The Role
Lead backend engineering for payment-critical services using Java and Spring Boot. Design APIs, maintain code quality, enforce testing and release readiness, and ensure service reliability and security. Mentor backend engineers while collaborating with architecture and product teams. The role requires hands-on fintech and payment gateway experience, microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code.
Summary Generated by Built In
A hands-on engineering lead who sets technical direction, owns code quality, and builds payment-critical backend services on a modern Java stack, while guiding and growing a team of backend engineers.
What you'll do
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for backend engineering on a modern Java / Spring Boot stack.
- Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs.
- Own code quality: standards, code review, testing and release readiness.
- Ensure correctness, reliability and security across the services the team owns.
- Mentor and grow backend engineers, and work closely with architecture and product.
Requirements
- 8+ years in Java backend with strong Spring Boot.
- Proven technical leadership while remaining hands-on in the code.
- Hands-on payments / fintech experience is required — you have worked on real payment or financial-transaction systems.
- Hands-on experience with at least one payment processor or gateway (e.g. MPGS, Cybersource or mada). This is a requirement for this role.
- Strong microservices, REST API design, relational databases and automated testing.
- Delivery on containers (Kubernetes) with CI/CD.
- AI-augmented engineering — you actively use AI coding tools such as Claude Code in your day-to-day development. This is a requirement for this role.
Nice to have
- Experience with more than one payment processor / gateway.
- Cloud platforms (OCI, AWS or Azure); event-driven systems (Kafka).
Skills Required
- 8+ years of Java backend engineering experience with strong Spring Boot expertise
- Proven technical leadership while remaining hands-on in code
- Hands-on payments or fintech experience with real payment or financial-transaction systems
- Hands-on experience with at least one payment processor or gateway, such as MPGS, Cybersource, or mada
- Strong microservices experience
- REST API design experience
- Relational database experience
- Automated testing experience
- Experience delivering containerized applications with Kubernetes and CI/CD
- Active use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code in daily development
- Experience with more than one payment processor or gateway
- Experience with OCI, AWS, or Azure
- Experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka
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The Company
What We Do
Salla is the leading commerce platform in the GCC, built in Saudi Arabia, providing tools and services for merchants to build, run, and grow their online stores.
