Senior Backend Engineer - PayLink
- Jeddah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Full-time
- POSTED 27 DAYS AGO
About the job
You design and build payment-critical backend services end to end on a modern Java stack, with a high bar for correctness, reliability and security.
What you'll do
Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs on Java / Spring Boot. Ensure correctness and reliability under load. Build robust integrations and event-driven flows. Write thorough tests and help maintain high engineering standards. Mentor mid-level engineers. Requirements
5+ years in Java backend with Spring Boot. Hands-on payments / fintech experience is required - you have worked on real payment or financial-transaction systems. Hands-on experience with at least one payment processor or gateway (e.g. MPGS, Cybersource or mada). This is a requirement for this role. Strong microservices and REST API design; relational databases. Solid grasp of transactional integrity and reliability. Containers / CI/CD and strong automated testing. AI-augmented engineering - you actively use AI coding tools such as Claude Code in your day-to-day development. This is a requirement for this role. Nice to have
Experience with more than one payment processor / gateway. Cloud platforms (OCI, AWS or Azure); Kafka.