Senior Backend Developer
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Senior Backend Developer - Fintech Innovation
About the Role: This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company seeking an experienced Senior Backend Developer in India. This is a significant opportunity to contribute to the development of highly scalable, secure, and performant financial technology solutions serving a global clientele. You will be instrumental in designing, enhancing, and maintaining backend services that underpin critical digital asset and blockchain platforms. Working within a dynamic, innovation-focused environment, your technical decisions will prioritize reliability, scalability, and security. This role offers the chance to collaborate with international engineering teams, build robust APIs, microservices, and backend infrastructures capable of supporting substantial growth, and contribute to the architecture of cutting-edge fintech products that ensure seamless user experiences across complex distributed systems. If you are passionate about backend engineering, modern financial infrastructure, and large-scale platform performance, this role is for you.
Key Accountabilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs for scalable financial and blockchain platforms.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, designers, stakeholders) to translate requirements into efficient backend architectures.
- Optimize and enhance existing Node.js backend services for improved scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Develop new microservices and backend solutions utilizing RPC and other service integration methods for distributed systems.
- Write and optimize complex database queries for operational, compliance, and financial reporting.
- Implement and uphold strong backend security standards and best practices to protect platform integrity and user data.
- Contribute to high-availability architectures and ensure real-time service responsiveness as the platform scales globally.
- Participate in troubleshooting, debugging, and continuous improvement initiatives for backend infrastructure and services.
- Support agile development methodologies and contribute to the delivery of innovative features and platform enhancements.
Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in backend development using JavaScript and Node.js.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed backend systems.
- Proven experience developing complex, high-scale platforms or applications.
- Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB).
- Solid understanding of backend security principles, secure API design, and best development practices.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, tools, and technical environments.
- Familiarity with high-availability systems, real-time services, and scalable backend infrastructures.
- Blockchain integrations or decentralized technologies experience is a significant advantage.
- Knowledge of technologies such as Redis, message queues, caches, and background job processing tools is highly desirable.
- Exposure to Ruby and Ruby on Rails is considered a plus.
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the ability to thrive in remote, collaborative teams.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
Benefits:
- Fully remote work environment with global flexibility.
- Opportunity to collaborate with globally distributed teams and industry experts.
- Competitive compensation package commensurate with experience.
- Exposure to cutting-edge fintech, blockchain, and digital asset technologies.
- Flexible work culture promoting autonomy, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Engage in challenging large-scale engineering projects with global impact.
- Inclusive and collaborative environment focused on technical excellence and growth.
- Contribute to highly scalable, security-focused infrastructure.
- Fast-paced, innovation-driven culture encouraging ownership and creativity.
Company
Jobgether
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