Senior Backend Engineer (Java) for Scalable FinTech Systems

Be | Shaping the Future UK

United Kingdom

On-site

GBP 70,000 - 110,000

Full time

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Job summary

Be | Shaping the Future UK is seeking experienced Senior Backend Software Engineers to join a technology-driven team serving financial services and payments clients. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native backend services at scale, focusing on reliability and performance.

You will work with Spring Boot, microservices, and distributed systems, delivering customer-facing applications used by thousands of users. Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

  • Experience in Financial Services, FinTech or Payments environments is essential.
  • Experience building customer-facing applications and scalable backend services.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems and modern cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and enhance modern software applications and services.
  • Develop high-quality, maintainable and reusable code.
  • Contribute to microservices-based architectures and distributed systems.
  • Support customer-facing applications used by large user populations.
  • Improve software quality via automated testing and CI/CD practices.
  • Monitor application health, performance and reliability.
  • Manage deployments and production environments.
  • Investigate incidents, perform root-cause analysis and implement fixes.

Skills

Spring Boot
Microservices
SQL / NoSQL
Distributed Systems
Backend Engineering
High-scale Applications
Automated Testing
CI/CD
Problem Solving
Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent
3+ years of software engineering experience

Tools

Kafka
AWS
Docker

Job description

Be | Shaping the Future UK is seeking experienced Senior Backend Software Engineers to join a technology-driven team serving financial services and payments clients. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native backend services at scale, focusing on reliability and performance.

You will work with Spring Boot, microservices, and distributed systems, delivering customer-facing applications used by thousands of users. Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills are essential.

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