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Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Card & Transaction Platform *EU/UK remote* (m/f/d)

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22 days ago
Remote, EMEASenior

Responsibilities

  • Define, measure, and improve SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets for critical services.
  • Scale the platform to support growing customers and transaction volumes.
  • Identify weak points, risky patterns, and capacity limits before they affect customers.
  • Participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation and lead incident response, mitigation, blameless postmortems, and follow-through.
  • Own observability through dashboards, alerting, tracing, and logging, and improve performance across latency-sensitive paths.
  • Design, implement, test, and deliver new product features across Java/Spring Boot microservices.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable, well-tested services.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating distributed backend services with Java and Spring Boot, AWS cloud services, Kafka, and PostgreSQL.
  • Experience operating high-availability systems and scaling systems under increasing load.
  • Fluency with modern observability practices and strong SLO/SLA knowledge.
  • A proactive ownership mindset focused on preventing problems before they occur.
  • Ability to own features end-to-end from design and implementation through testing and delivery.
  • Proven hands-on experience using AI effectively as an engineering tool.
  • Payments, card issuing, transaction processing, PCI DSS, fraud prevention, chaos or resilience testing, capacity planning, load testing, and canary, blue/green, or progressive deployment experience are preferred.

Benefits

  • Attractive remuneration.
  • Choice of preferred operating system: Windows or Mac.
  • Remote-work flexibility for an EU/UK remote role.
  • Pliant Card with monthly credit for exploring the product and enjoying food with colleagues.
  • Opportunity to work in a growing team with knowledge sharing, professional development, and transparent communication.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSDatadogJavaPostgreSQLSpring BootWindows

Categories

BackendSite Reliability
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