Senior Software Engineer (RCL)

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team and build reliable, scalable systems that power our lending and credit products. You’ll work on backend services, distributed systems, and data‑intensive applications with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and distributed systems.
• Develop reliable APIs and services that support lending and credit‑related products.
• Design, optimise, and maintain relational databases and data models.
• Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability bottlenecks.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical design discussions.
• Build systems with strong consideration for availability, fault tolerance, security, and data consistency.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, Risk, and other Engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions.
• Review code, provide technical guidance, and champion engineering best practices.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues.
• Improve system observability, monitoring, and overall operational reliability.
• Mentor other engineers and help foster a strong engineering culture.

Required profile

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend development expertise.
• Proven experience designing and building distributed systems and scalable backend applications.
• Background in lending, credit, fintech, payments, or a closely related financial domain.
• Strong understanding of relational database design, indexing, query optimisation, and performance tuning.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with service‑oriented or microservices architectures.
• Solid grasp of software engineering principles, system design, and data structures.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern development/deployment practices.
• Strong problem‑solving and debugging skills.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, and production software development.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, fast‑paced engineering environment.

Required skills

• Backend development
• Distributed systems
• Relational database design
• RESTful API design
• Microservices architecture
• Cloud infrastructure
• Automated testing
• CI/CD pipelines
• Performance tuning
• Debugging

What we offer

• Private health insurance
• Pension plan
• Training & development opportunities
• Remote work option
• Paid time off