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 Engineering: Advanced skill in con

📌 Staff engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Backbase
📍 Hyderabad