We are partnered with an established financial services organisation to look for a lead for Backend Engineering. This is a pivotal role within a highly collaborative, global agile environment where you will act as both a hands-on technical authority and an engineering people leader. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional product teams, technical architects, and product owners to design, develop, and deploy complex enterprise microservices.
Key Responsibilitie
- sAct as the primary custodian for backend engineering excellence, enforcing robust code repository quality, modern technical standards, and system design best practices while actively minimizing technical debt
- .Provide functional leadership and technical direction to a dedicated engineering chapter of 5+ members. You will foster a culture of continuous learning, host internal knowledge-sharing workshops, and manage strategic chapter capacity, succession planning, and risk mitigation
- .Contribute directly to squad deliverables and agile sprints by developing scalable, secure backend systems, writing clean code, creating technical solution diagrams, and designing complex microservices architecture
- .Independently oversee, maintain, and optimize continuous integration and deployment workflows, utilizing automated build tools and container orchestration platforms
- .Partner closely with Security Champions to conduct comprehensive security impact assessments, ensuring all production software releases comply with strict corporate risk controls and data protection guidelines
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Experience & Backgroun
- d:At least 8 years of deep technical experience within the software engineering domain, with a proven track record of leading technical teams or managing an engineering chapte
- r.Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering, MCA, or a closely related technical fiel
- d.Extensive experience operating within modern Agile and Lean frameworks alongside globally distributed, cross-functional delivery team
- s.Advanced, production-level mastery of Java (modern versions), Spring Boot (3.x preferred), and Spring Batc
- h.Thorough understanding of RESTful API design, Microservices architecture, API Gateways, and enterprise security layers (OAuth 2, OIDC
- ).Strong proficiency with Relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle) combined with experience in enterprise integration technologies (e.g., Kafka, MQ, Solace
- ).Practical experience with containerized infrastructure and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift (OCP), or AWS EK
- S.Proficiency managing automated pipelines via Azure DevOps (ADO) or GitHub, utilizing Maven, Gradle, and Helm Chart
- s.Hands-on experience troubleshooting, analyzing logs, and monitoring application health using tools such as the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus, or Grafan
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