Senior Java Engineer

We are building a new digital financial platform that helps millions of underbanked blue-collar and gig workers to get paid before payday.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineering Ownership: Take full ownership of various fintech products, collaborating with backend, frontend, mobile engineers, QA, and product managers to understand requirements and deliver robust, high-quality solutions.
• Technical Design: Lead system architecture and database design to meet product scalability and performance demands.
• System Optimization: Continuously improve system performance, database efficiency, and application responsiveness for an optimal user experience.
• Best Practices: Adhere to and help evolve engineering best practices across coding standards, database architecture, security, and development tools to ensure technical excellence.
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify, debug, and resolve technical issues in production to ensure system stability and reliability.

Key Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or related fields;
• 5+ year of experience with Java 11+ or other JVM languages, familiar with Spring Boot, Hibernate, Liquibase, build tools, logging & monitoring, troubleshooting, and system performance metrics;
• Proficiency in building distributed systems, experience with microservices architecture, sync/async communication via RESTful API/message broker (e.g., Kafka), cache (e.g., Redis);
• Proficient in database design & SQL;
• Able to work with Docker, CI/CD pipeline, Kubernetes, GIT;
• Practical experience with AWS-managed services such as S3, EKS, RDS, KMS, SQS, SNS;
• Good communication skills.