Staff Backend Engineer - Global, Remote-First Fintech

Ajaib Group; Indonesia; Remote; IDR 900,000,000 - 1,300,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Bonus

Private Insurance

Paid Time Off

Learning & Development

Hybrid Work Arrangement

Career Growth

Employee Perks

Collaborative & High-Ownership Culture

Job summary

Ajaib Group is seeking a senior backend engineer to define the technical direction for ledger, account, and payment systems. You will lead fault-tolerant service designs, ensure security and reliability, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams across remote locations.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years building large-scale distributed systems in finance, with strong Java/Go skills and deep experience in microservices, messaging, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven track record designing and running large-scale distributed systems handling money or critical transactions.
• Strong communication and ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction and architecture for ledger, account, and payment systems.
• Lead design of fault-tolerant, secure services and review critical designs.
• Mentor engineers and lead cross-team initiatives.

Skills

Microservices architecture

Distributed systems engineering

Leadership across teams

Security & reliability

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Relational databases

Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)

Job description

Ajaib Group is seeking a senior backend engineer to define the technical direction for ledger, account, and payment systems. You will lead fault-tolerant service designs, ensure security and reliability, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams across remote locations.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years building large-scale distributed systems in finance, with strong Java/Go skills and deep experience in microservices, messaging, and cloud platforms.