MeDirect is a Maltese digital bank, founded in 2004, with over 180,000 clients and operations in Malta and Belgium. We offer a wide range of financial services to both retail and corporate clients, including daily banking, savings, and corporate services.
We are always on the lookout for driven and creative individuals who are eager to grow their career while helping us deliver cutting-edge digital banking experiences. At MeDirect, we encourage collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning, ensuring our people thrive in a dynamic environment.
Role Overview:
Reporting to the Team Lead – Software Development, the Senior Backend Developer (.NET) will join our Development Team and contribute to delivering best-in-class e-banking and e-wealth solutions. You will play a key role in building and maintaining scalable systems, driving technical excellence, and ensuring that our platforms meet the highest standards of security, performance, and reliability.
The selected candidate should be willing to relocate to the specified job location.
Duties and responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-level backend solutions using modern .NET technologies
- Write clean, testable, and efficient code following best practices and coding standards
- Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and contributing to higher-quality deliverables
- Contribute to the design and implementation of distributed, event-driven systems leveraging messaging technologies (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex production issues, working closely with other teams where required
- Keep documentation up-to-date for all technical solutions and processes
- Mentor junior developers, providing guidance, knowledge sharing, and support in their professional growth
- Participate in planning sessions, estimations, and contributing to technical decision-making
- Research and evaluate new technologies, proposing improvements and adopting tools that align with strategic objectives
- Assist in defining and enforcing development standards, patterns, and practices across the technology department.
- Ensure applications are optimized for performance, scalability, and security
- Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to implement CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud-native solutions
- Develop and execute unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure robustness and quality
- Build and maintain reusable libraries and core components to support scalable application development
Required knowledge, skills and experience:
- Solid knowledge of the latest .NET technologies (C#, .NET Core)
- Hands-on experience with multi-threading, concurrency, and caching (Redis)
- Experience with message queuing systems such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
- Familiarity with version control and collaboration tools such as GitLab (Gitflow), Jira, and Confluence
- A university degree or diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Ideally 6+ years of professional backend development experience
- Experience with distributed applications, microservices architecture, and RESTful APIs
- Substantial experience with SQL (Postgres, MS SQL and Oracle); knowledge of NoSQL databases is a plus
- Strong background in containerized application development and deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong experience with testing frameworks (NUnit, Moq) and test-driven development
Skills Required
- Solid knowledge of modern .NET technologies, including C# and .NET Core
- Hands-on experience with multithreading, concurrency, and Redis caching
- Experience with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
- Familiarity with GitLab, Gitflow, Jira, and Confluence
- University degree or diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Six or more years of professional backend development experience
- Experience with distributed applications, microservices architecture, and RESTful APIs
- Substantial SQL experience with PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases
- Strong containerized application development and deployment experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong experience with NUnit, Moq, and test-driven development
What We Do
MeDirect (formerly known as Mediterranean Bank) is a pan-European retail digital challenger bank, with two main lines of business: WealthTech and specialised mortgage lending. As a WealthTech, our aspiration is to democratise investing and disrupt the retail digital investment space by deploying a unique Wealth SuperApp offering one of the broadest range of online investment solutions to individual clients. We provide clients with autonomy, choice and guidance in the way they want to manage their money. Our SuperApp is also a one-stop-shop, catering to clients’ investment and everyday banking needs. All this with simplicity and an easy user experience. As a specialised mortgage lending platform, we carefully select the segments we operate in, with the goal of setting new standards of service for our customers and address, when relevant, underserved segments of the mortgage market in jurisdictions we operate in. With ca. 400 employees at Group level in aggregate, we are growing a world-class Tech platform in Malta to support our pan-European operations, currently in Belgium, the Netherlands and Malta. We compete for talent on an international level, with 25 different nationalities currently represented in the Group. Our work environment is fast paced and constantly changing while fostering a sense of teamwork and pride in participating in MeDirect’s exciting transformation journey. Headquartered in Malta, MeDirect has a subsidiary bank in Belgium, MeDirect Bank NV/SA. MeDirect is Malta’s third largest banking group in terms of total assets. It is a systemic bank in Malta, and its consolidated group is supervised under the Single Supervisory Mechanism by a Joint Supervisory Team including the European Central Bank, the Malta Financial Services Authority and the National Bank of Belgium.
