About our Team:

Our team is building a new generation of digital financial platforms and applications focused on reliability, scalability, and innovation. As a Senior Backend Engineer at GoTymeX, you will collaborate with skilled engineers to design, develop, and maintain backend services that power our digital banking products. You will work closely with cross-functional teams in a dynamic Agile environment, ensuring high-quality deliverables from development through deployment and monitoring.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend services and APIs that meet performance, scalability, and security requirements
Participate in architectural discussions and contribute technical expertise to enhance system design
Collaborate effectively with team members across DevOps, QA, and product teams to deliver features on schedule
Troubleshoot and resolve production issues to ensure service availability and reliability
Continuously improve code quality through code reviews, refactoring, and automation

Requirements

Must-have Qualifications:

At least 3 years of experience in backend software development
Strong programming skills in one or more programming languages such as Python, or equivalent
Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design and query optimization
Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and container technologies
Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies
Ability to analyze complex problems and design appropriate solutions
Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment

Preferred Qualifications:

Proficiency in microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and serverless computing environments
Experience with Python frameworks including Django and Flask
Familiarity with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform
Prior experience within the financial or banking sectors is considered advantageous

Desired Skills:

AI/LLM Engineering: Demonstrated experience integrating large language models for applications including customer support chatbots, document processing, or decision support systems
Understanding of Financial Concepts: Knowledge of transaction lifecycles, accounting, reconciliation, and settlement processes
Proficiency in programming languages including Golang, Python
Experience with frameworks within the Spring ecosystem, recognizing that the majority of backend services utilize Spring technologies
Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS/EKS, Fargate, Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, MSK, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, S3, among others

Our Engineering Principles:

In addition to technical skills, we seek individuals who embody the following core principles:

Simplicity over complexity: Prioritize the simplest effective solutions; complexity presents unnecessary challenges and costs
Lean over lavish: Design cost-effective architectures that maximize value. Critically evaluate all expenditures
Pragmatism over perfection: Deliver value incrementally. Strive for a good enough solution today rather than a perfect solution indefinitely
Outcomes over outputs: Assess success based on tangible business impact—such as loans disbursed, default rates reduced, or costs saved—rather than technical elegance alone
Enablement over heroics: Foster team success and collaboration rather than relying on individual heroics
Learning over knowing: Embrace a growth mindset by acknowledging gaps in knowledge, experimenting, learning from failures, and iterating rapidly
Empathy over ego: Listen attentively, respect diverse perspectives, and assume positive intent in all interactions.

Senior Backend Engineer - India