About the role: as a Senior Backend Engineer within our Engineering team, you will be instrumental in building, maintaining and evolving a modular monolith and all related components, structured around clear business domains. You’ll be challenged with designing scalable backend solutions with a focus on security best practices and seamless integration across various teams—working collaboratively with Frontend, DevOps, Product, and business stakeholders to deliver an outstanding product experience for our customers.

• Take Ownership
• Lead Architectural Transformation and Migration
• Elevate Developer Experience (DX)
• Drive Quality and Testing Strategy
• Achieve Operational Excellence
• Instill a Culture of Engineering Health 

• 8+ years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer, ideally for a Financial Services company
• Strong background in software architecture
• Hands-on experience applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Fluency in Typescript and Relational Databases
• Has experience with AWS and ideally Kubernetes
• Has hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with logging, monitoring tools (e.g., Newrelic, Grafana), and debugging large systems
• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools to ship high-quality code faster

• Node.js (TypeScript)
• Express.js
• Next.js (App Router, Server Components, Route Handlers / API routes, Server Actions)
• REST & GRPC API design and integration
• Relational databases (MySQL) with ORMs (TypeORM)
• Caching & performance optimization (e.g., Redis, CDN, ISR/SSR tuning)
• Authentication & authorization (NextAuth/Auth.js, JWT, OAuth2, SSO)
• Security best practices for fintech/PII (encryption, OWASP, rate limiting)
• Background jobs & event-driven patterns (queues, webhooks)
• Testing (unit, integration, e2e – e.g., Jest, Playwright)
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) AWS services for backend workloads (e.g., RDS for MySQL, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda)