Senior Backend Engineer, Financial Markets

Attributes We Value: We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

Who you are: We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production.
• Strong programming experience in one or more JVM languages (e.g. Kotlin, Java) or a comparable backend stack, and a willingness to work primarily in the JVM ecosystem.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: concurrency, data consistency, idempotency, retries, backoff, and failure modes in networked services.
• Experience designing and working with REST and/or gRPC APIs, and persistence layers using relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and/or key-value stores.
• Proficiency with event-driven architectures and message brokers/streams (e.g. Kafka or similar).
• Strong focus on testing and quality: unit, integration and contract tests; familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Good grasp of observability: metrics, logging, tracing and alerting, and how to use them to debug production issues.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills; comfortable working with cross-functional partners in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in financial services, FX pricing, execution or risk management