Technical Lead (Payments and Lending) - FinTech
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
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Lead the architecture, design, and development of Java-based microservices supporting payments, loans, and credit products
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Own end-to-end delivery of critical services including disbursements, repayments, interest calculations, fees, schedules, and reconciliations
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Drive API-first and event-driven architectures (REST, messaging, Kafka/RabbitMQ)
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Ensure high availability, scalability, security, and low latency for payment and lending flows
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Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and best practices
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Collaborate closely with product, risk, compliance, and operations teams to deliver regulatory-compliant solutions
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Enforce engineering standards around clean code, testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation
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Lead system integrations with payment gateways, card networks, core banking systems, credit bureaus, and third-party providers
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Support production systems, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive continuous improvement
Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong Java expertise (Java 8+)
- Proven experience building microservices-based systems using Spring Boot / Spring Cloud Hands-on experience in payments and/or lending domains, including: Payment processing, settlements, and reconciliation Loan origination, servicing, repayments, and interest calculations
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, and transactional consistency
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, etc.)
- Solid understanding of security concepts: OAuth2, JWT, encryption, PCI-DSS, data protection
- Experience working in Linux-based environments and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation
Required Skills:
Spring FinTech Messaging REST High Availability Kafka Gcp Operations RabbitMQ Protection Pipelines Compliance Calculations CI/CD NoSQL Loans Scalability Azure Redis Reviews Microservices Credit Spring Boot Architecture AWS Continuous Improvement Banking Availability Infrastructure Kubernetes Automation PostgreSQL Databases Payments Docker Security Documentation Testing MySQL Java Design Engineering Leadership