About the Team
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Backend Senior Software Engineer (Node.js / API) to join the Digital Business Banking team. This team is responsible for building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services supporting payments, onboarding, and money movement workflows.
As an Engineer, you will drive API strategy, and ensure delivery of robust, cloud-native microservices aligned with enterprise banking platforms.
What You Will Be Doing
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Own the end-to-end backend design, and implementation of scalable API-driven systems.
- Lead development using Node.js, TypeScript, and microservices architecture.
- Define standards for API design, service communication, data flow, event-driven patterns, and security.
- Evaluate modern tools and technologies to enhance system scalability, resilience, and observability.
Core Engineering & Delivery
- Design and build RESTful APIs, backend services, and event-driven applications.
- Develop and maintain microservices hosted on AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, SQS/SNS).
- Ensure high performance, scalability, and fault tolerance across distributed systems.
- Guide implementation of API Gateway (Kong preferred), service mesh, and integration frameworks.
Problem Solving & Technical Ownership
- Translate business and domain requirements into scalable backend solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across services, integrations, and cloud environments.
- Optimize application performance, latency, memory usage, and data processing efficiency.
Quality, Testing & Governance
- Implement strong backend testing practices including unit, integration, and contract testing.
- Drive code quality using static code analysis, security scanning (DevSecOps), and best practices.
- Introduce governance for observability, logging, monitoring, and CI/CD automation.
Collaboration & Mentoring
- Work with Product, Frontend, QA, Cloud, Security, and Architecture teams.
- Mentor developers and drive adoption of backend best practices and standards.
- Lead design discussions, API reviews, and technical roadmap planning.
What You Bring
- 7–10+ years of backend development experience with leadership responsibilities.
- Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Express/NestJS frameworks.
- Deep knowledge of REST APIs, microservices architecture, and integration patterns.
- Experience with AWS cloud services (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, RDS).
- Strong database experience with SQL (Oracle/SQL Server) and distributed data systems.
- Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems (Kafka/SNS/SQS).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices.
- Familiarity with API Gateway (Kong preferred) and API lifecycle management.
- Exposure to security best practices and DevSecOps workflows.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical capabilities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Nice to Have: Exposure to AI/LLM integrations, real-time processing
What We Offer You
- Leadership role in building critical backend systems for digital banking platforms.
- Opportunity to design large-scale distributed systems in a FinTech environment.
- Collaborative and innovation-driven culture.
- Access to continuous learning and career growth opportunities.
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