Full Time

High-Scale Fintech Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer

  • Remote
  • Specialism : Digital payment, Payments
  • Post Date: August 10, 2026
  • Expires In : 91 Days
  • Apply Before: November 10, 2026
Job Overview

🇶🇦 QATAR

ENGINEER

High-Scale Fintech Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer

Location: Qatar — Remote / GCC Regional Coverage
Seniority Level: Senior / Principal Engineering
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Industry Focus: Fintech • Digital Banking • Payments • Distributed Systems • Cloud Infrastructure • Financial APIs

ENGINEERING THE SYSTEMS THAT MOVE MONEY.

We are seeking an exceptional High-Scale Fintech Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer to architect and develop backend infrastructure capable of supporting sophisticated financial applications, high transaction volumes and mission-critical digital services.

This is a backend engineering role where performance, consistency, resilience and scalability are fundamental engineering requirements.

THE ARCHITECTURE

CLIENT REQUEST

API GATEWAY

BUSINESS LOGIC

TRANSACTION SERVICES

EVENT STREAM

DATA LAYER

ANALYTICS & RECONCILIATION

You will contribute across this architecture while specializing in backend systems.

CORE ENGINEERING MANDATE

Architecture

  • Design scalable backend services and microservice architectures.

  • Develop APIs supporting financial applications.

  • Build asynchronous and event-driven processing systems.

Transaction Engineering

  • Implement reliable transaction-processing workflows.

  • Design idempotent and fault-tolerant services.

  • Handle concurrency and distributed-system challenges.

Data

  • Design high-performance relational data models.

  • Optimize queries and database performance.

  • Implement caching and event-streaming strategies.

Reliability

  • Develop monitoring, logging and observability frameworks.

  • Diagnose production incidents.

  • Engineer graceful failure and recovery mechanisms.

TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT

Java | Kotlin | Go | Python | Spring Boot | PostgreSQL | Redis | Kafka | REST | gRPC | Docker | Kubernetes | AWS/Azure/GCP | Microservices

ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES

Low Latency • High Availability • Fault Tolerance • Data Integrity • Idempotency • Scalability • Observability

IDEAL PROFILE

A backend engineer with strong experience building distributed, transaction-intensive or high-availability systems.

Experience within payments, digital banking, fintech, financial APIs or large-scale technology platforms is highly desirable.

You should be comfortable asking not only:

“Does the service work?”

but:

“What happens when 100,000 requests arrive simultaneously and one critical dependency fails?”

Compensation: Premium senior-engineering package with performance incentives, benefits and opportunities for advancement into principal-level technical leadership.

Are you excited about this opportunity?

Don’t miss the chance to make a difference in the fintech and FX industry!

 Apply now by clicking on the “Apply Now” button below. 

Let’s shape the future of finance together!

#EmploySolutionJobs #FXCareers. 

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