech, BFSI, or enterprise SaaS
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Java, Node.Js, or Typescript
• Hands-on experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Strong experience with databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB
• Deep understanding of data modeling, transactions, and concurrency
• Experience in building distributed systems and asynchronous processing workflows
• Familiarity with caching layers like Redis or Memcached
• Experience running production systems on cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals and resolving production issues

Good to Have

• Experience in regulated environments
• Exposure to event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub)
• Experience with microservices and service-to-service communication
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment strategies
• Experience in handling financial, analytical, or reporting-heavy systems
• Ability to write clear technical design and architecture documents

Additional Expectations

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are expected to demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and accountability for production systems. You will have the opportunity to work on high-impact FinTech systems, influence architecture, and collaborate with a strong engineering culture focused on quality, reliability, and learning.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant backend services
• Develop and maintain enterprise-grade RESTful APIs
• Work on transaction-heavy and data-intensive systems with strong consistency requirements
• Ensure data integrity, auditability, and traceability across services
• Design and optimize database schemas for both relational and document stores
• Collaborate with product, frontend, data, and compliance teams for robust solutions
• Participate in system architecture and design reviews
• Implement best practices for logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Review code, mentor engineers, and enforce best engineering practices
• Drive improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience in FinTech, BFSI, or enterprise SaaS
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Java, Node.Js, or Typescript
• Hands-on experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Strong experience with databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB
• Deep understanding of data modeling, transactions, and concurrency
• Experience in building distributed systems and asynchronous processing workflows
• Familiarity with caching layers like Redis or Memcached
• Experience running production systems on cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals and resolving production issues

Good to Have

• Experience in regulated environments
• Exposure to event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub)
• Experience with microservices and service-to-service communication
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment strategies
• Experience in handling financial, analytical, or reporting-heavy systems
• Ability to write clear technical design and architecture documents

Additional Expectations

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are expected to demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and accountability for production systems. You will have the opportunity to work on high-impact FinTech systems, influence architecture, and collaborate with a strong e