Backend Engineer

Job Title : Backend Engineer (Financier)

Location : Pune / Chennai

Workplace Type : On-site

Experience : 5–12 years

About the Role :

As a Backend Engineer in the Core Banking team, you will play a key role in building a reliable, agile, and scalable digital banking system. You’ll work on embedded finance products, focusing on deposits, loans, settlements, accounting, and integrations with payment gateways.

Key Responsibilities :

Work closely with product owners to align on requirements and deliver scalable backend solutions.

Design, build, test, and deploy high-performing, loosely coupled, API-first microservices.

Ensure precision in handling monetary values while meeting non-functional quality standards (static code analysis, SAST, DAST, etc.).

Implement automation and continuous improvement in testing and deployment.

Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle.

Troubleshoot critical production issues, reproduce problems in dev / test, and deliver quick fixes.

Collaborate within the team to foster a culture of accountability and engineering excellence.

Requirements : Essential

Strong hands-on experience with Java / Kotlin, Spring Boot, SQL, and messaging platforms (Kafka preferred) .

Solid background in relational / non-relational databases (schema design, transaction management, query optimization).

Strong understanding of microservice architecture and scalable API design.

Experience in test automation, CI / CD pipelines , and cloud-native development (AWS / Azure / GCP).

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have

Background in banking, fintech, or financial services .

Knowledge of accounting or double-entry bookkeeping.

Experience with clearing / settlements systems.

Exposure to Mambu cloud banking platform or similar.

Knowledge of Japanese language (a plus).

Technology Stack : Kotlin, Spring Boot, Gradle, jOOQ, Liquibase, Kotest / JUnit, Karate / Rest Assured, Redis, MySQL, Docker, AWS ECS, Apache Kafka, GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Sonar Cloud, etc.