Engineer, Backend

About The Role

As a Backend Engineer, you will:

• Contribute to an event-driven Microservice Architecture (currently 200+ services owned by 40+ teams).
• Define and maintain services owned by your team: you design it, build it, run it, and scale it globally.
• Build services using Java 17, Spring Boot, and JOOQ.
• Expose and consume RESTful APIs, treating them as products, often public in the context of Open Banking.
• Send events using SNS+SQS and Kafka.
• Utilize PostgreSQL via Aurora as the primary datastore.
• Deploy services to production multiple times per day, enabled by CI/CD pipelines.
• Utilize GitHub Actions for Sonarcloud, SemGrep, and JUnit/Pact testing.
• Experience modern GitOps using ArgoCD.
• Collaborate with the Cloud team who use Docker, Terraform, EKS/Kubernetes for platform operations.
• Monitor services and investigate issues using DataDog.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners to understand user needs, business opportunities, and regulatory requirements, translating them into well-engineered solutions.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience building server-side applications with detailed knowledge of relevant programming languages for your stack.
• Willingness to learn Java if you don't already know it, as most services are written in Java.
• Sound knowledge of a backend framework (e.g., Spring/Spring Boot) used to write microservices that expose and consume RESTful APIs.
• Experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment, with an understanding of CI/CD fundamentals and practical Agile methodologies.
• Demonstrated mindset for delivering secure, well-tested, and well-documented software that integrates with various third-party providers and partners.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools and LLMs to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and delivery velocity.