The Job in Short

At Backbase, we build comprehensive payments functionality into our platform to empower banks worldwide. As a Technical Domain Expert (Staff Engineer Level), you are THE trusted technical authority for our broad payments business domain. Your primary leverage is acting as a force multiplier, applying your deep technical expertise and extensive Payments Domain knowledge to enable teams and deliver value in a complex business and technical domain.

Payments Domain Expertise
- Extensive functional and technical knowledge of global payment rails, specifically covering US, European, and Asian markets
- Deep understanding of payment workflows, compliance, and processing tailored for both Retail banking and SME/Commercial sectors

Meet the Job: Key Responsibilities
- The Solver: Parachute into the hardest technical challenges spanning multiple teams to remove volatility and ambiguity
- Design Ownership: Own high-level design for multi-service capabilities, ensuring security and scalability are embedded from the start
- Technical Project Leadership:



For large strategic initiatives, you step in as the technical lead, driving the architecture and execution strategy across multiple engineering team
- Core Systems Prototyping: Write the complex cores and skeletal systems that other teams build upon
- Execution Focus: You ensure the current quarter is executed with technical excellence
- Bar Raising: Serve as the primary approver for critical-path design reviews and major technical initiatives
- Technical Mentorship: Act as a dedicated mentor and coach for engineers, guiding their technical growth, fostering a high-performance culture, and helping to cultivate future technical leader

AI-Native Engineering & AI Agent Governance
- AI Adoption: Lead the adoption of agentic tooling, and AI automation within your team to accelerate the development lifecycle
- Tooling & Governance: Skill in selecting, configuring, and governing the use of AI tooling
- Context Engine

📌 Staff Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Backbase
📍 Hyderabad