Staff Backend Engineer

Job Description&Responsibilities

Design and Development:

• Design, test, and implement additional product features.
• Prepare and present design documentation for new features being developed.
• Treat pragmatic automated testing as an integral part of all deliverables.
• Ensure code is built with a keen focus on security and privacy best practices.
• Maintain strict data consistency standards while handling financial transactions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and self-documenting code.
• Participate in peer code reviews to ensure quality and consistency.
• Stay updated on backend design patterns to deliver a modern, cost-efficient, cloud-based architecture.

Operations:

• Ensure gradual rollout of new functionality using best practices like feature toggles, blue-green deployments, and gradual traffic ramp-up.
• Automate product metrics backed by strict SLA/SLO quality gates.
• Participate in on-call incident response team rotation—“you build it, you run it.”

Ownership and Collaboration:

• Understand international financial regulations.
• Ensure customer needs are integral to what you do.
• Take full ownership of features and deliverables, from development to production release and beyond.
• Work cross-functionally with other engineering, product, and QA teams to ensure seamless product functionality.
• Mentor and direct junior developers, fostering a culture of learning, improvement, and excellence.

Technical Expertise:

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend development (Go Lang or Java).
• Deep knowledge of Go Lang or Java, with hands-on experience building scalable services.
• Ability and willingness to enhance existing Go Lang backend services regardless of specialization.
• Experience working with an observability stack (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Expertise in building RESTful APIs following company standards.
• Understanding of Domain-Driven Design and Modularization concepts.
• Asynchronous processing with approaches like co-routines, message queuing, and event streaming.
• Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL), including evolving schemas, transaction isolation levels, and writing optimal SQL queries.
• Ability to package atomic changes for review as Pull Requests using GitHub.
• Understanding caching patterns (Redis).

Cloud-Native Tools:

• Experience with Docker and other container technologies.
• Proven experience creating user-friendly, responsive, and visually appealing UIs.
• Knowledge of operational aspects of Amazon Web Services key services (S3, ECS, ECR, RDS, etc.) or a similar cloud provider.

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a detail-oriented mindset.
• High sense of ownership and accountability for delivering top-quality work.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team.

Nice to Haves:

• Knowledge of performance profiling tools.
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of writing secure code in compliance with international standards (PCI, OWASP).
• Previous experience in the financial domain.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.