Role Description Our team is building a new generation of digital financial platforms and applications focused on reliability, scalability, and innovation. As a Senior Backend Engineer at GoTymeX, you will collaborate with skilled engineers to design, develop, and maintain backend services that power our digital banking products. You will work closely with cross-functional teams in a dynamic Agile environment, ensuring high-quality deliverables from development through deployment and monitoring. - Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend services and APIs that meet performance, scalability, and security requirements. - Participate in architectural discussions and contribute technical expertise to enhance system design. - Collaborate effectively with team members across DevOps, QA, and product teams to deliver features on schedule. - Troubleshoot and resolve production issues to ensure service availability and reliability. - Continuously improve code quality through code reviews, refactoring, and automation. Qualifications - At least 3 years of experience in backend software development. - Strong programming skills in one or more programming languages such as Python, or equivalent. - Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design and query optimization. - Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and container technologies. - Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies. - Ability to analyze complex problems and design appropriate solutions. - Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment. Requirements - Proficiency in microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and serverless computing environments. - Experience with Python frameworks including Django and Flask. - Familiarity with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform. - Prior experience within the financial or banking sectors is considered advantageous. Desired Skills - AI/LLM Engineering: Demonstrated experience integrating large language models for applications including customer support chatbots, document processing, or decision support systems. - Understanding of Financial Concepts: Knowledge of transaction lifecycles, accounting, reconciliation, and settlement processes. - Proficiency in programming languages including Golang, Python. - Experience with frameworks within the Spring ecosystem, recognizing that the majority of backend services utilize Spring technologies. - Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS/EKS, Fargate, Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, MSK, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, S3, among others. Our Engineering Principles - Simplicity over complexity: Prioritize the simplest effective solutions; complexity presents unnecessary challenges and costs. - Lean over lavish: Design cost-effective architectures that maximize value. Critically evaluate all expenditures. - Pragmatism over perfection: Deliver value incrementally. Strive for a "good enough" solution today rather than a "perfect" solution indefinitely. - Outcomes over outputs: Assess success based on tangible business impact—such as loans disbursed, default rates reduced, or costs saved—rather than technical elegance alone. - Enablement over heroics: Foster team success and collaboration rather than relying on individual heroics. - Learning over knowing: Embrace a growth mindset by acknowledging gaps in knowledge, experimenting, learning from failures, and iterating rapidly. - Empathy over ego: Listen attentively, respect diverse perspectives, and assume positive intent in all interactions.