Senior Software Engineer

Job description / Role

Job summary

We are looking for a highly skilled and hands-on senior software engineer to join a core engineering team and contribute to building scalable products and technology platforms from the ground up. This is a strong individual contributor role for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, writing high-quality code, and taking ownership across the complete software development lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java, Spring Framework, object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design. You will contribute to building reliable and scalable technology solutions for a fast-growing consumer fintech environment.

Requirements

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable software applications and backend services.
• Participate in the complete software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis through production monitoring.
• Translate functional and technical requirements into reliable and maintainable software solutions.
• Develop high-quality backend applications using Java and Spring Framework.
• Apply strong object-oriented programming principles, design patterns, and clean coding practices.
• Design efficient solutions using appropriate data structures and algorithms.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and make sound design decisions based on scalability, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architecture and platform decisions.
• Write comprehensive unit, integration, and functional tests to ensure application quality.
• Proactively identify potential bugs, edge cases, performance issues, and reliability risks before they reach production.
• Debug complex application issues and perform detailed root-cause analysis.
• Support application deployment, production releases, monitoring, and post-deployment troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with product, QA, DevOps, architecture, and other engineering teams to deliver features end-to-end.
• Review code and contribute to engineering standards, development practices, and technical documentation.
• Identify opportunities for performance optimisation, automation, refactoring, and technical debt reduction.
• Take ownership of assigned technical initiatives and drive them through design, implementation, testing, and production delivery.
• Contribute to building scalable products and platforms suitable for high-volume consumer applications.
• Continuously learn and adopt modern software engineering practices and technologies.

What makes you a great fit

• 7+ years of strong individual-contributor experience in software engineering or backend development.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java and the Spring Framework / Spring Boot ecosystem.
• Excellent understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Proven experience designing and developing scalable backend applications and services.
• Strong understanding of design trade-offs involving performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Experience working across the complete software development lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Strong debugging skills and a proactive mindset toward identifying hidden defects and edge cases before production.
• Experience building products or platforms for high-scale internet businesses, startups, fintech, or consumer technology environments is preferred.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, clean code, design patterns, testing, and version control.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and responsibility for technical outcomes.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a high-performing engineering team.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for solving complex technical challenges.
• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where engineers are expected to take significant ownership and contribute beyond narrowly defined responsibilities.