About the Job
As a Senior Software Engineer in an award-winning Fintech company based in the UAE, you will play a key role in building the next-generation finance web application. This position offers the opportunity to work on all aspects of the product's platform, enabling you to join a world-class team of engineers. You will tackle high-priority tasks and complex issues, including launching new products from scratch and optimizing their core systems. This is a unique chance to learn about building and scaling a business function in a rapidly growing environment.
What You Will Be Doing
- Architecting and implementing scalable, high-performance investment solutions.
- Collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and deliver on business objectives.
- Ensuring the highest standards of software quality, security, and performance.
- Staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to maintain the platform’s competitive edge.
- Driving agile practices and promoting a collaborative and high-energy work environment.
- Focusing on best engineering practices for quality, clean code, testing, and observability.
Key Skills You Will Bring to the Team
- Proficiency in JVM-based languages, particularly Java and Kotlin, with experience in Spring Boot.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Experience with CI/CD technologies such as GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, and Jenkins.
- Knowledge of containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with queuing and streaming technologies including Kafka, AWS Kinesis, and RabbitMQ.
- Experience with cloud providers, preferably Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Chef, and Ansible.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, and the ELK Stack.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Technical Lead or Senior Software Engineer in fintech or a related field.
- Solid experience with back-end REST API services.
- Ownership, accountability, and proactivity – you build it, you own it, you run it.
- A collaborative mindset with a passion for sharing knowledge and learning from others.
- Strong understanding of clean coding practices and experience with object-oriented and event-driven programming concepts.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a strategic mindset.
- Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Understanding of financial products, trading systems, and financial markets.
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
Benefits
- Enhanced base salary and market-leading bonus structure.
- Visa assistance and relocation support.
- Work alongside talented colleagues from top-tier fintech companies worldwide.
- Additional perks, including top private health and life insurance, flexible working hours, and a hybrid work policy.
- A diverse international work environment with employees from over 40 different nationalities.
If you are interested in this role, please apply now or reach out for more information via email.
