Backend – Lead Engineer (Next Generation Financial Systems Business)

Full Time
  • August 25, 2026
  • Employment Info

    Must have all of the following experience as an engineer:

    • Technical lead experience
      • Experience in a role equivalent to a lead engineer on a project or team
    • Application development
      • Experience with type-safe programming
      • Understanding of front-end development
      • Experience with server-side architecture and API design
      • Experience with test automation design and implementation to support the above
    • Infrastructure design and operations
      • Experience designing and building cloud infrastructure using IaC
      • Experience using managed services from AWS, GCP, or Azure
      • Experience designing cloud-native architectures, primarily containers and serverless
      • Experience designing and operating with security best practices in mind
    • Database
      • Experience designing and optimizing schemas, both relational and NoSQL
      • Experience planning and executing performance tuning and large-scale data migrations
    • CI/CD and development operations
      • Experience designing and building CI pipelines tailored to the characteristics of the codebase, such as monorepos and multirepos
      • Experience designing and building CD pipelines tailored to deployment frequency and environment
      • Experience designing and implementing security and secret management in CI/CD
    • Observability
      • Experience designing and operating systems incorporating logging, metrics, and tracing
    • Communication
      • Ability to accurately articulate and structure technical issues and requirements
      • Strong contextual comprehension and summarization skills to facilitate discussions and reviews
      • Writing skills to systematically design and write development documents and specifications
    • Cross-disciplinary decision-making skills
      • Interest in multiple fields, not just the backend, and the ability to derive optimal solutions tailored to the situation
      • Ability to structure and execute even in highly uncertain phases

     

    Welcome requirements

    Experience with any of the following is preferred:

    • Programming languages
    • TypeScript, Go, Rust, Perl, Haskell, Scala, C++, etc.
    • Front-end frameworks
    • React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Solid, Riot, Remix, Astro, etc.
    • Back-end frameworks
    • Express, Koa, NestJS, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Ruby on Rails, Spring Boot, Laravel, etc.
    • Infrastructure development (laCtu-ru)
    • CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, Azure Bicep, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.
    • Major cloud services
    • AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, DynamoDB, EKS, ECS, SQS, etc.)
    • GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, App Engine, GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud PubSub/VPC/Cloud IAM, etc.)
    • Azure (Virtual Machines/Blob Storage/SQL Database/Functions/Virtual Network/Entra ID/App Service/Cosmos DB/AKS/Service Bus, etc.)
    • System development and operation experience in the financial sector
    • Product development experience using blockchain technology
    • Large-scale data design, operation, and analysis (data scientist area)
    • Experience in PSIRT/CSIRT launch and operation, SIEM design and construction, and log infrastructure development
    • IoT/device development experience (Raspberry Pi/Arduino/M5Stack, etc.)
    • Product management (PdM) or engineering management experience
    • Experience collaborating with and leading design/marketing teams

     

    Desired profile

    • Business-Driven Technical Decisions
      Ability to make optimal technical decisions based on business goals, even in a changing business environment and requirements.
    • Leadership and Development
      Ability to not only work hands-on, but also to create an environment where team members can take the initiative in development, promote growth, and lead technical discussions and communication.
    • Organizational Improvement
      Ability to promote the creation of systems that enhance the technical capabilities of the entire team through design philosophy, review policies, and documentation.
    • Problem Identification and Resolution Skills
      Ability to accurately identify essential issues not only in the systems field but in all areas necessary for product success, and to proactively lead the development and implementation of solutions.

     

     

     

     

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