Location - Abu Dhabi

Salary – 18,000 AED/month

Requirements:

• 2–3+ years of backend engineering experience in a product-led or startup environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java (17+) and Spring Boot; Java 21 preferred.
• Solid understanding of backend fundamentals, including:
• API design and data modelling
• Distributed systems basics
• Security-by-design principles
• Performance optimization and scalability
• Experience working with Postgres and familiarity with NoSQL patterns (MongoDB is a plus).
• Comfortable with cloud-native development and CI/CD pipelines (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable).
• Proven ability to work independently and take ownership of complex backend features.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain backend services supporting:
• Customer onboarding and KYC workflows
• Credit and underwriting enablement
• Financing disbursements, repayments, and collections
• Internal tools for credit, sales, and operations
• Develop modular, workflow-driven and state-machine-based services that are scalable, reliable, and easy to evolve
• Build clean, well-documented APIs and integration layers for enterprise buyers and ecosystem partners
• Implement event-driven architectures using asynchronous processing to support scalability, auditability, and reliability
• Integrate with third-party platforms including KYC providers, CRM systems, messaging services, ERP/procurement tools, and regional ecosystem APIs
• Ensure robust error handling, retries, idempotency, reconciliation logic, and audit trails
• Work with relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres and MongoDB), ensuring performance and data integrity
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, observability, monitoring, and performance tuning
• Write production-grade, secure code with appropriate unit and integration testing
• Take full ownership of features from requirements and design through to deployment, monitoring, and iteration

About the Role:

We’re seeking a high-ownership Backend Engineer - Java 21 + Spring Boot to build and scale core financial workflows: onboarding, underwriting enablement, disbursement logic, monitoring, collections, and internal tools. This role is ideal for someone who has shipped in product-led startups, can operate independently, and cares deeply about engineering quality, performance, and speed. You’ll work primarily on Java 21 + Spring Boot services in an event-driven, modular architecture - integrating with third-party systems (KYC, ERPs, messaging, CRM) and building reliable, auditable backend capabilities required for fintech.