About our Team:
Our team is building a new generation of digital financial platforms and applications focused on reliability, scalability, and innovation. As a Senior Backend Engineer at GoTymeX, you will collaborate with skilled engineers to design, develop, and maintain backend services that power our digital banking products. You will work closely with cross-functional teams in a dynamic Agile environment, ensuring high-quality deliverables from development through deployment and monitoring.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend services and APIs that meet performance, scalability, and security requirements
- Participate in architectural discussions and contribute technical expertise to enhance system design
- Collaborate effectively with team members across DevOps, QA, and product teams to deliver features on schedule
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues to ensure service availability and reliability
- Continuously improve code quality through code reviews, refactoring, and automation
Requirements
Must-have Qualifications:
- At least 3 years of experience in backend software development
- Strong programming skills in one or more programming languages such as Python, or equivalent
- Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design and query optimization
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and container technologies
- Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies
- Ability to analyze complex problems and design appropriate solutions
- Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficiency in microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and serverless computing environments
- Experience with Python frameworks including Django and Flask
- Familiarity with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform
- Prior experience within the financial or banking sectors is considered advantageous
Desired Skills:
- AI/LLM Engineering: Demonstrated experience integrating large language models for applications including customer support chatbots, document processing, or decision support systems
- Understanding of Financial Concepts: Knowledge of transaction lifecycles, accounting, reconciliation, and settlement processes
- Proficiency in programming languages including Golang, Python
- Experience with frameworks within the Spring ecosystem, recognizing that the majority of backend services utilize Spring technologies
- Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS/EKS, Fargate, Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, MSK, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, S3, among others
Our Engineering Principles:
In addition to technical skills, we seek individuals who embody the following core principles:
- Simplicity over complexity: Prioritize the simplest effective solutions; complexity presents unnecessary challenges and costs
- Lean over lavish: Design cost-effective architectures that maximize value. Critically evaluate all expenditures
- Pragmatism over perfection: Deliver value incrementally. Strive for a good enough solution today rather than a perfect solution indefinitely
- Outcomes over outputs: Assess success based on tangible business impact—such as loans disbursed, default rates reduced, or costs saved—rather than technical elegance alone
- Enablement over heroics: Foster team success and collaboration rather than relying on individual heroics
- Learning over knowing: Embrace a growth mindset by acknowledging gaps in knowledge, experimenting, learning from failures, and iterating rapidly
- Empathy over ego: Listen attentively, respect diverse perspectives, and assume positive intent in all interactions.
