Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Developer – Drive Innovation in Fintech

• Revolutionising Financial Technology with Scalable Solutions
• 97% Remote
• Unmatched Career Growth, Upskilling & Development

This role offers the opportunity to work on high-performance, low-latency systems that power critical trading and risk platforms. Using Scala, Akka, Cassandra, SQL, and Azure, the focus is on building real-time financial applications that process massive amounts of data with speed and precision.

With a strong emphasis on career growth and continuous learning, this position provides direct access to mentorship, hands-on training, and opportunities to master cutting-edge technologies in a fast-moving fintech environment. Collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and technical excellence are at the core of the team culture.

A remote-first, flexible work environment ensures a healthy work-life balance. The competitive benefits package includes bonuses, wellness initiatives, and access to premium learning resources to support both personal and professional development.

This is an opportunity to contribute to a team that values innovation, flexibility, and technical expertise, while accelerating career progression in a dynamic financial landscape.

You will:

• Collaborate with Business Analysts helping to define the solution and ensuring technical requirements have been incorporated
• Work on a regulatory reporting application
• Aggregate large datasets
• Ensuring development aligns to agreed standards and is of a high quality
• Evaluating and adopting new techniques to advance the platform
• Day to day support of the platform to help diagnose and fix production issues

Skills/Experience:

• Scala (minimum 3 years)
• Software development experience (minimum 3 years)
• Experience implementing restful APIs and Microservices
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience working in Agile team (Scrum and/or Kanban)
• Experience working on large projects in a fast-paced environment

Salary / Remuneration: €80,000 - €95,000 – 10k bonus, plus generous benefits package, strong work-life balance

For more information contact Stefanie confidentially on +353 1 9609 165 or email your CV to [email protected]. I specialise in recruiting for Software Engineers, if you wish to discuss this or other opportunities, please feel free to contact me. For more opportunities, visit: https://www.archer.ie/candidates/

About Archer – Archer Recruitment is a Specialist IT Recruitment Consultancy based in Ireland.