The Role
Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot. Ensure correctness, reliability, security, and performance under load; develop integrations and event-driven flows; write automated tests; maintain engineering standards; and mentor mid-level engineers. The role requires hands-on fintech and payment processor experience, strong microservices and REST API design, transactional integrity expertise, containerization, CI/CD, and daily use of AI coding tools.
Summary Generated by Built In
You design and build payment-critical backend services end to end on a modern Java stack, with a high bar for correctness, reliability and security.
What you'll do
- Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs on Java / Spring Boot.
- Ensure correctness and reliability under load.
- Build robust integrations and event-driven flows.
- Write thorough tests and help maintain high engineering standards.
- Mentor mid-level engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years in Java backend with Spring Boot.
- 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 and REST API design; relational databases.
- Solid grasp of transactional integrity and reliability.
- Containers / CI/CD and strong automated testing.
- 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); Kafka.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of Java backend development experience with Spring Boot
- Hands-on payments or fintech experience working on 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 and REST API design experience
- Experience with relational databases
- Strong understanding of transactional integrity and reliability
- Experience with containers, CI/CD, and automated testing
- Active use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code
- Experience with multiple payment processors or gateways
- Experience with OCI, AWS, or Azure
- Experience with 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.
