The Digital Banking platform focuses on accelerating financial innovation and enabling recent banking products while maintaining high availability, resilience, observability, and engineering quality. The team builds and modernizes backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, and integration patterns that support reliable delivery at scale.

Joining the Digital Banking technology team means shaping secure, scalable, and resilient banking capabilities that support customer-facing financial experiences. In this role, you will apply deep backend engineering expertise across the software development lifecycle while partnering with product, architecture, operations, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality platform services.

Senior backend engineering role supporting Digital Banking scale, resilience, delivery acceleration, and platform modernization.

Role summary: This role strengthens the Digital Banking engineering bench with senior hands-on backend expertise across secure microservices, APIs, distributed systems, Kafka, reliability, and production readiness.



The position supports faster delivery of banking capabilities while reducing operational risk through stronger engineering quality, observability, scalability, and technical leadership. GenAI/RAG/LLM exposure is positioned as a primary differentiator, not a core hiring requirement.

As part of the team, you will work in a culture focused on engineering excellence, shared ownership, and continuous improvement. You will stay hands-on while influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and partnering across product and business teams to deliver secure, customer-facing financial capabilities.
- 8+ years of software development experience; bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical discipline preferred.
- Strong hands-on backend engineering experience with Java and its frameworks.
- Extensive hands-on experience building distributed applications and operati

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