Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview

This is a hands-on individual contributor role at a senior level where you’ll lead technical widespread strategy, mentor senior engineers, and ensure alignment with organizational standards. You'll work across multiple teams and domains, including account and contact management, reporting, wallets and balances, end-client onboarding, and notifications.

What You Will Do

Own the technical vision and roadmap for services, lead design and implementation of streaming solutions using Kafka, Flink, and related technologies, collaborate with product and engineering teams, drive best practices for observability, reliability, and scalability in distributed systems, mentor and support engineers, and act as an evangelist for event-driven architectures.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You'll get clear ownership of technical vision and architectural standards for a critical domain, opportunity to influence and shape a new team from the ground up, a modern tech stack and autonomy to innovate, and strong organizational support and visibility for your work.

Requirements

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience
• 5+ years experience in Java Backend Development
• Passion for event-driven architectures and ability to advocate for them across teams
• Proven experience leading technical teams or initiatives, including setting architectural direction
• Skills with functional Java (versions 8+) and Spring (ideally Spring boot)
• Agile ways of working such as Scrum or Kanban in cross-functional teams
• Expert knowledge of Docker, EKS, AWS (public cloud) and Kafka
• Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices
• TDD, BDD and Contract testing
• Working in a DevOps environment, or passion and willingness to work in this way
• Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done
• Exceptional structure and attention to detail
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth environment and as part of a wider team

Benefits

• Clear ownership of technical vision and architectural standards for a critical domain
• Opportunity to influence and shape a new team from the ground up
• A modern tech stack and autonomy to innovate
• Strong organizational support and visibility for your work