Technical Lead – Backend

Role Overview

• Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers across multiple functional domains.
• Provide technical direction and ensure alignment with architecture standards and engineering best practices.
• Review solution designs, code quality, and implementation approaches — promoting clean architecture, resilient microservices, and AI‑enhanced development patterns.
• Guide the team in diagnosing complex technical challenges, using both traditional analysis and AI-powered debugging or observability tools.
• Support planning, estimation, and technical decision-making within the engineering team.
• Design and develop backend services using Java and modern backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot).
• Define and implement microservices-based architecture and API-driven systems.
• Ensure backend services are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable.
• Drive best practices in backend development, including maintainable system design, automated testing, code quality, API governance, performance optimization and documentation.
• Work closely with DevOps teams to support CI/CD pipelines, incorporate intelligent automation, and ensure stable, secure deployment environments.
• Integrate AI-assisted development practices into coding, testing, documentation, code reviews, and defect prevention workflows.
• Design backend systems supporting banking products and financial transaction processing.
• Build and maintain services related to payments, card processing, financial operations, and core banking functions.
• Ensure backend implementations comply with financial industry standards and security requirements.
• Collaborate with business and product teams to translate banking and financial requirements into technical solutions.
• Work directly with client stakeholders, architects, and product owners to understand business processes, requirements and define technical solutions.
• Challenge and clarify requirements with curiosity dig deep into the "why" behind business needs.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical workshops with client teams.
• Communicate technical designs, trade-offs, and solutions clearly to both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support project delivery by ensuring technical risks are identified and mitigated early.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of backend development experience.
• 3+ years in a Technical Lead or senior engineering role.
• Strong experience with Java and backend frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot).
• Experience designing and implementing microservices, API-driven systems, event-driven architectures or messaging systems (e.g., Kafka), RDBMS and SQL.
• Solid experience working with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, version control (Git), and automated pipelines.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in banking, fintech, or financial services environments.
• Familiarity with core banking, card, payment systems, or related financial systems.
• Knowledge of industry standards (e.g. PCI-DSS) or payment security practices.
• Handson exposure to AIassisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar).
• Ability to write effective prompts and context for AI code generation.
• Ability to assess AI-generated code, verify security vulnerabilities, validate AI-generated tests for completeness and edge case coverage.

Tech Stack

• Docker
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• RDBMS
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot
• SQL