TL;DR

Lead Software Engineer (Fintech): Building and scaling high-performance financial systems handling hundreds of thousands of transactions per minute with an accent on CQRS architecture, database sharding, and real-time distributed systems. Focus on designing scalable APIs, ensuring system performance, and influencing business decisions in a hyper-growth fintech environment.

Company

%hirify_global% is a global fintech company with 65+ million customers, offering a wide range of financial products including spending, saving, investing, and exchanging money.

What you will do

Take full ownership of the financial domain from problem definition to implementation and maintenance
Decide on priorities and influence business decisions
Work on performance and scalability of a sharded, CQRS-based architecture
Develop simple, clear APIs encapsulating financial complexity for hundreds of services
Participate in company-wide projects onboarding new products and markets
Collaborate with Product and Finance teams as an advisor for new finance functionalities

Requirements

Fluency in English
8+ years of backend development experience
Fluency in Java
Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or similar
Expertise in designing and building high-performance, real-time distributed systems
Experience with database sharding, high-concurrency systems, CQRS, and event-driven architectures
Excellent communication and organizational skills

Nice to have

Experience in high-load processing environments, especially fintech
Experience with global, multi-regional deployment models
Startup or scale-up experience
Contributions to projects impacting entire organizations

Culture & Benefits

Certified Great Place to Work™ with a focus on employee experience
Inclusive and diverse multicultural team
Remote and office work options worldwide
Focus on innovation and meaningful impact