Principal Backend Engineer

Backbase; Región Centro; Híbrido; MXN 200,000 - 400,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading software company is looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to lead a team and integrate their platform into customer systems. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software development, excellent communication skills in English, and experience with Java, Spring, and microservices. This position offers a hybrid working environment in Guadalajara, Mexico, requiring office attendance two days a week.

Formación

• Solid background in software development, design and architectural patterns.
• 2-3 years of experience in the banking domain or Fintech products preferred.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both spoken and written.
• Strong experience with microservices and Cloud-native deployments.
• Knowledgeable of relational databases like Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL.

Responsabilidades

• Lead/manage the team of Backend engineers.
• Integrate the Backbase platform into customers' systems.
• Act as an expert for backend-related topics during projects.
• Foster collaboration across departments.

Conocimientos

Software development background

Clear communication skills

Experience with Java

Experience with Spring

Experience with Docker

Experience with microservices

Experience with Cloud-native deployments

Knowledge of relational databases

Understanding of performance and scalability

Herramientas

Spring Boot

Maven

Docker

CI/CD tools

AWS

Azure

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Tomcat

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Get it done: liaise closely with our customers’ developers, write code and make successful Backbase implementations happen.

Meet the job

As a Principal Backend Engineer, you help the organization to ensure the technical vision is known and implemented in development activities. You help prototyping and validating new architecture and technology ideas, ways of working, efficiency gains and refactoring initiatives. You work across departments, foster collaboration, and are the face of our product vision and success, both internally and externally. You also interact with teams from pre-sales and Customer Success to ensure technology feedback from customers and field engineers is incorporated. You provide advice based on experience and deep technical understanding of software development, practices and frameworks. You lead by example, radiate our way of working and our path to success. You take on the expert role in all topics related to Backend.

Backbase provides a modern software solution developed in the microservices architecture, ensuring financial institutions can build on the top of cutting-edge technology. As such, many modern principles have been adopted such as continuous integration and delivery. We have also adopted Agile practices that contribute to rapid delivery, with decisions being driven out of the team with autonomy rather than top down.

The underlying technology runs on the best of breed technology available today such as Spring Boot, coupled with our own in-house libraries to ensure consistent delivery to a highly regulated banking market. Our technology drives solutions in a variety of ways for customers, from Cloud-native, globally scaled deployments to on-premise managed application servers, demanding smart thinking and innovative solutions from our people.

How about you?

Your goal is to seamlessly integrate the Backbase platform into our customers’ systems and lead/manage our team of BE engineers. During projects, you take on the expert role for anything related to the backend and bring home components that can be reused or developed further.

• You have a solid background in software development, design and architectural patterns;
• 2-3 Years of experience in the banking domain or Fintech products will be considered an advantage
• You are able to communicate clearly and confidently across all levels to get buy-ins from technical stakeholders as well as from your team members;
• You have excellent communication skills in English, spoken and written;
• You have experience with Java, Spring, Maven, Docker, CI and CD;
• You have strong experience with microservices;
• You are experienced in Cloud-native deployments (AWS, Azure, OpenShift, Kubernetes) and traditional application servers (Tomcat);
• You are knowledgeable of relational databases (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL);
• You have good understanding of non-functionals such as security, performance, scalability, etc.;
• You have a good understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns;
• You know what "perfection" looks like in a given context and you can formulate a plan to achieve the desired state;
• You have experience as a technical leader and line manager.

Note: This job is hybrid in Guadalajara, Mexico or CDMX. Are you able to attend the office 2 days a week?

How many years of experience do you have in the banking domain or working with Fintech products?

How much exposure do you have working with technical stakeholders, clients and international key contacts?