Senior Software Engineer – Backend (SSE-1)

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer Backend (SSE-1) with 6+ years of experience building enterprise-grade, highly reliable backend systems in FinTech or regulated domains.

You will work on mission-critical platforms that handle high data volumes, transactional workloads, and strict correctness requirements, contributing across system design, development, and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

* Design and build scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant backend services

* Develop and maintain enterprise-grade RESTful APIs

* Work on transaction-heavy and data-intensive systems with strong consistency requirements

* Ensure data integrity, auditability, and traceability across services

* Design and optimize database schemas for both relational and document stores

* Collaborate with product, frontend, data, and compliance teams to deliver robust solutions

* Participate in system architecture and design reviews

* Implement best practices around logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident response

* Review code, mentor engineers, and help enforce best engineering practices

* Drive improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability

Required Skills & Experience

* 6+ years of backend engineering experience in FinTech, BFSI, or enterprise SaaS

* Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages: Python / Java / Node.js / Typescript

* Hands-on experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs

* Strong experience with databases, including:

* PostgreSQL / MySQL

* MongoDB

* Deep understanding of data modeling, transactions, and concurrency

* Experience building distributed systems and asynchronous processing workflows

* Familiarity with caching layers (Redis / Memcached)

* Experience running production systems on cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)

* Strong understanding of security fundamentals, including authentication, authorization, and data protection

* Ability to debug and resolve production issues in high-availability environments

Good to Have

* Experience working in regulated environments

* Exposure to event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub)

* Experience with microservices and service-to-service communication

* Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment strategies

* Experience handling financial, analytical, or reporting-heavy systems

* Ability to write clear technical design and architecture documents

What We're Looking For

* Strong sense of ownership and accountability for production systems

* Enterprise mindset builds systems, not just features

* Ability to balance speed, quality, and risk in financial systems

* Clear communication and cross-team collaboration skills

* Comfort working with ambiguity and evolving requirements

Why Join Us

* Work on high-impact FinTech systems used in real-world financial decision-making

* Build and scale enterprise-grade platforms that process millions of transactions daily

* Opportunity to influence architecture and technical direction

* Strong engineering culture focused on quality, reliability, and learning