Backend Engineer - Operations Technology

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement financial products and features on top of Thought Machine Vault, translating product requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Build event-driven microservices and integrations to extend the functionality of our core banking platform.
• Develop and maintain high-quality, maintainable code using test-driven development (TDD) and strong engineering practices.
• Improve system reliability through comprehensive simulation, end-to-end and performance testing.
• Operate and support services in production, contributing to SRE processes, incident response, and continuous improvement of operational tooling.
• Deploy, run and manage containerised services using Kubernetes and Docker.
• Leverage AWS infrastructure and services to build elastic, secure and cost-effective solutions.
• Work with relational and object storage technologies (PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, S3) for persistence and data durability.
• Contribute to continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and processes.

Requirements

• Proficient in Kotlin and/or Java; strong command of the JVM ecosystem and idiomatic language use.
• Solid experience in back-end development, including building and operating microservices and designing reliable APIs.
• Practical experience with CI/CD practices and tooling (pipelines, automation, testing, deployment).
• Experience working with AWS services and cloud-native development patterns (preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, take ownership, and deliver results in ambiguous or fast-moving contexts.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, organisational skills, and attention to detail.