Director of Engineering – Core Platforms

Infina; Fatih; On-site; TRY 300,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Infina is seeking an engineering leader to drive technical strategy and people leadership in a fast-paced fintech context. You will guide end-to-end engineering, modernize core platforms, and collaborate with Architecture to implement integration across systems.

You will steer the move from monolith to microservices while maintaining production stability. The role requires deep Java expertise (Spring Boot, Redis, Kafka), strong incident management, and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with strong leadership experience.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams and delivering complex programs.
• Experience building high-availability systems in financial services.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional communication.
• Proficient in Java ecosystem: Spring Boot, Redis, Kafka.
• Designed and operated microservices with service decomposition.
• Proven incident management and postmortem discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams end to end: people, delivery and production health.
• Own the technical roadmap for modernizing core platforms with Product alignment.
• Collaborate with Architecture to shape integration across core systems.
• Guide migration from monolith to microservices with minimal disruption.
• Establish engineering standards: automated testing, runbooks and capacity planning.
• Drive AI-assisted development with security and code-review guardrails.
• Ensure delivery meets regulatory and security requirements.

Skills

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Java ecosystem

Spring Boot

Redis

Kafka

Microservices

Distributed systems

Incident management

Architecture collaboration

Job description

Infina is a leading financial technology company, providing software solutions for portfolio management, brokerage, and capital markets. It serves financial institutions with platforms covering investment management, trading, back-office operations, and related financial services.

The role

We are looking for an engineering leader who combines deep technical judgment with strong people leadership.

What you will do

• Lead engineering teams end to end; people, delivery and production health.
• Own the technical roadmap for modernizing our core platforms, working closely with Product and Architecture.
• Partner with Architecture to shape the integration architecture between core systems and own its implementation across engineering teams
• Guide the incremental move from monolith to microservices without disrupting business-critical operations.
• Establish engineering standards: automated testing with diff-coverage gates, postmortems and runbooks, capacity planning and epic-level estimation that feed quarterly decisions.
• Drive the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development under clear security, confidentiality and code-review guardrails, with accountable human review and approval.
• Ensure delivery meets regulatory and security requirements

What you bring

• 15+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to align Engineering, Product, Architecture, QA and DevOps around shared priorities.
• Experience building and running business-critical, high-availability systems, preferably in financial services.
• Strong hands-on experience with the Java ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Redis and Kafka.
• Proven experience designing, building and operating microservices architectures in production, including service decomposition, inter-service communication and observability.
• Hands-on depth in distributed systems and event-driven architecture
• A track record of migrating monoliths to microservices incrementally while keeping production stable.
• Ownership of production; incident management, root-cause analysis and operational discipline.

Nice to have

• Direct experience in capital markets, brokerage systems or trading platforms.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted or agentic software development workflows.
• Experience leading large-scale platform modernization or system integration initiatives spanning multiple products.
• Experience working in regulated industries with demanding security, audit and business-continuity requirements.