Senior Backend Engineer (Java) for Scalable FinTech Systems

Be | Shaping the Future UK; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

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.