Senior Java Backend Engineer - Banking & Microservices

Apply on the Job Website; Bahrain; On-site; BHD 15,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

VAM SYSTEMS is seeking a Sr. Java Developer for its Bahrain operations. The role requires 7–10 years of experience in Java, RESTful services, Spring Boot, and microservices, with banking/financial services exposure. Strong knowledge of security protocols and DevOps practices is expected.

The candidate will design, develop, and maintain Java applications, build scalable backend services, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions in a banking environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.
• 7–10 years of Java development experience.
• Experience with API management, microservices, Spring Boot and JPA.
• RESTful APIs design, relational and NoSQL databases.
• Banking/Financial services domain experience.
• Security protocols: OAuth/OpenID, SAML/SSO, TLS.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Java applications using OOP and clean-code practices (SOLID/DRY).
• Build backend services with Spring Framework/Spring Boot for high performance and scalability.
• Develop/expose RESTful APIs; support SOAP/XML integrations when required.
• Implement microservices with JPA/Hibernate and API lifecycle management.
• Design/optimize data models; manage MySQL and MongoDB.
• Apply concurrency/multithreading to improve throughput and reliability.
• Implement OAuth2/OpenID Connect, SAML/SSO, TLS and PKI concepts.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and support CI/CD/DevOps.

Skills

Java 8/11/14

OOP principles (SOLID/DRY)

Java Concurrency & Multithreading

Microservices

Spring Framework + Spring Boot + JPA

RESTful APIs

Message Queuing (IBM MQ, Kafka)

SQL & Relational DB design

NoSQL (MongoDB)

Security protocols (OpenID, TLS, OAuth

SAML, SSO, PKI encryption & key mgmt

Testing, debugging, Git

DevOps

Banking / Financial Services domain

Azure DevOps pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

VAM SYSTEMS is seeking a Sr. Java Developer for its Bahrain operations. The role requires 7–10 years of experience in Java, RESTful services, Spring Boot, and microservices, with banking/financial services exposure. Strong knowledge of security protocols and DevOps practices is expected.

The candidate will design, develop, and maintain Java applications, build scalable backend services, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions in a banking environment.