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.