Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Growth & Benefits

First Circle; Manila; Remote; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Macbooks

Private health insurance

Training budgets

Travel opportunities

Job summary

First Circle is expanding its senior engineering team in a primarily remote setup, with optional office work. We’re building and operating production-grade backend services and APIs, emphasizing speed, reliability, and scalable architecture.

As a senior developer, you’ll shape features end-to-end, collaborate with product and design, and help drive growth across SE Asia. Prior fintech or banking experience is a strong plus, and curiosity about AI is valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems in Kotlin, Java, or Ruby.
• Strong foundations in API design and relational databases.
• Experience in fintech, payroll, payments, or banking is a strong plus.
• Hands-on production experience: debugging, incidents, resilience.
• Adaptable to fast-moving environments with evolving priorities.
• Curiosity about AI and practical usage of AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve backend services and APIs that are fast, reliable, and easy to change.
• Take features from idea to production: shape approach with product and design, ship, measure, and improve.
• Help make architectural decisions and balance speed with robust long-term solutions.
• Keep services running smoothly with clear monitoring, quick responses, and user support.
• Review code, share knowledge, and help other engineers grow.
• Collaborate across product, design, and business to translate needs into technical solutions.

Skills

Backend development

Kotlin/Java/Ruby

API design

Relational databases

Production systems

Fintech experience

AI curiosity

Job description

First Circle is expanding its senior engineering team in a primarily remote setup, with optional office work. We’re building and operating production-grade backend services and APIs, emphasizing speed, reliability, and scalable architecture.

As a senior developer, you’ll shape features end-to-end, collaborate with product and design, and help drive growth across SE Asia. Prior fintech or banking experience is a strong plus, and curiosity about AI is valued.