We are looking for a Backend Engineer - Java 21 + Spring Boot for a FinTech Company in Abu Dhabi.
Location – Abu Dhabi, UAE
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.
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