Senior Backend Architect: Java/Kotlin, Cloud & Banking APIs

Parser; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work environment

Medical insurance

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Parser is hiring a backend engineer to design, develop, and maintain mission-critical banking services and applications. You will lead architecture decisions for distributed systems and microservices while building cloud-native applications in multi-cloud environments.

You will develop robust RESTful APIs, enable asynchronous processing, and ensure strong testing and production-support capabilities. Collaboration across multiple locations provides a dynamic, hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services for mission-critical systems.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency with Java and JVM ecosystems; Kotlin a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain mission-critical banking services and applications.
• Lead architectural decisions for distributed systems and microservices.
• Build and support cloud-native applications in multi-cloud environments.
• Develop robust RESTful APIs and implement asynchronous processing solutions.
• Ensure operational excellence through comprehensive testing strategies and production support.
• Participate in incident management and system reliability initiatives.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Microservices

RESTful APIs

Cloud deployment

CI/CD

Testing

Incident management

Team collaboration

Tools

Spring Framework

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS / Cloud platforms

PostgreSQL

Job description

Parser is hiring a backend engineer to design, develop, and maintain mission-critical banking services and applications. You will lead architecture decisions for distributed systems and microservices while building cloud-native applications in multi-cloud environments.

You will develop robust RESTful APIs, enable asynchronous processing, and ensure strong testing and production-support capabilities. Collaboration across multiple locations provides a dynamic, hybrid work setting.