Senior Backend Developer at Payfuture

Birkirkara, Central Region, Malta -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

30 Jul, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

01 May, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, RESTful APIs, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Payment Processing, System Architecture

Industry

Financial Services

Description

We are on the lookout for a Senior Backend Developer who thrives on building reliable, secure, and scalable systems. In this role, you’ll be working at the core of PayFuture’s payments infrastructure, powering pay-ins, payouts, currency conversions, and real-time settlements across continents. We’re looking for engineers with experience in JAVA based microservices and a deep understanding of building backend services in the financial space. As our Senior Backend Engineer, you will have these main objectives: ● Build, maintain, and scale payment processing services using Java (Spring Boot) ● Design RESTful APIs and asynchronous services used by merchants and internal tools ● Work closely with Product, DevOps, and Frontend teams to deliver features end-to-end ● Implement systems that ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and data integrity ● Write unit, integration, and performance tests ● Participate in system architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical planning ● Monitor, debug, and optimise backend systems in production You will be a good fit if you: ● Have 8+ years of backend development experience with JAVA (SpringBoot) ● Have a deep understanding of microservices architecture, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and relational databases (MySQL,PostgreSQL) ● Are experienced with payment processing, settlement systems, or bank integrations ● Have a strong focus on clean code, design patterns, and scalable system design ● Are familiar with cloud services (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools ● Have prior exposure to containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) is a plus ● Are fluent in English, both written and spoken Bonus Points if you are: ● Knowledgeable of PCI-DSS or other compliance requirements in financial systems ● Experienced with internationalisation and currency conversions ● Familiar with distributed tracing and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)

Responsibilities

You will build, maintain, and scale payment processing services using Java and Spring Boot while designing RESTful APIs and asynchronous services. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and data integrity across the infrastructure.