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Senior Java/Kotlin Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in Java/Kotlin, cloud-native development, and distributed systems to design, build, and support scalable production banking and financial services systems. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical leadership with hands-on engineering excellence and a proven ability to deliver scalable, resilient, and contributing across the full software development lifecycle.
Domain Experience:
- Banking, payments, fintech, or financial services experience.
- Exposure to mission-critical, high-scale production systems, and payment network integrations.
- Experience building customer-facing platforms and transaction processing solutions.
- Understanding of security, compliance, resiliency, and operational risk requirements.
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Roles and Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and support scalable backend services, APIs, and cloud-native microservices.
- Build distributed and event-driven systems using messaging and asynchronous processing patterns.
- Drive engineering excellence through architecture, coding standards, testing, and automation.
- Support production systems, incident management, troubleshooting, and operational resilience.
- Balance long-term architecture goals with short-term delivery priorities.
- Collaborate across engineering teams, product owners, architects, and business stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers, foster knowledge sharing, and shape technical direction.
- Promote responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development practices.
- Ensure engineering output meets stakeholder expectations, security, resiliency, and compliance standards.
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Technical Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and/or Kotlin.
- Expertise in REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience with AWS/multi-cloud cloud-native environments.
- Hands-on experience with messaging frameworks and event-driven architectures.
- Strong understanding of relational databases and data architecture patterns.
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, automation, and modern software delivery practices.
- Strong testing capabilities across Unit, Component, Integration, End-to-End, and Performance Testing.
- Familiarity with JVM ecosystem technologies, open-source frameworks, and production support.
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