Job Overview
Lead Backend Engineer – Core Banking Platform
📍 Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time | Permanent
🌍 Work Model: Hybrid | Engineering Leadership
🏦 Industry: Fintech | Digital Banking | Banking Infrastructure | Cloud Computing | Financial Technology
Build the Digital Core of Tomorrow’s Banking Ecosystem
A rapidly scaling fintech innovator is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to architect and develop the mission-critical services that power next-generation banking products. This is an opportunity to work on high-availability financial systems that process millions of secure transactions while maintaining exceptional speed, resilience, and scalability.
As a senior member of the engineering organization, you will collaborate with software architects, cloud engineers, cybersecurity specialists, DevOps professionals, and product managers to deliver enterprise-grade backend platforms that redefine digital banking across the Gulf.
Key Responsibilities
- Design scalable backend architectures for digital banking applications.
- Develop secure microservices supporting payments, lending, and customer onboarding.
- Build high-performance RESTful APIs and event-driven services.
- Optimize databases, distributed caching, and asynchronous processing pipelines.
- Integrate banking platforms with third-party financial APIs.
- Improve platform resilience through observability, monitoring, and automated recovery.
- Participate in architecture reviews and engineering governance.
- Mentor software engineers and promote coding best practices.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD and infrastructure automation.
- Continuously enhance application security and system performance.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years of backend software development experience.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
- Experience delivering enterprise financial or high-volume transaction platforms.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Technology Stack
- Java
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kafka
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- AWS
- GitHub Actions
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Benefits
- Competitive tax-efficient salary
- Annual performance bonus
- Housing allowance
- Private healthcare
- Annual airfare
- Flexible hybrid working
- Sponsored professional certifications
- Technology conference sponsorship
- Leadership development programme
Take ownership of the backend systems that will power the next generation of digital banking experiences throughout the Gulf region.
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!
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