Senior Backend Engineer - PayLink

Employment: Full-time Experience: Mid-Senior level Education: Bachelor's Degree You design and build payment-critical backend services end to end on a modern Java stack, with a high bar for correctness, reliability and security. What you'll do Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs on Java / Spring Boot. Ensure correctness and reliability under load. Build robust integrations and event-driven flows. Write thorough tests and help maintain high engineering standards. Mentor mid-level engineers. Requirements 5+ years in Java backend with Spring Boot. Hands-on payments / fintech experience is required — you have worked on real payment or financial-transaction systems. Hands-on experience with at least one payment processor or gateway (e.g. MPGS, Cybersource or mada). This is a requirement for this role. Strong microservices and REST API design; relational databases. Solid grasp of transactional integrity and reliability. Containers / CI/CD and strong automated testing. AI-augmented engineering — you actively use AI coding tools such as Claude Code in your day-to-day development. This is a requirement for this role. Nice to have Experience with more than one payment processor / gateway. Cloud platforms (OCI, AWS or Azure); Kafka.