About the Job
We are looking for a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join a core engineering team and contribute to building scalable products and technology platforms from the ground up. This is a strong individual contributor role for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, writing high-quality code, and taking ownership across the complete software development lifecycle.
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The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java, Spring Framework, object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design. You will contribute to building reliable and scalable technology solutions for a fast-growing consumer fintech environment.
Salary Range
INR 45,00,000 - INR 47,00,000 (Rs 4.5 - 4.7 LPA)
Location
India, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Job Type
Full-time
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable software applications and backend services.
- Participate in the complete software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis through production monitoring.
- Translate functional and technical requirements into reliable and maintainable software solutions.
- Develop high-quality backend applications using Java and Spring Framework.
- Apply strong object-oriented programming principles, design patterns, and clean coding practices.
- Design efficient solutions using appropriate data structures and algorithms.
- Evaluate technical trade-offs and make sound design decisions based on scalability, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
- Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architecture and platform decisions.
- Write comprehensive unit, integration, and functional tests to ensure application quality.
- Proactively identify potential bugs, edge cases, performance issues, and reliability risks before they reach production.
- Debug complex application issues and perform detailed root-cause analysis.
- Support application deployment, production releases, monitoring, and post-deployment troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and other engineering teams to deliver features end-to-end.
- Review code and contribute to engineering standards, development practices, and technical documentation.
- Identify opportunities for performance optimisation, automation, refactoring, and technical debt reduction.
- Take ownership of assigned technical initiatives and drive them through design, implementation, testing, and production delivery.
- Contribute to building scalable products and platforms suitable for high-volume consumer applications.
- Continuously learn and adopt modern software engineering practices and technologies.
What Makes You a Great Fit
- 7+ years of strong individual-contributor experience in software engineering or backend development.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java and the Spring Framework / Spring Boot ecosystem.
- Excellent understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
- Proven experience designing and developing scalable backend applications and services.
- Strong understanding of design trade-offs involving performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Experience working across the complete software development lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Strong debugging skills and a proactive mindset toward identifying hidden defects and edge cases before production.
- Experience building products or platforms for high-scale internet businesses, startups, fintech, or consumer technology environments is preferred.
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, clean code, design patterns, testing, and version control.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and responsibility for technical outcomes.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a high-performing engineering team.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for solving complex technical challenges.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where engineers are expected to take significant ownership and contribute beyond narrowly defined responsibilities.
